Responding to Adam Carolla

(Feel free to also email this to him at adam@adamcarolla.com. While
you're at it, cc Joel Hollander, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of CBS Radio, at joel.hollander@infinitybroadcasting.com)

Dear Adam:

I don't listen to your show so a boycott from me is probably not going
to cause you much pain. But six weeks after your infamous "Ching
Chong" broadcast, I finally got around to listening to the clip. And
let me tell you, what you did is ignorant and racist and demeaning and
stupid. As an Asian-American, I am offended by your spoof of the
Chinese language and by your incredulousness that there would be such
a thing as an Asian Excellence Awards. If you think you can have
success in New York and LA by making fun of Asians, you are just plain
dumb.

I am also troubled that you don't seem to realize how loaded the
phrase, "Ching Chong," is. It is an ethnic slur that takes us back
about 100 years and hearkens us back to so many shameful treatments of
Chinese and other Asian immigrants by other Americans throughout the
history of this nation. Consider, just to give one example, the
experience of author Mary Paik Lee, a Korean immigrant, who on her
first day of school was greeted with a nursery rhyme popular at the
time, sung by her classmates as they circled and hit her: "Ching Chong
Chinaman / Sitting on a wall / Along came a white man / And chopped
his head off."

Shame on you, Adam Carolla.