Chinese take-out and more in a MultiCultClassics Monologue…
• A group called Unity: Journalists of Color Inc. is not buying Rosie O’Donnell’s apology over mocking the Chinese language. The group’s president said O’Donnell’s response “really didn’t sound like an apology to me. … I think by allowing Rosie O’Donnell’s cheap jabs at Chinese Americans to go unchecked, then the network is essentially condoning racial and ethnic slurs.” O’Donnell probably wishes the critics would go away chop-chop.
• The female publisher who planned to release O.J. Simpson’s “If I Did It” book and TV interview has been fired. “Judith Regan’s employment with HarperCollins has been terminated effective immediately,” said HarperCollins CEO. “The REGAN publishing program and staff will continue as part of the HarperCollins General Books Group.” From an employment standpoint, it looks like Regan becomes another fatality at the hands of O.J.
• A New York subcontractor of Cablevision is facing a lawsuit for displaying a noose and joking about hanging Black employees. The employees charge their boss and a manager refused to remove the image after complaints. One employee claims the boss “said he put it there to hang anybody who would pass the gate. I was flabbergasted. … It’s just degrading, disrespectful.” As if we all needed another reason to hate cable companies.
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