04-19-2010, 06:17 AM
In today's Tribune, Kosuke Fukodome was quoted as saying, "I have had many words that I have been called and (that) I have heard in the outfield. I just try to ignore as much as I can." I guess Jacque Jones, LaTroy Hawkins, and Milty aren't the only ones to get it out there with the slurrs.
[img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/shakehead.gif[/img] It's the 21st century, and some folks need to get over others having slightly different amounts of melanin, slightly different features, and have different cultures of origin. I live in a "foreign" culture, and know what it feels like to have a mother pull her children closer because the large, white man is coming... to have people move from their seat on the subway because the "foreigner" sat down next to them... to be discriminated against because my command of the local language is poor. Is it really necessary in this day and age?!? I expect it in a society that was closed for most of the last 3,000 years... what's the excuse in Chicago?
[img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/shakehead.gif[/img] It's the 21st century, and some folks need to get over others having slightly different amounts of melanin, slightly different features, and have different cultures of origin. I live in a "foreign" culture, and know what it feels like to have a mother pull her children closer because the large, white man is coming... to have people move from their seat on the subway because the "foreigner" sat down next to them... to be discriminated against because my command of the local language is poor. Is it really necessary in this day and age?!? I expect it in a society that was closed for most of the last 3,000 years... what's the excuse in Chicago?
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." Albert Einstein