Senate Candidate Hoekstra Stands By Super Bowl Ad

LANSING, Mich. (WJBK) - Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra is standing by his ad during the Super Bowl that critics say plays on Asian stereotypes.

He visited the Fox 2 newsroom Monday and offered a response for those who say he crossed the line. Click on the video to see the interview, plus a full report from Fox 2's Maurielle Lue.

A coalition of black ministers in Detroit is calling on U.S. Senate candidate  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."

Hoekstra held a Monday conference call on his campaign with reporters, where he offered an explanation, but no apology.