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Rosie O'Donnell says she's sorry for mocking spoken Chinese on "The View," but an association that represents journalists from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, including Chinese American, says it wasn't enough. In a Dec. 5 segment, O'Donnell joked about how Danny DeVito's recent and seemingly drunken appearance on the ABC daytime talk show had become international news. "You know, you can imagine in China it's like `ching chong, ching chong chong, Danny DeVito, ching chong chong chong, drunk, "The View," ching chong,'" the 44-year-old comedian said.

Hey Rosie! It ain’t funny no more By John David Powell It is encouraging to see that someone is challenging Rosie O’Donnell’s racial slurs. What is not encouraging, however, is the small amount of attention her racism received in the mainstream media. Given the lack of public outrage, one would surmise that it is never okay to use the N word, but it is open season for the C word, especially if said on national television. Here is what happened. Actor Danny DeVito recently made the rounds of talk shows to promote his new movie. His apparent drunken state was...

can't say I saw everything that the TV newscasters pumped out about Katrina, but I viewed enough repeated segments to say with 90 percent confidence that broadcasters covering the New Orleans end of the disaster demurred from mentioning two topics that must have occurred to every sentient viewer: race and class. Nearly every rescued person, temporary resident of the Superdome, looter, or loiterer on the high ground of the freeway I saw on TV was African-American. And from the look of it, they weren't wealthy residents of the Garden District. This storm appears to have hurt blacks more directly than...