OT: Is this racist?
TheeOSU
FUCK IT!
Monday, February 26, 2018 2:43 PM
I'm not defending the heckler in this story, he actually sounded pretty lame and ignorant, but I am wondering if things get to the point that anything said to a black man by a non black man will be considered racist by the media.
Quote from news article..
San Antonio Spurs point guard Patty Mills was the target of a fan’s racially charged taunting during Sunday’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Mills was at the free throw line late in the fourth quarter when a fan shouted out, “hey Jamaican dog they want their bobsledder back! Hey Mills, Jamaica just called, they want their bobsledder back!”
Question, what there is racially charged?
Yes most Jamaicans are black but Jamaicans are not a race, they are a nationality and I am positive that there are white Jamaicans.
Change the heckle to “hey American dog they want their bobsledder back! Hey Mills, America just called, they want their bobsledder back!”
Is there any racism in that altered quote?
Dogs are not a race.
Bobsledders and bobsleds are not a race.
So calling a guy a Jamaican dog bobsledder is racist?
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