His advice is not about taking sides its about using them against each other to promote our interests. Similar to how pinks and other xms try to incite conflicts and division in our communities for their own gain. Why not do the same thing against them? The only way to gain respect and actually get things done and change things to our favor is to have enough power and influence which will give others a reason to give us that respect. Every other group of people is doing this behind the scenes, but not asians specifically asians in the west who seem to be fully and naively absorbed and engrossed into either side of the camp and doing the bidding of xms