(Originally posted in 2021)

In Book Five, Escape, I wrote the scene of Eric Wong and the Colonel before learning about these attacks. In retrospect, these attacks make the scene even more poignant. Eric would know about these attacks in what would be for his timeline the recent past.

On a personal note, all but one bloodline of my great grandparents were immigrants from Europe. The other bloodline was during the Irish Potato Famine with my great great grandparents. They all faced a lot of discrimination, hatred, and stereotypes. All those who share my heritage, please remember what our recent ancestors went through. I sympathize, through my ancestors’ blood running through my heart, with other immigrants who are facing these things today. They simply want opportunity.

Please, note, these attacks were barely covered by American national news while they went manic over BLM. Asian Americans are another invisible people.

I have known many Asian Americans. I observed the same basic immigrant mentality my grandparents displayed. They annoyed everyone with this behavior. Keep your head down and work hard. It is not something normal to then bemoan a plight of repression and discrimination. It is shaming, actually. However, being invisible and needing help, Asian American celebrities had to resort to this. It is the only way to get media attention, frankly. The media wants victims. They are not interested in proud peoples who are being attacked on the streets. Asian Americans want it to stop because it should stop.

In the olden days, if our elders were attacked in our neighborhoods, men would have confronted the attackers immediately. They would have given them an ass kicking. Possibly, some women would have joined in with those handbags. Additionally, the mafia’s presence. The mafia did more in policing the neighborhoods of poor, invisible, heavily discriminated against ethnic European Americans. They kept the streets safe. They did more than the police ever did, except when it was the police doing the attacking.

Further, though I hate to point this out, there are black Americans doing the attacking, too. If the national media did cover this in that hyper-manic way they do, they would censor that out. It does not fit the model they use, which is not People are People and Do as People Do. They have designated victims and perpetrators of racism and discrimination. Regardless of the circumstances, the media does not waver in this model. This is true even when real life gets messy. I point this out as a reminder. Those who have faced bigotry, discrimination, and repression may well do it to someone else. Remember this for the 170 years of Irish American history and the centuries of generational historic trauma for the Irish. Anger and hatred begets anger and hatred. No one is above it except strong minded individuals who seek enlightenment.