A LETTER FROM THE EDITORS

WHEN Kenneth Eng’s race-baiting Improvised Explosive Device blew up two weeks ago, we never thought the flak would fly as far as it did. Why were people taking this guy seriously? Come on, he’s a two-bit, punkass, bomb-throwing, soapbox rabblerouser who’s not even fit to carry Ann Coulter’s makeup case.

His AsianWeek column “Why I Hate Blacks” was basically a stunt by a so-called Asian supremacist, a 400-word thought bubble for a cartoon figure, an anti-social 22-year-old scifi/fantasy writer—who loves plush toys (especially “Dennagon, my dragon plushie”)—who calls himself “God of the Universe” (God, for short) and really should be under psychiatric care. Did black-and-white America really want to believe that this guy voiced some kind of seething, latent racism in the Asian American community? Apparently so.

This week, Mr. Kenneth C. Eng appeared on Fox TV (accompanied onscreen by the words “OVERTLY RACIST” in large text). He then proceeded to plug his cyborg technodragons book apropos of NOTHING and embarrassing the frak out of sci-fi geeks everywhere. Really unforgivable!

As if that wasn’t bad enough, he repeated his racist views, managing to make Fox viewers feel high-minded. Okay, enough is enough. Everybody can stop feeling so superior now. Feeling superior is what brought us to this point. Being a “supremacist” was actually something this guy aspired to—which only made us pity the fool because he’s really not a very good supremacist. (See above.)

Here’s the funny part. As we took a closer look at his other writings (his other cries for help), we discovered that he had the same kind of vitriol and megalomania in common with the other most despised figures in recent history—the white, black, brown and religious varieties. In other words, deranged minds think a like! So much so that sometimes we couldn’t tell their writings apart.

Can you? See how you score on TMM’s “Name that Supremacist” Quiz. •