Don't Fake The Funk

Racist Hypocrisy

An excerpt of Dallas Cowboy head coach Bill Parcell's news conference:

"You've got to keep an eye on those two (quarterback coach Sean Payton and defense coordinator Mike Zimmer), because they're going to try to get the upper hand. Mike wants the defense to do well, and Sean, he's going to have a few ... no disrespect for the Orientals, but what we call Jap plays. OK. Surprise things.... No disrespect to anyone."

Now I'm not Japanese so I wasn't offended. But I hear that many Japanese and Japanese-Americans were, and it's their right to be offended. What really irks me is that a black sports reporter named Michael Smith emphatically voiced his opinion on the show Around The Horn that it wasn't a big deal and that Parcells should not be fined. Replace "Orientals" with "coloreds" and "Jap" with "nigger," and I bet he would be screaming for the Tuna's head.

It's hypocrisy like this that really makes me proud to be an American.

Posted by glenn at June 8, 2004 05:25 PM