WTF, Uggaversity
Oct. 22nd, 2008 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaIs this article, on the front page of today's student paper, kinda racist/xenophobic or what?
http://media.www.redandblack.com/media/storage/paper871/news/2008/10/22/Sports/Freshman.Brings.Japanese.Heritage.To.Team-3498317.shtml
I mean, she has a funny name! She's short! She plays volleyball!
Folks, she is an American citizen who was born here and lived her whole life here and sounds pretty much like any other student-athlete from the Atlanta suburbs. She just happens to be Japanese-American. Did the whole profile have to be about that? Are there so few Asian-Americans here that this is newsworthy?
http://media.www.redandblack.com/media/storage/paper871/news/2008/10/22/Sports/Freshman.Brings.Japanese.Heritage.To.Team-3498317.shtml
I mean, she has a funny name! She's short! She plays volleyball!
Folks, she is an American citizen who was born here and lived her whole life here and sounds pretty much like any other student-athlete from the Atlanta suburbs. She just happens to be Japanese-American. Did the whole profile have to be about that? Are there so few Asian-Americans here that this is newsworthy?
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Date: 2008-10-22 02:29 pm (UTC)