Skip to comments.
Spanish Hoops Squad Takes Its Eyes Off the Ball (Check this picture out!)
TMZ ^
| 8/11/08
| Basketball Jones
Posted on 08/11/2008 1:32:37 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
The Spanish national basketball team, gold medal contenders at the Olympics in Beijing, was featured in a full page ad that shows the team pulling back at their eyes in a slanty-eyed gesture. According to the Guardian, the ad (which is for a freight company) ran in a Spanish newspaper.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: 2008olympics; 2racist; ads; china; notfunny; olympics; racistasshats; racists; spain
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-26 next last
To: BurbankKarl
Oh man, are they gonna be in trouble with the PC PO-LICE!...............
2
posted on
08/11/2008 1:34:02 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
To: BurbankKarl
Somebody cue that little kid.
3
posted on
08/11/2008 1:35:00 PM PDT
by
ushr435
To: BurbankKarl
Do they randomly test for substances that might give a person “chinese eyes”? Or is it just for “performance enhancing” drugs?
4
posted on
08/11/2008 1:35:19 PM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Vigilantism will arise where the justice system is viewed as overly lenient and/or ineffective.)
To: BurbankKarl
Must.....not......laugh......
Must.....not......laugh......
Must.....not......laugh......
To: BurbankKarl
I think I’m suppose to be offended. Or am I? Oy.
6
posted on
08/11/2008 1:37:55 PM PDT
by
peggybac
(Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
To: Red Badger
No blacks on the team? Doesn’t Spain have an African population? What’s with the sneakers. don’t they keep to one standard?
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: BurbankKarl
I rather thought it was a gesture of solidarity with the Chinese, but then, I failed my diversity training course.
9
posted on
08/11/2008 1:42:29 PM PDT
by
chickadee
To: BurbankKarl
10
posted on
08/11/2008 1:45:38 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(I doubled the pressure in my Obamas, now my fuel gauge runs backwards and my tank is overflowing!)
To: BurbankKarl
It’s only offensive if white protestant American men do it.
11
posted on
08/11/2008 1:46:41 PM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
( OBAMA/HUCKABEE '08)
To: Red Badger
Not to worry, only white Americans can be racists!
12
posted on
08/11/2008 1:47:50 PM PDT
by
notaliberal
(Christ Our Hope!)
To: BurbankKarl
I double dog dare them to fold back and make their lips bigger.
13
posted on
08/11/2008 1:49:05 PM PDT
by
Plutarch
To: BurbankKarl
They are the weakest chinks ...
To: ushr435
15
posted on
08/11/2008 1:50:40 PM PDT
by
Clint N. Suhks
( Bitter Clinger: We Cannot Inflate Our Way Out of This Energy Crisis)
To: BurbankKarl
Looks like number 10 (front row on right) is using his middle finger and possibly sending a second message.
16
posted on
08/11/2008 1:56:24 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
("They're not Americans. They're liberals! "-- Ann Coulter, May 15, 2008)
To: BurbankKarl
All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
17
posted on
08/11/2008 1:59:57 PM PDT
by
TexGuy
(If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
To: BurbankKarl
Photographer to Spanish B-Ball team - "NO NO NO!!! When I said, 'Let's get Chinese'....I meant.....oh nevermind......"
18
posted on
08/11/2008 2:09:59 PM PDT
by
BossLady
(People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul. ~Carl Jung)
To: Clint N. Suhks
That’s the one - To be absolutely politically correct for this story, I suppose this kid should be of Chinese heritage, and his statement should be in English, Spanish and Mandarin:-)
19
posted on
08/11/2008 2:11:52 PM PDT
by
ushr435
To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
The Moors were kicked out of Spain years ago.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-26 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson