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That’s Racist!

Posted by Jack Stephens on April 20, 2008

Phil blogs about Chicago Cubs fans buying racist themed t-shirts to “celebrate” their first Japanese player, Kosuke Fukudome:

As you can see above, on the front of the shirt is the traditional Cubs cartoon bear face but with slanted eyes and wearing oversized Harry Caray-sized glasses. It’s accompanied by the words “Horry Cow” in cartoonish “Japanese” script. (The late Caray was the Cubs’ longtime announcer, and among his catchphrases was, “Holy cow!”) Fukudome’s name and number are on the back.

Great. I don’t know what’s worse—the fact that somebody (who is apparently “an Oriental guy”) made this shirt, or that it’s so damn popular amongst Chicago fans. What a way to welcome the franchise’s first Japanese player. That’s racist!

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4 Responses to “That’s Racist!”

  1. Tom said

    May 6, 2008 at 5:56 am

    Jack Stephens,

    Are you seriously leaving this post title up?

    Reply

  2. Jack Stephens said

    May 6, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    Nope, just changed it, here is what I wrote over at Alas, a blog. It didn’t come to my attention until now. Thanks though for pointing it out:

    Sorry for not posting this earlier. I never read the comment thread until now nor did I receive Barry’s e-mail (not sure why).

    I sincerely apologize for that racist title. Kai made some great points in pointing out that reusing the racist slogan from those shirts in Chicago was, in itself, racist and hurtful and I apologize profusely for that error and for the title post. I essentially was playing off of the title on the shirt and on Phil’s catch phrase but it ended up being racist (not coming off as racist, but simply racist). And again, I apologize.

    I’d like to thank Barry for pointing this out in another e-mail (in where he mentioned the previous e-mail that never got to me) and to Tom Autopref for originally pointing it out and for Kai as well.

    As a white male I am obviously unaware, no matter how hard I try, of certain aspects of racism within this country, even if I try to be anti-racist there is no such thing as erasing one’s white privielge and raicsm and therefore anti-racist allies can still be racist despite striving to be anti-racist. So I again thank Kai and Tom for pointing this out to me and for Kai in making his very apt commentary on the racism of my title.

    Reply

  3. Tom said

    May 7, 2008 at 3:08 am

    Jack,

    It’s kind of you to mention me, but resistance at Resist Racism pointed out the problem with the post title earlier, in this post.

    Reply

  4. Jack Stephens said

    May 7, 2008 at 4:32 am

    It’s kind of you to mention me, but resistance at Resist Racism pointed out the problem with the post title earlier, in this post.

    Ahh, I see. Thanks.

    Reply

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