ESPN - "Chink In The Armor"

rockynpolo · Post #1 » by **rockynpolo** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:58 am

And they even said it on tv:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESEGRwnQW4k[/youtube]

First it was Jason Whitlocks disgusting racialist comment regarding Jeremy Lin's peepee size and now ESPN is taking shots themselves with this headliner.
How racist is this?

source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball- ... 08429.html

Bertrob · Post #2 » by **Bertrob** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:00 am

not very racist
its a coincidence

Dr Pepper · Post #3 » by **Dr Pepper** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:00 am

Now where's that infamous Team Spain pic...

Cultness · Post #4 » by **Cultness** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:00 am

I chuckled.

Elden Payton · Post #5 » by **Elden Payton** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:09 am

LMAO.

Horrendously coincidental I think.

LLJ · Post #6 » by **LLJ** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:10 am

It's funny how Lin attracts more of this racial sh*t storm than Yao ever did. You'd think that Lin was even *more* foreign than Yao!

methdefense · Post #7 » by **methdefense** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:11 am

Seems too much coincidence.

DusterBuster · Post #8 » by **DusterBuster** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:13 am

I won't lie, I lol'd. I blame Daniel Tosh.

Stunnaboy2K11 · Post #9 » by **Stunnaboy2K11** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:14 am

People are so sensitive

JF23 · Post #10 » by **JF23** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:15 am

Knickerbocker Please!

Vertical Limit · Post #11 » by **Vertical Limit** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:15 am

Well that reporter from ESPN won't get punishment. He's reading everything the writers tell him to say. He will apologize but it's the writers that will be fired/face punishments.

retrospect24 · Post #12 » by **retrospect24** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:16 am

They do this whenever they can. Remember the Beijing olympics?

Jan_Sobieski · Post #13 » by **Jan_Sobieski** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:17 am

Vertical Limit wrote:Well that reporter from ESPN won't get punishment. He's reading everything the writers tell him to say. He will apologize but it's the writers that will be fired/face punishments.

Damn writers lol

MVP Rose · Post #14 » by **MVP Rose** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:17 am

Stunnaboy2K11 wrote:People are so sensitive

Right, because if the N word was headlining ESPN, it wouldn't be a big deal at all

I personally don't think it's a big deal, but I can understand why people take offense to it.

Jan_Sobieski · Post #15 » by **Jan_Sobieski** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:18 am

retrospect24 wrote:They do this whenever they can. Remember the 2008 olympics?

Did anyone care then. ESPECIALLY when the Olympics were in a country called you know CHINA lol

Devilzsidewalk · Post #16 » by **Devilzsidewalk** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:18 am

wow, and it WAS a Lin story! I was already thinking when i saw the thread "cmon who cares unless it was on a Lin story" assuming that obviously it wouldn't be. ESPN is trolling.

methdefense · Post #17 » by **methdefense** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:18 am

Stunnaboy2K11 wrote:People are so sensitive

I dunno about you but the only time I heard someone using the word "chink" is that someone actually purposely being racist. I didn't make a big deal out of it because that just normal in school atmosphere, but in professional level, it's too much.

Bertrob · Post #18 » by **Bertrob** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:20 am

MVP Rose wrote:
Stunnaboy2K11 wrote:People are so sensitive

Right, because if the N word was headlining ESPN, it wouldn't be a big deal at all

I personally don't think it's a big deal, but I can understand why people take offense to it.

Right but "Chink in the armor" is an actual idiom
Its not like they can put a headline thats commonly means something else with the N word......

"N-WORD IN THE WOODPILE"

Gramatika5O · Post #19 » by **Gramatika5O** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:21 am

Stunnaboy2K11 wrote:People are so sensitive

prs · Post #20 » by **prs** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:21 am