“现在大家都在为弗洛伊德反对种族主义，结果你却搞起了种族主义？”
距离弗洛伊德离世已过了近两周，全美多地依然保持着大规模抗议活动，战火甚至延伸到了白宫大门口。部分华裔商户也无端遭到波及，被示威者打砸破坏。
与此同时，一位非裔议员却在散布一系列歧视言论，他将矛头对准了美国华裔群体。
他质疑市政府为什么要给中餐馆补贴，而不去支持黑人开的小餐馆。“华人不需要赚钱，他们已经赚了很多了，而且他们从不雇佣黑人，也从不回馈社区。”
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.
非裔议员保罗·里迪克（资料图）
据美国媒体13 News Now报道，当地时间6月2日，弗吉尼亚州诺福克市市议会就如何开展新冠疫情救助计划进行了讨论，他们打算给每一家受到影响的华人商户和拉美商户提供补贴。
诺福克临时发展主管贾里德·乔克(Jared Chalk) 说：“有一次我在外打电话时，亲眼看到切萨皮克一家中餐馆被袭击了。”“我们开了员工会议，决定给诺福克的每一家中餐馆打电话，确保他们知道我们将为他们提供一些帮助。”
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，这个提议遭到了非裔议员保罗·里迪克（Paul Riddick）的质疑。“为什么要联系中餐馆的老板？华人不需要任何钱了，他们已经赚了很多钱，现在也还在赚很多钱”，里迪克说道，“而且华人商户从来不雇佣黑人，也从来不回馈社区。”
"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."
据弗吉尼亚州诺福克市本地电视台“WVEC-TV”报道，当时一名叫汤米·史密吉尔（Tommy Smigiel）的议员立刻表示反对，称自己有两名华人学生，家里就是开餐馆的，他们受疫情影响很严重，理应得到帮助。
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.
结果里迪克再次回击，认为，这次之所以有大批黑人出来示威抗议，就是因为政府明明能帮助他们，却什么都不做。黑人的小生意孤立无援，但中餐馆却因有很多黑人顾客，在新冠疫情期间并没有受到什么影响。
"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."
汤米·史密吉尔（Tommy Smigiel）议员告诫里迪克，贬低任何一种文化都是不公平的，尤其是现在这个阶段，不要贬低任何一个群体。
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."
里迪克承认，自己的话听起来确实带有种族主义色彩，却依然坚持他的看法。“我并不是想让它听上去很‘种族主义’，但我回过头一想，好像确实有点‘种族主义’。但是，中餐馆确实不需要钱。”完了他又强调，自己不是种族主义者，因为他以前一直很支持华人社区发展。
"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.
听到这些话，一些美国网友也忍不住炮轰：现在大家都在为弗洛伊德反对种族主义，结果你却搞起了种族主义？
这就是当白人制度使我们彼此对立时，黑人和亚洲人所陷入的陷阱。支持黑人的生活和企业并不意味着忽视其他少数群体，反之亦然。在实现平等方面，每个人都还有很大的空间。
“所有亚洲人都很富有”这种刻板印象是荒谬的。一个经营小餐馆的移民家庭并没有变得富有，这些生意是他们的生计。黑人企业当然需要支持。但这不能成为你粗暴对待其他少数群体的借口。
议员里迪克应该为自己说这样的种族主义胡话而感到羞耻。你们本质上是在大声呼吁种族公正，同时又在贬低其他少数群体! #伪善 #为保罗？里迪克感到羞耻 #立马道歉。
真的吗? 他是谁？黑人版的特朗普?中国人工作很努力，并且他们为他们所在的社区缴纳了他们应该缴纳的税款。
弗吉尼亚州诺福克市的议员保罗·里迪克(第四区)，作为一个议员，你怎么会有这种想法呢？这就好比说餐馆不应该做黑人喜欢的食物，因为他们会从中赚很多钱。
在十多天的示威活动期间，一些无辜的华人商户也遭到了波及，以加州奥克兰为例，至少有70家华人经营的商店成为示威者无端攻击的对象。
