To: CNN and Situation Room
We are truly stunned and shocked by a recent racist and hatred remark on the Chinese people by your news commentator Jack Cafferty. In Situation Room aired on April 9th, Cafferty charged the Chinese people with a highly despicable assault by saying, "They (Chinese) are basically the same bunch goons and thugs they have been in the past fifty years." (http://trans.cnn.com/TRANS/0804/09/sitroom.03.html)
It's not common to witness such a blatant discrimination against an ethnic group of people with such a derogatory connotation in a national TV program. We believe his remark clearly exposed his hatred and bigotry against Chinese people as a whole. Without doubt, many people feel hurt, especially, the Chinese people, by this shameless assault.
Cafferty's hatred speech has been recorded and uploaded to Youtube. So far the click rate is approaching ten thousand. People from around the world have left comments condemning his vile remark.
As a leading organization of legal immigrants mainly comprised of people from China, we strongly condemn Jack Cafferty's racist remarks and urge CNN to take immediate action against him. We also demand an official apology from CNN to all Chinese people. We would reserve our right to take further actions on this matter.
Sincerely,
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BLITZER: One of the arguments that some of the pro-China elements is making,
Jack, is that this is a very different China today than existed 10 years
ago, certainly 20 or 30 years ago. This communist regime today is almost
like a capitalist regime. They're a huge economic superpower and that we
have a lot at stake in maintaining this economic relationship with China.
CAFFERTY: Well, I don't know if China is any different, but our relationship
with China is certainly different. We're in hawk to the Chinese up to our
eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing. They're holding hundreds
of billions of dollars worth of our paper. We also are running hundred of
billions of dollars worth of trade deficits with them, as we continue to
import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and
export, you know, jobs to places where you can pay workers a dollar a month
to turn out the stuff that we're buying from Wal-Mart.
So I think our relationship with China has certainly changed. I think they'
re basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50
years.
(LAUGHTER)
