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標 題: Bill Walton: Shame on you, Shaq.
發信站: 台大計中椰林風情站 (Sat Jan 18 17:56:02 2003)
有一篇關於大歐污辱姚明的評論。Bill Walton寫的。俠客似乎用中文
罵了很不雅的話,文中說,如果俠客是你十歲的兒子,說出這種話,妳會
如何處置?所以他可能罵了家長教小孩不能說的話吧。(If Shaq were
your 10-year-old child, what would you do or say to him after
making such comments?) 其中也帶有種族歧視的意涵吧,所以作者說如果
姚明也對俠客的種族出言不訓,一定會被(黑人)極力聲討,然而那些平
日吵鬧種族歧視議題的黑人領袖並未對俠客的失言置一詞,所以作者問「
他們都到哪兒去了?」(Where is Jessie Jackson? Where is Al
Sharpton? Where is Johnnie Cochran?)
來源:
http://espn.go.com/nba/columns/walton_bill/1493849.html
Thursday, January 16
Updated: January 18, 2:42 AM ET
Shaq should've thought before he spoke
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By Bill Walton
Special to ESPN.com
How many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry?
Although the comments have been reported before, the recent
release of recordings of Shaquille O'Neal mocking, criticizing
and generally disrespecting Yao Ming are startling.
How disappointing for Shaq -- he should know better. He's the
leader of the NBA and you expect more from him. Can you imagine
Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic, Hakeem or David
Robinson saying anything like this?
We constantly hear from people like Shaq that they want to be
respected. Well, to get respect, you must give respect. We live
in a world and society where diversity needs to be encouraged not
discouraged. If Shaq were your 10-year-old child, what would you
do or say to him after making such comments?
What if Yao Ming had said something about Shaq's ethnicity? You
can imagine the outcry and it would be justified. But it has to
cut both ways. Where is Jessie Jackson? Where is Al Sharpton?
Where is Johnnie Cochran?
Yao Ming has far too much class to get involved in this nonsense
but you know it has to hurt. With the way he has been mistreated,
manhandled and butchered by so many for simply coming here to play
basketball -- something he was asked to do -- he must be asking
himself, "What is going on here?"
There is no place in our world for Shaq's intolerance and
insensitivity. And this from a man who has as much experience and
knowledge in dealing with the media as anyone alive today. Shaq is
a man who has obviously been teased and made fun of a lot in his
life because he is visually different from what some consider the
"norm." He can't like it when it happens to him -- so why this?
If that is what he is saying publicly ... then what can he be
thinking privately?
And as far as Shaq's "apology" is concerned, well, I don't get it
when someone says, "IF I offended anyone, I'm sorry." That tactic
really worked well for Trent Lott.
But is this any worse than what the Miami Heat did when Yao Ming
came to play in South Florida and the Heat -- as a promotion --
handed out fortune cookies? You can never ignore or rank levels
of intolerance of any nature.
Just remember the quote on the wall at the Holocaust Museum in our
Washington, D.C. that tells the story of the people who didn't
complain or object to the mistreatment of others. Their final
lament was "That when they finally came for me, there was nobody
left to comp