Sacramento Kings scrap t-shirt giveaway deemed insensitive

[nolanvt]

to African Americans. People who aren't Kings fans who were never going to attend the game are going to be pissed.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/14695 ... akes-issue

[RiverguyVT]

Oh, great. Now they've pissed off 1.5 BILLION chinese!

PC morons.

[USN_Hokie]

I always love stories like this, they're a rorschach test.

Who is racist:

A. The guy who puts a monkey on a shirt and doesn't think it will offend anyone.
B. The guy who sees a monkey on a shirt and think's it's supposed to represent black people.

We live in backwards times - black people want to be segregated and think they look like monkeys. People who disagree with this are racist. Weird.

[VisorBoy]

I always love stories like this, they're a rorschach test.

Who is racist:

A. The guy who puts a monkey on a shirt and doesn't think it will offend anyone.
B. The guy who sees a monkey on a shirt and think's it's supposed to represent black people.

We live in backwards times - black people want to be segregated and think they look like monkeys. People who disagree with this are racist. Weird.

Neither.

[RiverguyVT]

I always love stories like this, they're a rorschach test.

Who is racist:

A. The guy who puts a monkey on a shirt and doesn't think it will offend anyone.
B. The guy who sees a monkey on a shirt and think's it's supposed to represent black people.

We live in backwards times - black people want to be segregated and think they look like monkeys. People who disagree with this are racist. Weird.

+1

[HokieFanDC]

I always love stories like this, they're a rorschach test.

Who is racist:

A. The guy who puts a monkey on a shirt and doesn't think it will offend anyone.
B. The guy who sees a monkey on a shirt and think's it's supposed to represent black people.

We live in backwards times - black people want to be segregated and think they look like monkeys. People who disagree with this are racist. Weird.

Remember the call that racism is often due to ignorance? Being upset at those t-shirts is due to the ignorance of people who are offended by it.