Spain's Racist Photo

[TeamPlayer]

See the photo here:

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Spanish-basketball-team-poses-for-offensive-pict?urn=oly,100152

Below is another article about it (no photograph in this one). If the U.S. did this, we'd see burning american flags everywhere. Anyway, I hope the Chinese boo the hell out of the Spanish team when they play the U.S. Can anyone say, "homefield adantage?

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/basketball/news;_ylt=ApeEhoqOjmAFxiJ9btm9mCQ5nYcB?slug=aw-nbaspainphoto081308&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

[jtuck]

They were talking about it on the radio today, imagine if the Memphis basketball team did this before one of their trips to china. The media would be on us in a heartbeat

[adriano]

I don't see any racism in this picture. I hate the modern media, whoever believes what they did was racist is even a bigger fool than the media themselves.

[jtuck]

Adriano, its a completely different world over here across the atlantic. Americans are way too sensitive to stuff like this

[TeamPlayer]

I don't see any racism in this picture. I hate the modern media, whoever believes what they did was racist is even a bigger fool than the media themselves.

Adriano,

according to your logic, 1 billion Chinese people are fools because they feel offended by the racist picture.

[ico2525]

Yeah, that's not even a candid photo. What makes it worse is that it was premeditated. Everyone on the team had to pose for the picture.

[pavyracer]

Why is the photo racist? I don't see anything wrong. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson don't think is racist so it's cool with me.

[jtuck]

Why is the photo racist? I don't see anything wrong. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson don't think is racist so it's cool with me.

You know what you're getting at.... What if the spanish players had made faces like african americans have?

[daggerkobe]

Maybe the Chinese team can pose with lawnmowers.

[pavyracer]

You know what you're getting at.... What if the spanish players had made faces like african americans have?

I would do this

Cheer up and watch the Chapelle Show more often.

[pavyracer]

Maybe the Chinese team can pose with lawnmowers.

They are not Mexican pal!

[jtuck]

I would do this

Cheer up and watch the Chapelle Show more often.

Im just fvckin with you dude, i just thought it would be funny to see Pau Gasol with his cheeks puffed and lips turned up.

[TeamPlayer]

PavyRacer,

I'd love to see you walk up to Chinese people on the street and slant your eyes as the Spanish basketball team did in the photo?

I'd be laughing so hard when they all kicked your ass

Better yet, go to China and do it there! Then come back and tell me that it's not offensive, that is if you are still alive

[Tsoprano]

Maybe the Chinese team can pose with lawnmowers.

[TeamPlayer]

ahhhh...yes, the joys of being an internet tough guy.

[lys3rg0]

racism is when you think other people are inferior, not simply different. i guess it's in the eye of the beholder... but i see this photo as positive if anything. the message is smth like "we're all chinese" and stuff. but of course, the Fox News crowd had to fvck this one up too.

[reno cool]

racism is when you keep people in slavery or poverty, or bomb them for no reason. The people who support or do those things like to pretend everyone should be offended by silly things like this. Janets boob all over again

[pavyracer]

PavyRacer,

I'd love to see you walk up to Chinese people on the street and slant your eyes as the Spanish basketball team did in the photo?

I'd be laughing so hard when they all kicked your ass

Better yet, go to China and do it there! Then come back and tell me that it's not offensive, that is if you are still alive

When you get some time look at pictures from people that live on the Tajikistan/Kyrgyztan border. We have slanted eyes and we were not offended by the Spaniards. Hell no, did the Japanese or the Vietnamese complain? No! They have slanted eyes too son. If you are offended by a goofy picture then you have other issues.

[The HG]

racism is when you think other people are inferior, not simply different.

What if you think other people are better? Are you still racist? I'll give you an example: Let's say there's a white guy, and that white guy thinks that white people are better than Chinese, Blacks, Indians, and Mexicans. Obviously we would call that guy a racist.

But what if he thinks that Blacks are better than everyone, then Whites are second, Indians third, Chinese fourth, and Mexicans fifth? Is he still a racist then?

[fiveteamer]

Maybe the Chinese team can pose with lawnmowers.

bags of oranges would be better.