In 2010, the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre released a statement explaining their decision to produce a play by Lauren Yee titled "Ching Chong Chinaman", a term which has at times been used in  doggerel verse with racist overtones.
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Chinaman (term)
Controversy.
In 2001, the "Chicago Sun-Times" was chastised by William Yashino, Midwest director of the Japanese American Citizens League, for using the term "Chinaman" in two of its columns.  Yashino wrote, in a letter to the editor on May 16, 2001, that the term is derogatory and demeaning to Chinese Americans and Asian Americans, and that it marginalizes these communities and inflames public sentiment. 
 In March 2007, media mogul Ted Turner used the term in a public speech before the Bay Area Council of San Francisco, California.  Community leaders and officials objected to his use of the term, and immediately called for an apology.  In a statement released by his spokesman on March 13, 2007, Turner apologized for having used the term, stating that he was unaware that the term was derogatory.   Vincent Pan, director of the organization Chinese for Affirmative Action, said it was "a bit suspect" for someone involved in domestic and world politics like Turner to be unaware that the term is derogatory.  Yvonne Lee, a former commissioner of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, said the apology was the first step, but wanted Turner to agree to further "dialogue between different communities".
 On April 11, 2008, golf announcer Bobby Clampett apologized for referring to golfer Liang Wen-Chong as "the Chinaman" during the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club. Clampett, working the Internet broadcast of Amen Corner, made the comment after Liang missed the cut. According to the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch", Clampett was taken off the broadcast after the comment.