On March 11, 2011, the same day the tsunami hit Japan, the Asian community exploded with fury at a racist video blog posted by an alleged student at UCLA titled “Asians in the Library.” Alexandra Wallace mocked the “hordes of Asians” swarming to the UCLA library and mocking them for talking on the phone in the library. She mocks these students by imitating Asian languages in a derogatory manner saying, “Ohhhh! Ching chong ling long ting tong!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7XAJo3rQn8
On the day the tsunami hit Japan and without an ounce of sensitivity, she states that if the Asian students want to check if their families in Japan are still alive, they need to do it outside. After the video was posted on YouTube, she received many threats and took the video off of her account immediately. It was, however, too late, because the video had already spread through the viral world creating fumes of anger in Asians and their friends. She sought police protection after these threats.
The school’s chancellor, Gene Block, called the incident “a sad day for UCLA,” but had previously told the presses that no one at UCLA is registered under the name Alexandra Wallace and that none of the UCLA staff knows who the person in the video is. This was clearly to protect Wallace from the overwhelmingly angry members of the Asian-American population and their friends. This was done most likely to protect her identity. However, should she be protected, or should she face the consequences for posting such a racist monologue? Wallace apologized for the video in a letter to the campus newspaper on Monday March 14, 2011, stating:
“Clearly the original video posted by me was inappropriate. I cannot explain what possessed me to approach the subject as I did, and if I could undo it, I would. I’d like to offer my apology to the entire UCLA campus. For those who cannot find it within them to accept my apology, I understand.”
After receiving many angry YouTube video responses, phone calls, emails and other forms of threats, she sought police protection. In such an advanced society, it is obvious that people are still not past the issue of racism.
UCLA Responds To Alexandra Wallace:
After the backlash of her rant—Wallace deleted her Facebook profile, shut down all social media accounts connected to her name and removed herself from UCLA’s directory.
22 March 2011–
Though her actions were offensive and uncalled for. UCLA decided not to discipline the “hate speech,” as described by some, Wallace gave in her video.
Wallace voluntarily left UCLA in order to protect herself and her family from the continual harassment they are still enduring.
Her actions were wrong, HOWEVER–
Do you think Wallace should have been forced out of a school like UCLA just to protect herself and her family?
At a loss for words. Everything about this is sickening. ‘Tsunami-thing’? And if she thinks she is representative of, ‘good American manners/values’, please, choke me now.
Seriously who cares? Americans are fuckheads in general including Viet-Americans
don’t hide behind initials you coward. post a video with that statement and see what happens moron.
http://blog.angryasianman.com/2011/03/no-more-ching-chong-ling-long-ting-tong.html
Though her actions were offensive and uncalled for. UCLA decided not to discipline the “hate speech,” as described by some, Wallace gave in her video.
Wallace voluntarily left UCLA in order to protect herself and her family from the continual harassment they are still enduring.
Her actions were wrong, HOWEVER–
Do you think Wallace should have been forced out of a school like UCLA just to protect herself and her family?
Hmmm… let’s see:
A person posts an ignorant video a few hours after a devastating incident that claimed the lives of 20K people, does a piss-poor job of trying to disguise it as “humor”, offers a half-hearted (fake) apology and then voluntarily leaves school because of threats to her and her family.
She wasn’t forced out, she left because she couldn’t take the heat from the firestorm she started.
Really, what the frig did she think would happen??!! Is it wrong for it to happen? If you yell “fire” in a over-packed nightclub with one exit is it wrong for folks to get trampled in the doorway. It’s not “wrong” it’s EXPECTED.
If she attended KKK University in Buttfloss, Mississippi she’d still be there and we wouldn’t be having this discussion because that is what is EXPECTED from ignorant people, but to say it while at a school that racially mixed and hopefully more intelligent… well, she gets no sympathy from me.
Put it this way: Suppose there was a 9.0 quake off the coast of Catalina and a 50 ft. tsunami takes out the entire Westside. If some Japanese (or any other foreign national) said, “Jeez… so they had some big “tsunami-thing”, they’re all probably out surfing in it anyway so stop disturbing me with your phone calls”, we’d be just as offended as people here are.
When you look at it that way, I think she’s getting off pretty easy. I know when 9/11 happened and I saw celebrations in the streets of Iraq and Iran it was hard for me not to say, “Push the button, nuke ’em till they glow then shoot ’em in the dark”.