{"id":36014,"date":"2013-11-11T02:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=36014"},"modified":"2013-11-11T02:22:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T06:22:20","slug":"when-will-white-house-respond-to-jimmy-kimmels-racism-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=36014","title":{"rendered":"When Will White House Respond to Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s Racism Petition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 16, Jimmy Kimmel aired a segment of his Kids Table, where he asked young kids how the U.S. could solve the $1.3\u2009trillion trade imbalance with China. \u201cKill everyone in China,\u201d answered one laughing 6-year-old. Since then thousands of protesters targeted ABC Studios in Burbank, Houston, Phoenix, and New York to ask ABC for a public apology.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/jimmykimmel.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[36014]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36015\" title=\"jimmy kimmel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/jimmykimmel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some viewers were so upset that they took their anger to the <a href=\"http:\/\/petitions.whitehouse.gov\/petition\/investigate-jimmy-kimmel-kids-table-government-shutdown-show-abc-network\/tLxzbBjg\" target=\"_blank\">White House\u2019s \u201cWe the People\u201d<\/a> online initiative urged <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a> to stop racism against the Chinese and fire <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jimmykimmel\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>, and just within three weeks, the petition created by H.Z. has reached 100,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama won\u2019t be calling a press conference but the White House will post an online response about the petition.\u00a0 The question is when and what will White House respond regarding what ABC aired?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 16, Jimmy Kimmel aired a segment of his Kids Table, where he asked young kids how the U.S. could solve the $1.3\u2009trillion trade imbalance with China. \u201cKill everyone in China,\u201d answered one laughing 6-year-old. Since then thousands of protesters targeted ABC Studios in Burbank, Houston, Phoenix, and New York to ask ABC for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-up-to-date-news-on-everything-asian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36017,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36014\/revisions\/36017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}