Omg, this is like old news. Like two-ish years ago that it happened and mannnnn....was it controversial. Even today, people still bring it up once in a while but it's gotten better, I hope.
It was in the news for a while after it happened and it was kinda weird cause us hmongs werent sure of how the meekas were looking at us......like...do they hate us now? do they think we're all killers? or wat? But o well, people are different (as in there are good people and bad people) and its just plain stupidity when people (meeka) started putting the blame on the whole hmong ethnicity. Just because ONE hmong person shot some meeka people (which is totally wrong nevertheless), they were bashing on us saying that we shouldnt be allowed to have guns/go hunting and that we (as hmongs as a whole) are just evil. Pshhh. It was just ONE PERSON, and that could've been anyone! A white person, a black person, a native american, another minority, just anyone. But yea. And there were even bumper stickers that said "Save a deer, shoot a Hmong" and people actually put it on their bumper. That just made me mad. It's just exactly the same as if we were to say "Save nature, throw away white trash". People are soo ignorant.
It is wrong for Chai Vang to have killed those people and I dont agree with it at all, but white people didnt have to go to that extreme in blaming the Hmongs as a whole and with the bumper stickers. There are lots more killings that comes out in the news about white people killing each other, burying bodies in the backyard and whatnot. But I dont wanna be racially explaining this. All in all, people kill and thats wrong. And with the article, and just the whole situation I am still a little iffy on the whole thing cause it doesnt make sense at all. There were like 8-10 people against just one person, and people (just in general) dont start shooting at a shitload of bodies unless they're really provoked. Alot of articles that came out made Chai to be some sort of evil guy and the others to be totally innocent. But it just doesnt make sense. Why would he shoot if he wasnt provoked, right? Unless, he's some sort of freak or is mentally impaired.
But nowadays, I would say it's getting a little better. Where I live (thats somewhere in Wisconsin) we've set up classes where Hmong people who wants to go hunting can come and learn about the rules and whatnot because alot of times they dont know the rules, especially the new refugees. Actually, they started doing that right after the Chai Vang incident.
What pissed me off was that some meeka people are soo errr. Last year when our Hmong Club at my university was doing our eggroll sale, somebody wrote "Save a deer, Shoot a Hmong" on one of our flier. Those bastards. They should know better.
Sorry for talking so long, didnt mean to.
