Rosie Apologizes

Earlier today, I reported on Rosie O’Donnell’s offensive “ching, chong, ching” mocking of Chinese.

O’Donnell, a regular on the television talk show “The View,” apologized this morning for mocking spoken Chinese – following mounting protest from Asian Americans in the Bay Area and across the country.

“I’m sorry for people who were hurt,” O’Donnell said.

On Thursday, O’Donnell expressed surprise when she learned that some Asian Americans considered speaking in that kind of sing-song accent an insult as grave as calling a black person by the N-word. She sympathized with people who were teased for their language on the playground while they were growing up. Click here.

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