On yesterday's episode of The View, Rosie O'Donnell thought it would be funny to perform an impersonation of what The View must sound like in Asia. Her bit went something like this, "Ching chong ching ching chong..."There's been relatively no press coverage of her offensive joke and the only reason I happened to find out about it is because Allen heard Guy Aoki (founder of MANAA: Media Action Network for Asian Americans) on the Adam Carolla morning show. You can hear a clip of Rosie's statements and Aoki's interview on the show's Website - just click on the "Guy Aoki" link.
Aoki makes a very good point that "ching chong" jokes are almost/as offensive as the n-word to Asians. It's obviously derogatory and really, for someone who is supposedly a champion of equality and anti-discrimination, it's very disappointing to hear Rosie O'Donnell resort to school-yard chants just to get some laughs. I believe she owes everyone, not just Asian Americans, an apology for her stupid, thoughtless comments.
5 comments:
I heard her next movie is called 'A Hoagie of Their Own'...
Woh, Rosie looks HUGE in this picture. HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE!
i'm SO glad that you're blogging about this... incidentally, she's apologized (sort of) on her blog see here - http://www.rosie.com/blog/sections/ask-ro/
there are a handful of questions about her conduct. i still think she needs to address her racist comments to her audience on the view. imho - it wasn't appropriate for her to do ching chong and it wasn't appropriate for her audience to laugh and applaud.
rosie's a fatty-fat-face.
Major fatty-fat-face.q
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