Should Chinatowns in America be torn down?

[yuiyoshida]

99. The discussion in Youtube

was originally over that video of the black woman saying crap about Chinatown on the tour bus. She eventually said it was a joke, but if she is a comedian, she needs to work on her funny rants, because the community didn't think it was funny at all.

If you scanned down to the comments, one Poster said, well there shouldn't be a Chinatown at all and How dare the Chinese community have their own little place to call their own. I jumped in and told this right winger, the history of why there were Chinatowns in the first place. I mentioned after Americans had dragged Chinese over to America to build their railroads, that after completion they were told, okay, now GTFO!

Chinese people were run out of many places.. told to go back to China. But they tried to set up their businesses and such, but like in Santa Barbara, arsonists burned them down and forced them to flee. San Francisco and Los Angeles were places of destination, where they finally could live together as a group and strive for the American dream.

The Rightwinger said it was all bullshit and well, like the original OP says, they were just making excuses for having one. When a Rightwinger is asked what's the Capital of the USA and replies
New York City, you can bet they are ignorant in the History of Asians being in America.