Twitter Reacts to Jay Leno's Apology for Decades of Racist Jokes About Asians

Jay Leno has issued an apology for a series of racist jokes he’s told for decades about Asians, but some aren’t buying it.  The former late night host’s apology came after a meeting with Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA) president Rob Chan, MANAA founding president Guy Aoki and vice president Lawrence Lim over zoom, after over 10 years of Aoki trying to secure a meeting with Leno to discuss his racist jokes.  Aoki said he initially appealed to Leno’s new employers at Fox, where he hosts the game show You Bet Your Life, offering them an ultimatum of firing the host or MANAA would approach sponsors to boycott the project.”At the time I did those jokes, I genuinely thought them to be harmless,” Leno said in a joint press release with Aoki, according to multiple reports. “I was making fun of our enemy North Korea, and like most jokes, there was a ring of truth to them.”  The comedian continued, “At the time, there was a prevailing attitude that some group is always complaining about something, so don’t worry about it. Whenever we received a complaint, there would be two sides to the discussion: Either ‘We need to deal…
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