距離弗洛伊德離世已過了近兩周，全美多地依然保持著大規模抗議活動，戰火甚至延伸到了白宮大門口。部分華裔商戶也無端遭到波及，被示威者打砸破壞。
與此同時，一位非裔議員卻在散布一系列歧視言論，他將矛頭對準了美國華裔群體。
他質疑市政府為什麼要給中餐館補貼，而不去支持黑人開的小餐館。「華人不需要賺錢，他們已經賺了很多了，而且他們從不僱傭黑人，也從不回饋社區。」
Paul Riddick from Ward 4 said Chinese restaurants "have been making money hand over fist," "don't give back," and COVID-19 aid would better serve black businesses.
非裔議員保羅·里迪克（資料圖）
據美國媒體13 News Now報導，當地時間6月2日，維吉尼亞州諾福克市市議會就如何開展新冠疫情救助計劃進行了討論，他們打算給每一家受到影響的華人商戶和拉美商戶提供補貼。
諾福克臨時發展主管賈里德·喬克(Jared Chalk) 說：「有一次我在外打電話時，親眼看到切薩皮克一家中餐館被襲擊了。」「我們開了員工會議，決定給諾福克的每一家中餐館打電話，確保他們知道我們將為他們提供一些幫助。」
As we were doing our outreach calls, there was a business in Chesapeake, a Chinese restaurant that was targeted," Chalk said. "We had our staff meeting and we decided that day, we were going to call every Chinese restaurant in Norfolk, and make sure that they know that we're here to help them.
然而，這個提議遭到了非裔議員保羅·里迪克（Paul Riddick）的質疑。「為什麼要聯繫中餐館的老闆？華人不需要任何錢了，他們已經賺了很多錢，現在也還在賺很多錢」，里迪克說道，「而且華人商戶從來不僱傭黑人，也從來不回饋社區。」
"Jared was talking about calling every Chinese restaurant in Norfolk? Chinese [restaurants] don't need any money," he said. "They're making money hand over fist, and they always have been. They don't hire blacks, and they don't give anything back to the community."
據維吉尼亞州諾福克市本地電視台「WVEC-TV」報導，當時一名叫湯米·史密吉爾（Tommy Smigiel）的議員立刻表示反對，稱自己有兩名華人學生，家裡就是開餐館的，他們受疫情影響很嚴重，理應得到幫助。
During the city council meeting Councilman Tommy Smigiel responded by saying "Mr.Riddick, I'm really upset with your comments that you made about Chinese families."
Smigiel told his own story about hard-working Chinese business owners."I have two Chinese students whose parents own Chinese restaurants in Norfolk that had to shut down their business because of comments our president made, and the racial threats they received at their restaurants," he said.
結果里迪克再次回擊，認為，這次之所以有大批黑人出來示威抗議，就是因為政府明明能幫助他們，卻什麼都不做。黑人的小生意孤立無援，但中餐館卻因有很多黑人顧客，在新冠疫情期間並沒有受到什麼影響。
"And you wonder why blacks burn down these cities, it's because we are in a position to help and we don't do anything, and this is what happens in Norfolk. We don't do anything to help the small black business," he said.
"It has nothing to do with prejudice. It only has to do with one thing, is that Chinese have made a lot of money enough at any majority of that money they've made off of black folks."
湯米·史密吉爾（Tommy Smigiel）議員告誡里迪克，貶低任何一種文化都是不公平的，尤其是現在這個階段，不要貶低任何一個群體。
Smigiel cautioned Riddick about "putting down" any group of people in the city during this time.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Riddick. I know what you are saying about our black community…but I don't believe that was fair for your judgment on our Chinese community in Norfolk, and I would be very careful of putting down any cultures in our city of Norfolk at this time."
里迪克承認，自己的話聽起來確實帶有種族主義色彩，卻依然堅持他的看法。「我並不是想讓它聽上去很『種族主義』，但我回過頭一想，好像確實有點『種族主義』。但是，中餐館確實不需要錢。」完了他又強調，自己不是種族主義者，因為他以前一直很支持華人社區發展。
"If I said that, I did not mean it to sound racist, but as I look back at it, it does sound racist… but Chinese restaurants don't need any money… I apologize if it sounds like that. It sounds racist, and as I think about it, it probably did sound racist," he said.
聽到這些話，一些美國網友也忍不住炮轟：現在大家都在為弗洛伊德反對種族主義，結果你卻搞起了種族主義？
這就是當白人制度使我們彼此對立時，黑人和亞洲人所陷入的陷阱。支持黑人的生活和企業並不意味著忽視其他少數群體，反之亦然。在實現平等方面，每個人都還有很大的空間。
「所有亞洲人都很富有」這種刻板印象是荒謬的。一個經營小餐館的移民家庭並沒有變得富有，這些生意是他們的生計。黑人企業當然需要支持。但這不能成為你粗暴對待其他少數群體的藉口。
議員里迪克應該為自己說這樣的種族主義胡話而感到羞恥。你們本質上是在大聲呼籲種族公正，同時又在貶低其他少數群體! #偽善 #為保羅？里迪克感到羞恥 #立馬道歉。
真的嗎? 他是誰？黑人版的川普?中國人工作很努力，並且他們為他們所在的社區繳納了他們應該繳納的稅款。
維吉尼亞州諾福克市的議員保羅·里迪克(第四區)，作為一個議員，你怎麼會有這種想法呢？這就好比說餐館不應該做黑人喜歡的食物，因為他們會從中賺很多錢。
在十多天的示威活動期間，一些無辜的華人商戶也遭到了波及，以加州奧克蘭為例，至少有70家華人經營的商店成為示威者無端攻擊的對象。
來源：中國日報