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In a great sign of goodwill, comedian Ken Jeong has donated $50,000 to the families of victims of the recent Atlanta-area spa shootings.
Kendrick Jeong made five $10,000 donations to the GoFundMe campaigns for the families of Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Xiaojie “Emily” Tan and Yong Yue.
NBC News confirmed that the donations came from the The Hangover actor Monday afternoon.
Jeong has been vocal about the hate crimes, and has spoken out against them himself.
“With regard to the situation in Atlanta and the shootings in Atlanta, my heart, thoughts and prayers go out to all affected,” he said during a virtual visit on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
“… It’s just a sign that with the Asian American community, enough is enough.”
Jeong, whose parents migrated to the U.S. from South Korea, also shared some of the fundraising campaigns to his Twitter account.
“The fact that even in this particular crime, there is debate whether this crime was racially motivated,” Jeong said.
“Asian American women are two times as likely to be assaulted in America. This was clearly, clearly racially motivated. This was clearly a hate crime.”
A nice gesture.
Right – because its most important that we only offer help to victims, when we can get credit. and even more importantly, make sure you help people based on their race/ethnicity …
-we are destroying ourselves with division from within. virtue doesn’t have a political cause.
Actually, he only donated to some of the victims.
Bruh who cares? I pray for victims and families but a 8 person shooting is not a national tragedy. There were 10 white people killed in Colorado and nobody will care, and quite frankly it is also not a national tragedy. I think we all should drop all the pandering.
And how much did he donate to the families of the other victims, who didn’t happen to have similar phenotypic characteristics as his? Oh, nothing? Racist.
Yup, he’ll stiff the Colorado jihadist’s victims…
Always nice to see a happy ending.
Will he be donating another $50k to fund the Obama jihad, too?
I thought it was a sex crime by a sick dude?
Ken Jeong is worth 14 mil according to Cosmo so thats what we ‘know of’…he made a bullshit political statement and threw his equivalent of 5 dollars into the ‘hat of virtue’…cool, thanks man…i’m sure your 5 bucks will go to good use, and your words will certainly have a much heavier price….slow clap
Exactly, I’m so sick of this pandering crap and the way morons swoon for it.
Why do we celebrate them for this? That is literally NOTHING for him. That’s like me asking for a pat on the back for donating five bucks at the checkout register