{"id":45398,"date":"2017-10-06T10:10:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T14:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45398"},"modified":"2020-08-04T10:10:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T14:10:36","slug":"racist-double-standards-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45398","title":{"rendered":"Racist double standards, #47"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SSDD<\/a>: Ex-NBA player Kenyon Martin blasts current NBA player Jeremy Lin about having dreadlocks, accuses him of \u201cwanting to be black,\u201d Lin rebuts with kindness but also points out Martin\u2019s Chinese character tattoos, owning him as if slavery still existed<\/span><\/p>\n

Another day, another double standard where a black guy cries victim of ____, but has no hesitation of taking it out on Asian guys.\u00a0 Honestly, there was a time where I kind of liked Kenyon Martin; I loved those Nets teams of the 2000s with Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson, and I totally pulled for them in the Finals against the Spurs where they lost in six.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, there were always questions about his character, his propensity to whine and argue fouls and his perceived character based on the countless tattoos and questionable demeanor.\u00a0 But he was still a really decent basketball player that was fun to watch, so I never had any problem with him, even when those Nets teams disbanded and he went off to Denver before I stopped giving any shits about the NBA in general.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I guess I\u2019m not surprised by him coming out on social media and blasting current-Net Jeremy Lin for having dreadlocks and accusing him of misappropriating black culture and \u201ctrying to be black.\u201d\u00a0 However, I did think of how stupid he sounded before I even read about Lin\u2019s rebuttal, because one, he\u2019s validating the oft-notion that black guys love to pull the race card when they feel that they\u2019re being wronged, but have zero hesitations when it comes to putting down Asians themselves.\u00a0 Two, dreadlocks do not solely belong to black culture, as I\u2019m sure hippies of all races and colors, Jamaicans and any other Dutch or Latin cultures that utilize dreads would attest to.\u00a0 And third, I astutely remember that Kenyon Martin has at least one prominent tattoo of Chinese characters<\/a>, which by his logic would mean he\u2019s misappropriating Chinese culture, thus making him a giant hypocrite.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, Kenyon Martin wasn\u2019t in the NBA because of his brains; it just so happens unfortunately for him that the guy he was trading social media barbs with is also Harvard-educated on top of being on his former team.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Make no mistake, Jeremy Lin handled the situation in the best possible way.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t stoop to Martin\u2019s level and make veiled racist remarks, but he also didn\u2019t ignore the barbs thrown his way and was quick to point out his own potential misappropriation in his Chinese character tattoos.<\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally, Martin wasn\u2019t smart enough to take the incident offline or just disengage outright, and ended up looking like the dumbass he probably is by playing the old \u201cit was just a joke\u201d song and dance, and digging his own grave a little deeper.<\/span><\/p>\n

I kind of feel bad for every black guy that ever reads about this situation that happens to have Chinese characters tattooed on themselves.\u00a0 They\u2019re obviously not all going to agree with Martin in the first place, but because of his big mouth, them and every non-Asian person with Chinese characters tattooed on themselves might feel a little self-conscious about the potential insensitivity permanently attached to their choices.\u00a0 At least if Jeremy Lin felt like he was being racially insensitive with his dreads, he can shave them off and start over any time he wanted to.\u00a0 Tattoo removal is pretty expensive (and supposedly painful).<\/span><\/p>\n

The point is, Kenyon Martin is a dumbass who obviously spoke without thinking, and was systematically dismantled and exposed as a dumbass by someone clearly smarter than him.\u00a0 But he still acted on an alarmingly frequent double-standard where black people love to cry foul on racism but have zero qualms at acting the same way towards a different culture.\u00a0 And much like Lin states, the more such behaviors can be confronted and discussed, the better chance there is that they can be rectified.\u00a0 But we live in such a spineless society, that such will not have a chance of happening and instead, this story probably ends up with Kenyon Martin hating Jeremy Lin, while Lin gets the W and remains on the higher ground, looking all the better for it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SSDD: Ex-NBA player Kenyon Martin blasts current NBA player Jeremy Lin about having dreadlocks, accuses him of \u201cwanting to be black,\u201d Lin rebuts with kindness but also points out Martin\u2019s Chinese character tattoos, owning him as if slavery still existed Another day, another double standard where a black guy cries victim of ____, but has … Continue reading Racist double standards, #47<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,45,90,52,89],"class_list":["post-45398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-basketball","tag-fail","tag-hypocrisy","tag-owned","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45400,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45398\/revisions\/45400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}