This former 'Apprentice' star's racist ninja song will leave you speechless
Reddit went nuts on Friday (July 15) upon discovering a video uploaded to YouTube in April that shows a woman named Jennifer Murphy performing a song — seemingly unironically — called "I Want to Be Neenja."
In the video, she adopts a racist Asian accent for a bizarre ditty about training to be a "neenja" to defeat another ninja named Chow. Here's a sample lyric:
"I want to chop, chop, chop Chow down/Take Chow down to Chinatown."
(Apparently, she thinks ninjas are Chinese?)
Murphy performed the song at a launch party for her line of murphy beds (get it?), and the audience ate it up — except for the poor Asian woman standing at the front of the room, trying to smile but mostly cringing through lyrics such as "I use my nunchucks / Even while feeding ducks."
The song and performance is appallingly bad, but watching this poor woman witness this makes it a hundred times worse.
That woman suffered through that whole song trying to grin and bear it, but look at her expression when it's over.
The reaction on Reddit was a mix of shock and incredulity.
"Is this really what rich white people do in their spare time? Not one person there has the balls to roll their eyes and look at her like she lost her fucking mind?" one commenter asked.
A few thought it might have been a poor stab at satire, with another noting, "f you notice how much the camera pans to (the Asian woman), I think this whole thing was intentional, Borat style."
But this sentiment from another user summed up the Reddit community's reaction best: "It was so painful to watch that it should be a hate crime."
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