Alexandra Wallace, UCLA Student, Films Racist Rant

UPDATE: Wallace issued an apology Monday, saying "I cannot explain what possessed me to approach the subject as I did, and if I could undo it, I would." See more here.

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Self-identified UCLA student Alexandra Wallace has gained national notoriety -- and more than 1,000,000 views -- for posting a YouTube video which shows her in a 3-minute long tirade against Asian students.

In the clip, called "Asians in the Library," Wallace says the "hordes of Asians" at UCLA lack American manners. She also mocks their speech and faults them for calling family in the wake of the tsunami. "I swear they're going through their whole families just checking on everybody from the tsunami thing," she said.

She continues:

All the Asian people that live in all the apartments around me...and everybody that they know that they brought along from Asia with them comes here on the weekends to do their laundry, buy their groceries, and cook their food for the week.

It's 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...

Hi. In America we do not talk on our cell phones in the library...I'll be typing away furiously, blah blah blah, and then all of the sudden, when I'm about to, like, reach an epiphany, over here from somewhere, 'OHH Ching chong ling long ting tong? OHH'

She concludes the video by saying that "even if you're not Asian you really shouldn't be on your cell phone in the library." How diplomatic.

The Daily Bruin reports that university spokesman Phil Hampton called the video repugnant, and added that the student is inquiring into whether Wallace is enrolled as a student.

Check out Wallace's vitriolic rant in full below. Share your thoughts in the comments section.

Comments

[Quinn-san]

12:12 PM on 05/12/2011

i have to say, i was disgusted by the way she stereotyped Asians. We have better manners overseas than America will ever have.
By the way I'm Chinese.

[Sara Lamsondouglas]

12:54 PM on 04/07/2011

hahaha sadly, i went to high school with her, and she was in my graduating class. On a better note, we never spoke.

[Knock Off King]

08:30 PM on 03/29/2011

Buy some funny T-shirts to help the TSUNAMI RELIEF in JAPAN; especially if you're a Asian from UCLA with a sense of humor. Just let your T-shirt do all the trash talking for you; spread the LOVE!

http://uclareject.spreadshirt.com/

[Cheryl Aguilar]

07:10 PM on 03/27/2011

Ah, nope. Sorry. It's on the web. Doesn't matter if she apologized. She came out as a racist - no one is going to forget that. Apology not accepted.

[DrMarc Lamantia]

11:53 PM on 04/23/2011

Well asians are racist too, so i guess we can call it even. You all hipocrites, you cant stand other racist, but when people is racist to you, then you dont like it.

[Cactusman]

03:12 PM on 03/25/2011

OK, she has been criticized beyond any shadow of doubt. She knows she was wrong and not smart about the rant. She immediately took the video down (not that it does her any good). She's apologized. She's left UCLA.

Another discussion about race and the first amendment has taken place. We've all staked out our positions and hopefully moved towards some greater degree of understanding about what it means to be a citizen in a diverse, pluralistic society.

Now can we all agree to forgive this 20-year-old immature young person and let her grow from this painful and embarrassing experience? No need to ruin the rest of her life over this trivial issue.

After all, forgiveness and acceptance of errors is also a good moral value, when the person who made the offense shows true contrition, as she has. It's up to us to extend the forgiveness to her, because wouldn't we want this for ourselves too?

Let's move on. Compassion and tolerance goes more than one way, you know.

[sarisari1111]

04:11 AM on 03/24/2011

I'm Japanese and ,of course, I'm Asian,too.and I watched her video many times but I couldn't find big problems about what she said.
It's only natural that she complained about stupid barbarians who are lack of common sense,if what she said was true.
Even normal kids know how to behave in public places,let alone ,that's a natural thing for college students to understand what good manners mean in public.

[jbllr]

03:34 PM on 03/22/2011

yea. but she’s hot....

[Bademus]

11:18 PM on 03/20/2011

How this young woman can in any way consider herself a "nice American girl" is beyond me. She is completely selfish, narcissistic and racist. There's nothing nice about that.

