Just so I am following, is the argument that because some blacks are based against API folks, that it invalidates the fact that white folks destroyed black lives and opportunities for a long time via slavery? And that their claims are somehow fabricated or disingenuous?

This is a serious question so I can better understand this convo.

DB Roy wrote:. . . The correct question should be "Is there a sizable portion of blacks who have enmity for API people?" The answer is yes. And, yes, there are a lot of API people who don't like blacks but they aren't beating up blacks in the streets. .

These are very broad generalizations, of course, and so my comment is necessarily speculative and a tangent to boot. But if it's true that blacks resent Asians, it could be explained in terms of rivalries in America's caste system. Isabelle Wilkerson calls this "crabs in a barrel." 'That there's much jockeying for position in America because no one wants to be on the bottom.

Wilkerson wrote:The caste system thrives on dissension and inequality, envy and false rivalries, that build up in a world of perceived scarcity. As people elbow for position, the greatest tensions arise between those adjacent to one another, up and down the ladder. . . . These behaviors unwittingly work to maintain the hierarchy that those betraying their brethren are seeking to escape.

This is not to excuse any behavior of one group trying too put down another. But it could be that Asian-Pacificans are seen as trying to cut in line in terms of their acceptance in America. Such attitudes can be seen as a symptom of racial inequality and the hundreds of invisible social cues that serve to maintain the caste system in America.