Cubs fans aren't the only racists

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<!--quoteo(post=90800:date=Apr 19 2010, 06:17 AM:name=mindbodyspirit)-->QUOTE (mindbodyspirit @ Apr 19 2010, 06:17 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->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?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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I'm not certain that Fukudome is claiming to have heard racial epithets, but he does seem to confounded by the amount of booing and jeering Cub fans hurl at their own team.

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That said,

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<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->Give me a fucking break. White players in Japan hear a ton of shit, and 1000x worse then what Fukudome or Bradley's mind has heard.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

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This type of defense of bad behavior--"yeah, well, it's worse for whites in Japan"--is specious on its face. The fact is that a growing number of Cub outfielders from the last few years are less than enthusiastic of the treatment they get at the hands of their own fans. Whether the vitriol has been spewed in the form of a simple boo or in a racist slur, the time has probably come to stop defending the many idiots in the bleachers, no matter what your sensitivity is when racism is presented as a topic.