Wednesday, August 13, 2008

A "Special" Tribute to China


By now, most of you have probably seen or heard about the ad by Spain's Olympic basketball team, well here it is, in all its glory. C'mon now, how messed up is this? All my life I grew up with this crap of "slanted eyes" and people pulling their eyelids to the side of their face and mocking Asian people. Not cool. And now to have an OLYMPIC TEAM do this in the media for the whole world to see? Best of all, mocking the host country of the Olympics? I'm just so amazed at how people don't think about these things and see nothing wrong about it. One of the players said, "We did it because we thought it was going to be something nice, something with no problem." Something nice? Are you kidding me? How is this nice at all? It's straight up disrespectful. I'm really curious to know how this racist gesture would even come close to being "nice". What kind of tribute to the Chinese is this? Get some sense guys...