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NYTimes: "Yellow" men can jump?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by basso, Sep 8, 2004.

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  1. basso

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    weird caption on the front page of today's NYTimes.com:

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    'The Yellow Bullet'
    Liu Xiang, a high hurdler, has proved what many Chinese have long felt was not possible: that yellow men can jump, and sprint, too.
     
    #1 basso, Sep 8, 2004
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    Liu Xiang is as white as a China doll can get !

    I don't know what's on those editors' mind
    :confused:
     
    #2 olliez, Sep 8, 2004
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    What's wrong with it? White men, Black men, Yellow men...I dont see any problem with it. It's not like the term is degrading or something.
     
    #3 RocketForever, Sep 8, 2004
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    Don't know, I don't like the term "yellow" for people. It is inaccurate and also associated with some diseases.
     
    #4 AroundTheWorld, Sep 8, 2004
  5. El Toro

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    Nobody calls me yella.

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    #5 El Toro, Sep 8, 2004
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    I think it was chicken, dude.
     
    #6 DonnyMost, Sep 8, 2004
  7. El Toro

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    Not in part 3. "chicken" i imagine wasn't around back when, so they used "yella".

    :)
     
    #7 El Toro, Sep 8, 2004
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    But you used a screen cap from BTTF part 2.

    Where is your sense of journalistic intergrity? ;)
     
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  9. El Toro

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    fine! you happy now? way to bring it down debbie downer. :D

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    (derailing threads is fun)
     
    #9 El Toro, Sep 8, 2004
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    So is black... (the plague)
     
    #10 AMS, Sep 8, 2004
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    white is associated with Death
     
    #11 arno_ed, Sep 9, 2004
  12. IROC it

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    I'm not white, or red, or black...
    I'm Brooown, from the Boogie Down-
    Productions, of course, our music be bumpin'
    Others say they're "bad" but they're buggin'

    -KRS One
     
    #12 IROC it, Sep 9, 2004
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