WATCH: Hoekstra's broken English ad draws more criticism Created by jzimney on 2/6/2012 3:53:37 PM Pin It LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A coalition of black ministers in Detroit is calling on U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra to apologize for his Super Bowl ad portraying a young Asian woman speaking broken English.
The request came a day after an Asian-American group called the ad "very disturbing."
The Michigan Republican began taking heat after the Super Bowl ad ran statewide Sunday. Some detractors said it was racially insensitive, while national GOP consultant Mike Murphy tweeted that it was "really, really dumb."
Rev. Charles Williams II of Detroit's King Solomon Baptist church where Malcolm X once spoke said in a Monday release that the woman's broken English in the ad is no different than "having a black person speaking in slave dialect."
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow says Republican rival Pete Hoekstra should be "embarrassed" by his new campaign ad.
In a Monday call with reporters, Stabenow said she's fighting to keep U.S. jobs from going to China. She praised a Chrysler Super Bowl ad that talks about Americans pulling together, then criticized the Hoekstra ad for its "divisiveness."
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