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Scams hurt Uribe’s re-election effort in Colombia On racism in USA, reply to J. Fuerte This is about the letter of Juantio T. Fuerte (November 30, 2008) about my comment on PRC-US relations. My letter was about the points Mr. Rene Bas has been making in his Enthusiasms and Forebodings column and the editorial of November 27 "China can—and must—aid America." First, I must tell Mr. Fuerte that I, too, am an American like him. I happen to live in Hong Kong because I work here. I voted for Barack Obama. I can see that despite Barack's bad words about China in the past, he now realizes that he has to improve the way President Bush and his men have handled relationships with China, Japan and Korea. Mr. Forte should read Niall Fergu-son's works. He should pay attention to what people have written before venting his spleen against their views. He obviously did not give any importance to my point that MANY (not all) in the American population, despite Abe Lincoln, the US Civil War, Medgar Evers, etcetera, for a long time would not give black Americans their full human rights and the power to exercise suffrage even when there were already laws giving them the vote. That is nothing else but anti-black racism. But they eventually changed. They showed that they had surmounted their racial prejudice by electing Barack Obama. He did not win a popular vote landslide, though. His landslide is in the electoral college votes. Mr. Fuerte should read my letter more carefully to understand my point and see that I am hopeful that in the end those Americans who now have racist feelings towards slant-eyed Asians would lose their prejudice just as today MOST Americans have lost their racism against blacks. Another point. Fuerte tries to prove that because America, my and his country, has been engaged in a partnership with slant-eyed Japanese and South Koreans therefore it is not true as I have observed that MANY Americans (I did not say ALL Americans, I did not include such Americans as myself and maybe Mr. Fuerte) are racist towards slant-eyed people. Fuerte obviously does not know that the USA has betrayed its partnership with Japan and South Korea many times. The latest instance was when President Bush unilaterally removed North Korea from the list of terrorist states, against Japan's and S. Korea's wishes. Joachim Prosper Hong Kong
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