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13-Apr-22 World View -- Brooklyn subway shooter may have been targeting Asians

Analysis by NIH of black hate crimes against Asian American women

by John J. Xenakis

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Brooklyn subway shooter may have been targeting Asians
Analysis by NIH of black hate crimes against Asian American women

Brooklyn subway shooter may have been targeting Asians

Frank R. James, 62, person of interest in Brooklyn subway shooting (NYPD News)

Frank R. James, 62, person of interest in Brooklyn subway shooting (NYPD News)

Early on Tuesday morning, during rush-hour at a Brooklyn subway station, a man in a construction vest carrying a backpack reached into his backpack and donned a gas mask, then reached into his backpack and set off an explosive smoke canister, and then pulled out a gun and shot at least 16 people. All the injured people are recovering. The suspected shooter, Frank R. James, is the subject of a manhunt.

The incident took place in the Sunset Park neighborhood, predominantly home to Asian and Hispanic communities.

The suspect, Frank R. James, is a 62 year old black man.

The police have said that the motive is unknown, but the fact that the perpetrator is black and the target is an Asian neighborhood, means that this act of violence fits an increasingly familiar pattern -- black men targeting Asians, especially Asian women. Asian women have been attacked by blacks, whites and Hispanics, but the majority have been by blacks, according to a report by the National Institutes of Health.

Analysis by NIH of black hate crimes against Asian American women

In March of last year, there was a mass shooting of Asian women in Atlanta. The shooter was white, but it gave rise to questions about what was going on.

I wrote an article on the subject, based on a posting in January by the National Institutes of Health, which used data from the Department of Justice to "examine the nature and characteristics of hate crimes against Asian Americans." The report compared hate crimes against Asian Americans, African Americans, and Hispanics.

The following is an edited version of what I wrote in that article.

The most important finding of the report is that perpetrators of hate crimes against Asians are most likely to be blacks, for economic reasons. This is something that's been known anecdotally for a long time, but the NIH report confirms it. It's also clear that the writers of the NIH report don't want you to easily find this result, probably for fear that if they expose the truth, they'll get fired or canceled.

You have to go far into the report to find the results (search for "Table 3" or "Findings of this study, however, also provide support to the minority-specific model"), but the findings are clear:

Hate crimes against Asians are overwhelmingly done by blacks.
"Hate crimes against Asian Americans are more likely than hate crimes against either African Americans or Hispanics to be committed by non-White offenders."

Blacks may be motivated by their resentment of the success of Asians.
"This finding may be attributed to animosity toward the “model minority” from other minority groups. As aforementioned, the “model minority” stereotype assuming Asian Americans’ success in economics, education, and other opportunities generates potential competition or threats by members of other racial groups, which in turn may lead to resentment to be further acted upon through hate crimes."

Blacks may be motivated by fears that they'll lose their special privileges and financial welfare and other benefits because Asians will get the same benefits during downturns.
"Offenders of other minorities of color targeting Asian Americans might fit the category of “reactionists." ... Instead of acting impulsively, the “reactionists” are motivated by protecting their resources from competitors.... This finding might also lend indirect support to the perspective of racial competition motivating hate crimes, which argues that when members of a racial group perceive that their access and privileges to material resources are threatened by other racial groups during economic downturns, racial conflict and hate crimes may occur."

So now we return to Frank R. James, the 62 year old black "person of interest" in Tuesday's Brooklyn subway shooting. James is still at large, so we still can't be sure that he was actually the shooter, we still can't be sure whether he had help, and we still can't be sure what his motive was. We can imagine that James has built up 62 years of hatred and resentment against the American system, and against Asian Americans in particular, as suggested by the NIH report, but we may not know for sure for many days or weeks.

All we can say at this time is that we see a familiar pattern, which becomes worse every month, identified by the National Institutes of Health, of Asian American women being victims of hate crimes by blacks, and that problem still has to be recognized and solved, whether or not Frank R. James is Tuesday's shooter.

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