[DrMarc Lamantia]

11:53 PM on 04/23/2011

people get a life

[fredex]

02:56 PM on 03/20/2011

I have the tendency to pre-judge people based on stereotypes I have acquired over the course of my lifetime. When I realize that I am doing that, I usually try to counter this prejudice. Then I worry that I am being patronizing. The fact is that I have an unconscious bias for and against people that I don't know based on what they look like, what I assume to be their race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, religion, country of origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, etc.

That being said, I am mature, sensitive, intelligent, and wise enough to refrain from saying things that would reveal my inner, possibly-racist feelings or thoughts. This young woman learned a lesson she will never forget. I feel sorry for her, even more sorry for all the people who were hurt by her words. But I accuse you who heap your hatred on her, on blondes, on women, on voluptuous women, on white women, on stupid people, of not having the sensitivity, maturity, or self-awareness to refrain from making hateful comments based on your prejudices. Let's all try to learn a lesson from this.

[Becca W]

02:54 PM on 03/20/2011

are you kidding me? i'm at the library all the time and i hear people of all colors talking on their cell phones.

and the fact that she pointed out that alot of their relatives visit them just shows how jealous she is because her family don't love her enough to visit...aww...poor baby...

seriously though. this video was so offensive to me. i can't believe such blatant racism is still around. we've progressed alot in the last few decades but obviously not enough if she thinks it's okay to post this on the internet. sure, i may have a few stereotypical or racist thoughts in my head sometimes but i don't say them out loud... i get it, you can't help how you feel about other people but there's a line you don't cross

[peacherliz]

10:21 AM on 03/20/2011

I honestly don't find this offensive at all. I mean, most of the points she made in the video are quite true. I would be annoyed if that sorts of things happened around me. The only mistake she made was posting something she could talk about with her roommate in private on YouTube where there are a lot of sensitive and easily-offended people.
I DO have a problem with her fake blonde hair and her accents.

I'm Chinese, by the way.

[Nick Hall]

07:20 AM on 03/23/2011

I would like to say that this video does'nt offend me. That saying the things that she said in her video simply shows how ignorant she is. I was taught that we as a people of this earth, are all equal, no matter how different we may be.
This video DOES offend me. The thing that bothers me is that she makes it about their race rather than why they were bothering her. That's what true racism is. It isn't using someone's color or ethnicity to describe that person, because yes people from different parts of the world are different, and doing so paints a more detailed and complete story. Its using their color/ ethnicity in a negative context, to describe how they annoy you as a people.
If one white person tries to put you down it isn't because they're white. Just because a black man steals your wallet it doesn't that all black men are thieves. If an Asian is book smart, it doesn't mean that their brother is.
It's when an observation of a single person, or a small group of people turns in to a prejudice or a stereotype of a large group of peoples that racism is born.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of
their character. - Martin Luther King Jr.

I'm mulato, btw

[Fro Froman]

12:27 AM on 03/20/2011

Wow...Another anonymous internet passive aggressive tough guy (or gal)...Imagine that...Hmmm...Why don't you also post where she lives?...How about her family?....You're just a loser!....UCLA = U Clowns Lost Again!

[fredex]

02:50 PM on 03/20/2011

What's your email and phone number again?

[UCLABruin]

10:04 PM on 03/22/2011

WALLACE, ALEXANDRA CHRISTINE
[e-mail] Phone [phone]
8810 CURRAGH DOWNS DR, FAIR OAKS, CA, UNITED STATES 95628-6422
Permanent Phone [phone]
[e-mail]

[slb83]

08:27 PM on 03/19/2011

Imagine reading a paper assignment from someone like her.

[w00t]

08:11 PM on 03/19/2011

Would totally hit it...

[floridafun]

07:49 PM on 03/19/2011

ok...so....i dont mean to offend anyone...but the problem is....ditzy all-about-being-like-me blonds who practically bare their boozums just to make sure thee boyz stay thru their whole totally idiotic vid. blondie is so jealous that her much more intelligent asian counterparts who have loving and caring families who spend time with them, and these asian people really care about the tragedy that is happening in their native country...and they have the cardinal-sin habit of talking on cells at the library....and not even in english so she can listen in!! the gall! its shocking i tell you...shocking!!