There are only two conclusions one can draw from all of this. Either ESPN has a group of stone racists sitting at the SportsCenter Desk, hosting their radio shows and writing headlines (doubtful), or they have no anti-racist mental apparatus for how to talk about an Asian-American player. As a result, we see again that people of Asian descent are subject to a casual racism that other ethnic groups don’t have to suffer quite as starkly.

Source: Dave Zirin, Not-so-accidental racism at ESPN
Posted on 22 February, 2012, 4:16pm. This post has 3 notes.
tags: | #racism | #media | #sports 
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