ORIGINAL (FULL) Asians in The Library Ching Ching Ling Long Ting Tong Alexandra Wallace UCLA Student

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A UCLA student equipped with a dorm room in a student housing facility, a pushup bra, webcam and two minutes fifty-two seconds too much free time -- managed to ignite a "Kill the Beast" caliber Internet mob in a matter of hours on March 15th, 2011. \Wallace made the reputation-shattering decision to take her beef with "these hordes of Asian people that UCLA accepts into our school every year" public. The lowlights (pretty much the entire thing) are: "So we know that I'm not the most politically correct person, so don't take this offensively..." "If you're going to come to UCLA, then use American manners." "Seriously, without fail, you will always see old Asian people running around this apartment complex every weekend. That's what they do -- they don't teach their kids to fend for themselves." "You know what they don't also teach them? Is their manners. Which brings me to my next point: Hi. In America, we do not talk on our cell phones in the library! I swear, every five minutes I will be -- OK, not five minutes, say like, 15 minutes -- I'll be like deep into my studying, into my political-science theories and arguments and all that stuff, getting it all down, like typing away furiously, blah blah blah... and then all of a sudden, when I'm about to like, reach an epiphany -- over here from somewhere, 'OHHH! CHING CHONG LING LONG TING TONG? OHHH!'" "So being the polite nice American girl that my momma raised me to be, I kind of just gave him ... 'It's the library, like we're trying to study, thanks!' And then it's the same thing five minutes later. But it's somebody else, you know? I swear they're going through their whole families, just checking on everybody from the tsunami thing. ... Like, you seriously should go outside if you're going to do that." When an initial barrage of negative comments apparently made Wallace realize what she had gotten herself into, the UCLA blonde quickly pulled her rant off the Web - but not before numerous Asian advocate groups and viral video-sniffers had gotten a hold of it, re-posting and immortalizing her ditzy hate speech for the viewing pleasures of many more indignant comments to come. By that same Sunday night, "Asians at the Library" had been shared by tens of thousands of Facebook users and even made its way onto television news. Then there was the obligatory stream of online remixes of her racist rant, wringing the musicality of the "Ching Chong" bit for all it's worth. (Wallace appears to have removed her profile amid the controversy.) University spokesman Phil Hampton told the Daily Bruin last night that the video was "repugnant," and couldn't confirm if Wallace was actually enrolled at UCLA. Update, 7:30 p.m.: Wallace released the following statement to the Daily Bruin today: "Clearly the original video posted by me was inappropriate. I cannot explain what possessed me to approach the subject as I did, and if I could undo it, I would. I'd like to offer my apology to the entire UCLA campus. For those who cannot find it within them to accept my apology, I understand." Update (6 days later) March 25, 2011: Over the weekend Alexandra Wallace, the UCLA student that was ostracized after uploading a racist rant against Asians to YouTube shortly after the tsunami in Japan, apologized and announced that she would no longer be attending UCLA. Her apology, and the news of her leaving the school, was published in The Daily Bruin, UCLA's online news source. The full letter, as printed in The Daily Bruin, is as follows: "In an attempt to produce a humorous YouTube video, I have offended the UCLA community and the entire Asian culture. I am truly sorry for the hurtful words I said and the pain it caused to anyone who watched the video. Especially in the wake of the ongoing disaster in Japan, I would do anything to take back my insensitive words. I could write apology letters all day and night, but I know they wouldn't erase the video from your memory, nor would they act to reverse my inappropriate action. I made a mistake. My mistake, however, has lead to the harassment of my family, the publishing of my personal information, threats on my life, and being ostracized from an entire community. Accordingly, for personal safety reasons, I have chosen to no longer attend classes at UCLA. Alexandra Wallace"