Thursday, August 14, 2008

Skin, N Word, Chinky Eyes

What is this? Spain basketball team doing the chinky... in Beijing with the dragon center court emblem. This is one of those situations where it's okay to do it if you're Asian, but if you're not, you can't. Sorry, that's the end of the story. It might be handled different in Europe, where an Asian might be an Oriental, but this is a popular image floating around the net. People are pissed, and Lakers, Pau Gasol is part of it too.

The N word for example, you hear some African Americans use it in every sentence, it's part of their vernacular, but can Joe Whitey say it? No. Can I? No. 

If you're Native or First People, they can call each other "skin" as in "What up, Skin." Sort of like an N Word, but can we, non-Natives use it? No, we can't and No, they can't.

Oh yes we can.

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Blogger Jimmy! said...

Don't forget the tennis team!

http://gawker.com/5037034/spanish-tennis-team-also-strikes-chinky+eyed-chinaman-pose

1:27 PM  
Blogger Jimmy! said...

oh, also, why are you guys doing that? It's redundant

1:28 PM  
Blogger Yumyumcha said...

Shouldn't michelle be only finger squinting one eye. One half of her is racist.

7:42 PM  
Blogger LC Chen said...

TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK!!!

PAU GASOL of the LOS ANGELES LAKERS & JOSE CALDERON of the TORONTO RAPTORS

EMAIL THE NBA (you will have to register)
www.nba.com/email_us/

WRITE TO THE NBA:
David Stern
The National Basketball Association
Attn: Fan Relations
645 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10022

EMAIL LOS ANGELES LAKERS:
www.nba.com/lakers/contact.html

WRITE TO LOS ANGELES LAKERS
Los Angeles Lakers
555 N. Nash Street
El Segundo, CA 90245
USA
Phone: (310) 426-6000

PAU GASOL WEBSITE (No email contact)/Sponsored by Nike
www.paugasol.com/

PAU GASOL'S NIKE SPONSORS
Nike World Headquarters
One Bowerman Drive
Beaverton, OR 97005
Phone: 1-503-671-6453
EMAIL:
http://www.nikebiz.com/contact/


EMAIL TORONTO RAPTORS
www.nba.com/raptors/contact/index.html

TORONTO RAPTORS ADDRESS:
Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd.
40 Bay St., Suite 400
Toronto, ON
M5J 2X2
CANADA

LIST OF MANAGEMENT/OWNERS TORONTO RAPTORS
http://www.nba.com/raptors/news/mlsel_management.html

JOSE CALDERON'S webpage
www.josemanuelcalderon.com
EMAIL:
email@josemanuelcalderon.com

2:32 AM  
Blogger Michelle said...

My Korean half tends to overcompensate for my more mundane Portuguese side...

-Michelle

4:00 PM  

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