MANAA’s founding president Guy Aoki said in a statement that the late-night host has 'been an unrepentant repeat offender and still has a bizarre fixation with Asians eating dogs'
host, the organization references Leno's August appearance onand a racially insensitive joke he made regarding Koreans eating dog meat. While the joke was cut from the variety show's broadcast, it was included in a report about Gabrielle Union's
over the show's problematic workplace culture during production of season 14 . Union was dismissed after one season on the NBC show alongside fellow freshman judge Julianne Hough. MANAA’s founding president Guy Aoki shared in a statement that the organization asks for "NBC to end its business relationship" with Leno, as CNBC has also aired several seasons of "Media Action Network for Asian Americans has been well aware of Leno’s habit of making these jokes about 'man’s best friend,'" Aoki said in the statement.
Aoki continued that despite multiple meetings with NBC executives, including "admonishment from a high ranking NBC executive and two advertiser campaigns," Leno has "been an unrepentant repeat offender and still has a bizarre fixation with Asians eating dogs."advertisers. "Many Americans are unable to distinguish between persons of Korean heritage living in North Korea, South Korea or the U.S., or between Asians and Asian Americans generally," Aoki had written in 2012. "Therefore, when Mr. Leno jokes about North Koreans and the consumption of dogs and cats, he perpetuates a persistent belief held by many Americans that Asian Americans and Korean Americans are perpetual foreigners who bring their objectionable dining habits to the U.S...
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