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Fukudome doesn’t find racist T-shirts in Wrigleyville funny.
Hoc Administrator Level Pins 04/21/2008 04:36AM Total Posts: 969 From the Alvin Lin blog, by Alvin Lin on 2008-04-18 07:29 PM (original link) What is so key is that he took a stand and said it wasn’t funny, which is different from so many Uncle Tom Asians who will do the opposite. I am tired of hearing Asian Americans defending ‘21’, Abercrombie t-shirts, ‘ching chong’, and loads of other stuff just because they want to fit in or be a model minority. http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/901817,CST-SPT-gordo18.article Kosuke Fukudome didn’t have to wait long for the ugly American part of his welcome to Wrigleyville. A Fukudome T-shirt with a racist image is the hottest-selling item at a souvenir stand that sells unlicensed Cubs-related merchandise across Addison Street from the ballpark, according to Mark Kolbusz, who’s in his fourth season operating the stand. On the front of the shirt is the traditional Cubs cartoon bear face but with slanted eyes and wearing oversized Harry Caray-style glasses. It’s accompanied by the words ‘’Horry Kow,’’ scrawled in cartoonish ‘’Japanese’’ script. Fukudome’s name and number are on the back. I work here.
Sakura [ # 1 ] Moderator Level Pins 04/20/2008 09:06AM Total Posts: 3118 they’re are people defending “ching chong”? omg.
Hoc [ # 2 ] Administrator Level Pins 04/22/2008 05:48PM Total Posts: 969 I don’t suppose they would’ve stop selling it by now? I work here.
minty [ # 3 ] Sr. Member Level Pins 04/22/2008 09:01PM Total Posts: 447 Nope, you can buy racism anything in America.
Aaron [ # 4 ] Sr. Member Level Pins 04/22/2008 09:25PM Total Posts: 308 i don’t see how this shirt is funny.
Hoc [ # 5 ] Administrator Level Pins 04/23/2008 04:15AM Total Posts: 969 There’s actually a lot of people that do. That’s kinda the problem. I work here.
niichan [ # 6 ] Sr. Member Level Pins 04/23/2008 04:18AM Total Posts: 532 if someone made a cracker or nigger shirt no one would be laughing...i don’t see how this is any different
H0Ney [ # 7 ] Sr. Member Level Pins 04/23/2008 04:03PM Total Posts: 626 :O its just one of those stupid tshirts jerks like to sell. theres nothing we can do.
elenastevenson [ # 8 ] Sr. Member Level Pins 05/15/2008 07:18PM Total Posts: 164 I;m with niichan--other groups would not tolerate this.
hyoken [ # 9 ] Member Level Pins 05/15/2008 08:48PM Total Posts: 92 people are so ignorant
TaraPopp [ # 10 ] Sr. Member Level Pins 09/17/2008 09:21AM Total Posts: 342 This kind of cracks me up. Probably because there’s a Chinese restaurant in Seoul called “Holee Chow” and it has a bear logo, only a panda bear. -- Tara [Blog/Collective] [Ningin Blog] “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”—Groucho Marx “I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.”—Woody Allen
Sakura [ # 11 ] Moderator Level Pins 09/17/2008 11:05AM Total Posts: 3118 Don’t you think its kind of racist?
TaraPopp [ # 12 ] Sr. Member Level Pins 09/17/2008 05:10PM Total Posts: 342 Sakura - 09/17/08 3:05 pm Don’t you think its kind of racist? In a way . . . no. I mean I can definitely see how insensitive it is and all that, but at the same time it’s sort of funny since being here in Korea means seeing weird random stuff like that. And while it may be politically incorrect, and while I would never buy that tee-shirt or whatever, I just sort of see the strange humour in it. -- Tara [Blog/Collective] [Ningin Blog] “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”—Groucho Marx “I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.”—Woody Allen
MiaLerda [ # 13 ] Moderator Level Pins 09/17/2008 05:17PM Total Posts: 1470 I say we give them a taste of their own medicine. When they wanted to put a cruicified jesus on wall stickies I wrote and said that was all good but Lets make the all weeble aushwitz play set too. They kinda got mad at me. But yeah what is good for the goose dude! I say if we are gonna have tees like that we should have ones about everyone! http://MiaLerda.Ningin.com Aren’t We Lucky… Asian Guys Are So YummY!
TaraPopp [ # 14 ] Sr. Member Level Pins 09/17/2008 05:23PM Total Posts: 342 MiaLerda - 09/17/08 9:17 pm But yeah what is good for the goose dude! I say if we are gonna have tees like that we should have ones about everyone! Yeah. XD Kind of like that tee shirt from VGCats. My friend ordered this awesome tee-shirt called Jenova’s Witness. Oh noes. Now it’s considered religious-ist! -- Tara [Blog/Collective] [Ningin Blog] “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”—Groucho Marx “I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.”—Woody Allen
proAsian [ # 15 ] Sr. Member Level Pins 09/17/2008 06:45PM Total Posts: 412 LOL That shirts awesome.
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