CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From SanrnFranciscornby Justin RaimondornThe Black War on AsiansrnWhile the media is focused on the allegedrnthreat of a few rural whiternsupremacists holed up somewhere inrnIdaho, black racism in the inner cities isrnon the rise. “Viet family flees bombrnthreat at project,” blared the headline inrnthe San Francisco Examiner on June 16.rnAlthough political correctness forbidsrneven its victims from naming it, blackrnracism, an organized and violent movementrngrowing in numbers and virulence,rnhas bubbled to the surface in San Francisco,rnwhere black gangs have targetedrnVietnamese residents of public housingrnprojects in a campaign of ethnic cleansing.rnSix Vietnamese families who hadrnthe temerity to move into the overwhelminglyrnblack Alice Griffith publicrnhousing unit (known as “Double Rock”)rnin San Francisco’s Bayview district werern— LIBERAL ARTS —rnI AM THE WAY . . .rn”Father Pat McNamara, a renegadernCatholic priest, charts the course tornfind God in the New Age areas ofrnchanneling, reincarnation, psychicrnsurgery, pyramids, and Native Americanrnspirituality.”rn—from an advertisement forrnBeauty and the Priestrn(Ozark Mountain Publishing)rnsubjected to beatings, harassment, andrnracial taunts, until they were finallyrnforced to run for their lives. One familyrnreturned home to a bomb threat recordedrnon their answering machine. Therncaller demanded that the family movernout and threatened to bomb their apartmentrnand kill the wife.rnPolice say this is part of a pattern ofrnhate crimes against Asians in the area:rnthe bomb threat occurred in the contextrnof another incident in which two Asianrnchildren were beaten and spray-paintedrnnear their home in the Bayview area. Policernsay that “an adult approached themrnand called them a racial name and spraypaintedrnthe front of the boy’s T-shirt.”rnTheir black assailant “roughed up” bothrnchildren, according to the Examiner, andrn”punched the girl in the face.”rnWhat is the Department of Housingrnand Urban Development (HUD), thernfederal agency that runs the projects, doingrnabout it? IIUD’s reaction to thisrnthreatened lynching by a mob of blackrnracists, incredibly enough, was to give inrnto the thugs’ demands.rnA few years ago, HUD bureaucrats decidedrnthat housing projects were to bern”integrated”—and called in federal lawrnenforcement agencies to implant a fewrnblack families in an all-white Arizonarnhousing project. HUD civil rights enforcerrnRoberta Achtenbcrg dispatched arnveritable army of federal agents to “desegregate”rnthe place, a la Little Rock, hirnthe case of Double Rock, however, insteadrnof calling in the troops, HUD officialsrnran up the white flag, pulled thernVietnamese out, and put them up in arnhotel.rnThe black gangs that control thernneighborhood drug trade have been carryingrnout a systematic terror campaignrnagainst Asians in San Francisco publicrnhousing for years—this is not the firstrntime Asians have been driven out of thernprojects by militant black racists—butrnthe Clinton administration has justrndeigned to notice. HUD has promisedrnto beef up security, install better lighting,rnand hire bilingual personnel. HUD undersecretaryrnAndrew Cuomo promisedrnan “investigation.” Let him start byrnprobing the pernicious and inflammatoryrnrole of his own ageircy, which has sornfar not only whitewashed the ethnicrncleansing of Double Rock but has beenrncomplicit in the victimization of thernVietnamese.rnLocal HUD officials have, for example,rnlaunched a smear campaign againstrnthe victims. Acting Housing Authorityrndirector Ronnie Davis, echoing the opinionsrnof some black residents of DoublernRock, accused the Vietnamese familiesrnof concocting the stories about assaultsrnin order to obtain coveted Section 8rnhousing. (Public housing residents canrntransfer out of the prison-like crime-riddenrnprojects and be given vouchers acceptedrnby some private landlords.) AnotherrnHousing Authority official chimedrnin: “I have learned that there are peoplernwho will do anything for a Section 8 certificate.”rnThese government apologistsrnfor black racism and terrorism have takenrnup the cry of the largely black residents ofrnDouble Rock, who are up in arms overrnthe fact that the Vietnamese have beenrnput to the front of a long waiting list forrnthe certificates. The legitimacy of therncomplaint that native-born Americanrnblacks are being pushed to the back ofrnthe line by immigrants is vitiated by thernfact that public housing in San Francisco’srnChinatown is orderly, clean, and relativelyrncrime-free. It is not Asians whornhave turned Double Rock into an urbanrnbattleground.rnwhile Cuomo II conducts his leisurelyrn”investigation,” and Mayor WilliernBrown convenes a “task force,” an organizedrnnetwork of criminal gangs with anrnexplicitly racist political agenda is on thernattack in the streets of San Francisco. Ifrnthis were a gang of white supremacists,rnthe armed fist of the federal governmentrnwould have come crashing down onrnthem without delay or mercy. Blackrnracists, however, are immune to suchrntreatment; not only do they enjoy specialrnexemption from condemnation, butrnthey are actively protected and defendedrnby sympathetic government officials.rnAnd lest anyone think these thugs arernnot practicing equal opportunity terrorism,rntwo Iraqi families at Double Rockrnfaced the same violently hostile receptionrnand were driven out. These GulfrnWar refugees, who had risen up againstrnSaddam Hussein, fled to the UnitedrnStates when the rebellion was crushed—rnonly to face a different kind of war. Itrn34/CHRONICLESrnrnrn