Steve Harvey has finally come around to addressing his racist remarks about Asian men via his Twitter page.
“I offer my humblest apology for offending anyone, particularly those in the Asian community, last week,” Harvey wrote. “It was not my intention and the humor was not meant with any malice or disrespect whatsoever.”
Last week, social media erupted after the Angry Asian Man blog posted a video of Harvey joking and laughing at the idea that anyone could be attracted to Asian men.
While making fun of a book titled “How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men,” Harvey quipped, “I don’t even like Chinese food. It don’t stay with you no time … I don’t eat what I can’t pronounce.”
Last week, “The Steve Harvey Show” sent Buzzfeed News a similar apology, writing that the segment was merely comedy and that his jokes were “never meant to demean the Asian community and the show sincerely apologizes to anyone who was offended.”
Not only did the offensive incident upset Asian Pacific American lawmakers — five of whom wrote a letter denouncing Harvey’s comments and reminding him that Asian Americans “are not just another target for tasteless jokes on your show” — it sparked Eddie Huang, chef and writer of the book upon which the show “Fresh Off The Boat” is based, to pen an op-ed in The New York Times, where he detailed his own experience as someone who has suffered the stereotype that “women don’t want Asian men.”
