On May 8, 2:59 pm, "Chairman Mao says:"
prc.com> wrote:> Ain'tDiversitygreat?
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>> On May 7, 1:29 pm, "Chairman Mao says:"
prc.com> wrote:>>> You also need to mention in HK they must work too, no program to sit
>>> around
>>> and buy drugs and liquor
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>>> In the USA they get free housing, money and programs.
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>>> Look at Africa, that is the touch of the Black man.
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>>> Everything is destroyed in a few years it's genetic.
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>> Speaking of Hong Kong and American blacks, here's an interesting story
>> that I posted before. The circumstances surrounding the robbery are
>> really hilarious. One wonders what a Hong Kong family (Hong Kong is
>> ranked no. 2 in the world, after Japan, in net worth, by US exchange
>> rates) is doing in a black neighborhood.
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>> I guess this case may be considered "biting the hand that feeds".
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>> Excerpt:
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>> "She knew practically no other Asians her age, not even the ones from
>> other restaurants, but blended into the predominantly black
>> neighborhood." (?)
>> :
>> :
>> "But she was stunned to learn of his [i.e.guy charged with attempted
>> murder, assault, menacing and harassment] address, 210 Stuyvesant
>> Avenue, right around the corner from the restaurant. 'We deliver to
>> that address,' she said. 'Every single day.' " (??)
>> * * *
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>> January 20, 2007
>> Bedford-Stuyvesant Journal
>> An Unthinkable Crime, Until Someone Finally Thought of It
>> By MICHAEL WILSON
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>> Three crumpled dollars and two quarters, tugged from the pocket of a
>> puffy coat on a cold night, brings four hot chicken wings with French
>> fries or fried rice. The most expensive dish on the restaurant's menu
>> is No. 71, the lobster meat chow mein, at $8.95 a quart.
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>> The Happy House Chinese takeout restaurant in Bedford-Stuyvesant does
>> not feed the rich, or put on airs, and maybe that is why, in the seven
>> years it has fed its busy and occasionally even violent corner of
>> Malcolm X Boulevard, it was never robbed. Maybe the thought simply
>> never occurred to anyone. It would be like holding up one's own
>> kitchen.
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>> That all changed, twice, in recent weeks, in two vicious attacks on
>> the
>> restaurant's workers, two botched robberies that caused serious
>> injury and yielded no cash.
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>> Last month, the son of the owners, Man Seng Wong, 25, was beaten while
>> delivering $24 worth of food, and spent the night in the hospital, his
>> sister said. The young boys who hit him took the food, and there have
>> been no arrests.
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>> Then, last Saturday, during the generally calm lunch hours just after
>> 1:30 p.m., a man entered the Happy House and, when the newly hired
>> cashier - the first stranger the Wong family had ever taken on -
>> turned her back, he leaped over the counter and drew a pistol, the
>> police said.
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>> The woman screamed, and the man shot her in the face. Another shot
>> struck a relative of the Wongs by marriage, Hoy Wang, 37, piercing the
>> palm of his hand. The shooter fled without any money and, in a final
>> touch of carelessness, left behind his cellphone.
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>> There are four members - the parents, the son and the daughter - of
>> the Wong family of immigrants from Hong Kong. They live where they
>> work, in an apartment behind the Happy House. The attacks left them
>> feeling rattled and vulnerable in a part of the city where Chinese
>> restaurants - their steaming dishes in tin trays long a staple of
>> poor and working families - line Malcolm X Boulevard, but where few
>> Chinese people live.
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>> "They worry about it, especially my mother," said Gigi Wong, 19, on
>> Wednesday night, standing in the same spot behind the counter where
>> the
>> cashier was shot four days earlier. Closing the store, even for a
>> week,
>> was never an option. "They still have to do whatever they were doing
>> before. They're scared, but they still have to do it."
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>> Her parents moved to Queens from Hong Kong seven years ago. Ms. Wong
>> followed in 2001, and started working at Happy House herself a year or
>> two later, she said. The family spends most nights in the Brooklyn
>> apartment. She knew practically no other Asians her age, not even the
>> ones from other restaurants, but blended into the predominantly black
>> neighborhood.
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>> "I have a lot of black friends," Ms. Wong said. "From 7th grade
>> to 12th grade, I only went to black schools. I just switched to a
>> Chinese school to make some Chinese friends."
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>> Ms. Wong is quick to smile, remarkably cheerful several hours into a
>> 12-hour workday this week. "I know a lot of people, and a lot of
>> people know me, and they've got a lot of love for me," she said.
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>> Customers tell her they are glad she was not at work last Saturday,
>> but
>> she replies: "I wish I was here. It wouldn't have happened."
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>> A detective called the restaurant on Wednesday to speak to Ms. Wong.
