People will take any opportunity to strip individual behavior of single minority person and stamp that to the people as a whole.

YouTube commentators on this immediately took sides, revealing percepts teeming with racism, prejudices and hate towards each group being erroneously represented. It’s as if decades of resentment and pent up hate finally became justifiable and palpable with a single act of individual injudicious predilection.

As the girl in the video separating the two who naively and pedantically declares the act as immature demonstrates, this is not about taking sides or constructing an otherwise secret war between the Chinese American and Black population in America. While they are the two polarities of minority classification and group, one taking up 17% of the Ivy League and the other less than 2%, they also have polar histories and heritages. Each has nothing to do with the plight of the other, one having been here for over four hundred years and the other, officially as a discernible group for about a hundred. Therein, however, lies the unificatory commonality, each has a plight. Each Asian American and African American has more in common with each other, than with a person in their respective continental origin land so this is not an issue of race, rather one of nationality. I understand that this video deals with an immigrant and an American, but the comments may have come from more Americans than not.

The purpose of this blog post is simply to dissuade people from being goaded into thinking this is a race issue pertinent to America. Immigrants will always feel antipathy towards other groups and will bring over pre-conceived notions of different races, it’s the nature of immigration and part of the eventual integration process. However, the commentators seem to want to create a racial schism rooted in their innate prejudices.

Anyway, just wanted to comment on YoutTube comments on a rainy Tuesday evening. Gotta love YouTube comments.