racist jeremy lin espn headline poll

the funny thing about the YELLOW MAMBA thing is that it's a take off of kobe bryant calling himself BLACK MAMBA except whoever made the sign didn't realize that kobe was adopting the name of a real species and not calling himself "an african-american snake"

yes but people have since riffed on the "____ mamba" thing

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nD44Qz06pRE/Te8Or58tynI/AAAAAAAABD0/jArqCHPiPrA/s1600/the_white_mamba_brian_scalabrine_chicago_bulls_basketball-thumb-autox379-338752.jpg

fwiw i think i heard a piece on the radio where someone was in china interviewing ppl and his nickname there was 'yellow mamba' (but in whatever dialect they were speaking, obv, not english) and the reporter made a point of saying 'that is not considered an offensive term here'

of course it's bad/nagl here in the states but \(o_o)/

white mamba thing has been huge in chicago

Black people don't mind being called black, though there are alternate terms. White people aren't offended by their term unless they've got some real burr up their ass about something.

But yellow and red are not appropriate colors. I know it's confusing because some are okay and some aren't, but that's how it works.

Signed,

A White Person Who Feels He Has to Comment Incessantly About Race

And now this: I thought Taiwanese people considered themselves Chinese.

Some do, some don't. It's safer not to assume one way or the other. Officially Taiwan is the "Republic Of China" but not all Taiwanese people are comfortable being described as "Chinese".

great article, but yeah

i can imagine this being typed out accompanied every twenty second by a heavy sigh and a head shake.

― omar little, Friday, February 24, 2012 4:38 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― goole, Friday, February 24, 2012 5:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

that's how I read it, as I remembered seeing almost all of those in an actual headline or article over the past month

And now this: I thought Taiwanese people considered themselves Chinese. They acknowledge that their land would be a part of China were it not for the communists. Cubans in Miami still consider themselves Cuban. Am I wrong?

― pplains, Friday, February 24, 2012 5:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

it's a very, very complicated question!

I hate to be all "I had a roommate in college", but I had a roommate in college who was from Taiwan. He considered himself Chinese. It's not like they seceded.

and I know taiwanese-americans who consider themselves taiwanese. it's a very, very complicated question!

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/assets_c/2012/02/linsanitybenandjerrys1-thumb-520x681-64947.jpg

Ben & Jerry's launches 'Lin-Sanity' flavor, takes out fortune cookie ingredient

1) can't believe that's not simply a photoshop but a real thing
2) included fortune cookie ingredient 0_0 come on dudes

The hell is going on.

outside of the racism that seems like it would be pretty crappy ice cream

hmm honey vanilla and wafers. Now that's worth $3.95 for a quart.

Sounds like a health milkshake.

outside of the racism that seems like it would be pretty crappy ice cream

The racism really ties the flavor palette together though.

it's lychee honey vanilla

honey? crunchy things? omg what a disaster for ice cream.

why yogurt tho is my question

orientals love ice cream more than any race imo

haha they shoulda made it lactose free

haagen daaz is a thing in asia

or just fill the container w/ rice maybe

^ yes i was thinking that too! xp

xxp

i had rice pudding gelatto once and it was amazing

http://i.imgur.com/ThB3F.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/15Ac1.jpg

This guy is far from being the first Asian-American player in the NBA or in any sport. It's not like the country went wild with Godzilla references over Ichiro Suzuki. Why has Jeremy Lin (JEREMY!) somehow uncovered a festering national pile of Charlie Chan jokes?

http://i.imgur.com/54qEM.jpg

ice cream chocolate fondue?

http://i.imgur.com/QKA4s.jpg

ichiro is asian-american? xp

there really isn't an asian-american male who has ever had the spotlight in a way that lin has it today, I think the whole thing is prob more interesting *outside* of the sports context

tiger woods?

well he's not. Even more excuse for the crazy racism, if there's any excuse.

suzuki.

But it's not like Yao Ming arrived in Houston and some Texan millionaire went "Know what we should do? How about tacos filled with egg rolls instead of shredded beef! Call it the Yao Ming!"

him being asian-american instead of asian has everything to do with it imo

right. there is a huge gap between yao ming / ich / jackie chan and people who speak english as a first language

i was trollng with that tiger post btw

and there are maybe like 3 famous asian american females

related to thred title: this is the guy

http://gothamist.com/attachments/byakas/22212espn.jpg

I feel like players who come from asian professional leagues have a 'stamp of approval' on them - they're supposed to be the best of the best already

tbf if dude had gone to kansas or carolina and been drafted i don't think (quite) the same sort of thing would be going on

as it is, i want him to call someone a round-eye motherfucker

that's the thing, though, is that kansa or unc would prob never have picked him up no matter how good he was in college

not unless he was like, 7'0

dunno -- i think you underestimate college coaches' self-interest

I think it's also kinda a slow news cycle