>> He
>> needed her to translate something for her relative, shot in the hand.
>> She is the only member of the Wong family fluent in English.
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>> There are video cameras watching the counter all the time. The
>> monitors
>> are wrapped in clear plastic to keep them clean. Most of the other
>> Chinese restaurants nearby also have thick plexiglass shields between
>> the cashier and the customer, like a gas station or a liquor store,
>> but
>> not Happy House. Longtime customers, presumably the very people who
>> would be the most offended by beefed-up security, tell Ms. Wong they
>> need more.
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>> "They need, like, a partition here with a window," said a matronly
>> woman who gave only her first name, Lorna. "People are stupid. They
>> always kill the ones that help them."
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>> To Ms. Wong, she said, "If that was you they shot, I would have
>> cried."
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>> So new was the cashier that, after the shooting, no one in the Wong
>> family seemed to know her full name, only her last name, Lin. Before
>> the shooting, when Gigi Wong had tried to speak to her at work, they
>> would be constantly interrupted by customers.
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>> Later, through the police, the Wongs learned the cashier was named
>> Aizen Lin, 34, and tracked her first to the nearby Woodhull Medical
>> and
>> Mental Health Center and then to Bellevue Hospital Center in
>> Manhattan,
>> where she was in critical condition.
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>> Several nights this week, after closing the restaurant at midnight,
>> the
>> Wongs piled in their car to visit Ms. Lin. Half of her face is badly
>> swollen, and while she appears alert, Ms. Wong said, she cannot speak
>> with the tubes in her throat.
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>> "We went at 1 o'clock in the morning. My mother, my father and
>> me," she said on Thursday morning. "She still has the straw, the
>> plastic thing in her mouth. She saw, and she opened her eye. I said,
>> 'I came to see you,' that's all. I can't think of anything to
>> say."
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>> Ms. Wong's parents held Ms. Lin's hand. They stayed about 15
>> minutes, then drove back to Brooklyn.
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>> The police took the gunman's cellphone and managed to contact him,
>> pretending to be men willing to sell the phone back to him. It worked:
>> The suspect met officers at an arranged spot, and they arrested him,
>> the police said.
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>> The man, Raymond Wiliams, 21, was identified on the security video
>> tape
>> as the gunman leaping over the counter, according to a criminal
>> complaint filed in court. The police are looking for another man who
>> may have been involved, the complaint says.
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>> Mr. Williams has been charged with attempted murder, assault, menacing
>> and harassment, and remained in jail as of yesterday. He admitted he
>> leaped over the counter and fired two shots, according to the
>> complaint.
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>> Ms. Wong did not recognize his name.
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>> But she was stunned to learn of his address, 210 Stuyvesant Avenue,
>> right around the corner from the restaurant.
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>> "We deliver to that address," she said. "Every single day."
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>>> "RichAsianKid"
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>>>> On May 7, 12:00 am, "Chairman Mao says:"
prc.com> wrote:>>>>> "RichAsianKid"
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>>>>>> On May 6, 11:12 am, Prisoner at War
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>>>>>> wrote:>>>>>>> SHAME ON THE CHINESE!!!
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>>>>>>> Everything from SARS to pet food contamination to deadly fake
>>>>>>> medicine
>>>>>>> comes from China!
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>>>>>>> Chinatowns are so fucking dirty! Even the cleanest Chinese city
>>>>>>> (this
>>>>>>> includes Taipei) looks like an open sewer!
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>>>>>>> What's with all this SHIT about "5,000 years of glorious Chinese
>>>>>>> culture" all the time???
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>>>>>>> The people are short and skinny and seem to only know how to follow
>>>>>>> the rules and do as they're told or cut corners trying to make a
>>>>>>> buck.
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>>>>>>> Here's the latest outrage from that armpit of Asia:
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>>>>>>> EXCERPTS
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>>>>>>> The kidneys fail first. Then the central nervous system begins to
>>>>>>> misfire. Paralysis spreads, making breathing difficult, then often
>>>>>>> impossible without assistance. In the end, most victims die.
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>>>>>>> Many of them are children, poisoned at the hands of their
>>>>>>> unsuspecting
>>>>>>> parents.
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>>>>>>> ...
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>>>>>>> Toxic syrup has figured in at least eight mass poisonings around
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> world in the past two decades. Researchers estimate that thousands
>>>>>>> have died. In many cases, the precise origin of the poison has
>>>>>>> never
>>>>>>> been determined. But records and interviews show that in three of
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> last four cases it was made in China, a major source of counterfeit
>>>>>>> drugs.
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>>>>>>> Panama is the most recent victim. Last year, government officials
>>>>>>> there unwittingly mixed diethylene glycol into 260,000 bottles of
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