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The Korea Herald<\/a>: South Korea posts third-best time in the Men\u2019s 4×100 meter relay race at the Asian Games, but are ruled disqualified for no clear reason; upon official appeal is Korea correctly awarded the bronze medals<\/span><\/p>\n Man, when I came across this story, and I saw the photograph of the Korean relay team in question, I had to throw my head back and laugh heartily at the obviousness of this entire piss-poor optics scenario.\u00a0 As much as western people love to extol how great certain Asian cultures are, the sad fact of the matter is that a whole lot of Asia is still racist as fuck, especially towards black people.<\/span><\/p>\n Perhaps not to the hostile cruelty that of white people and generations of enslavement and torture, but even to this day, there\u2019s a tremendous amount of general ignorance and xenophobia when it comes to those of black skin tones being in Asian countries, regardless of how legally allowed or birthright they might have.<\/span><\/p>\n The fact that the organizers of the Asian Games had no clear explanation of why South Korea was disqualified from the 4×100 meter is very obvious and doesn\u2019t need one, because most people with brains can probably figure out the whole story, just by looking at the photograph of the relay team Korea had fielded for the event.<\/span><\/p>\n So let\u2019s just get it out of the way, and drop the facts:<\/span><\/p>\n Biwesa Daniel Gassama <\/strong>(far left) is born of parents from the Democratic Republic of Congo who came to South Korea as refugees.\u00a0 He was born in Korea, but that didn\u2019t make him automatically a Korean citizen, he acquired his citizenship when his mother became officially naturalized in 2018.\u00a0 He went to elementary, middle and high school in Korea and intends on serving out his mandatory two-year stint in the military as all Korean citizens do.<\/span><\/p>\n Joel Jin Nwamadi<\/strong> (far right) is Korean by birthright as since he has a Korean mother; dad is Nigerian.\u00a0 His story is less complicated as one of his parents is Korean, and despite his obvious bi-racial appearance, Asian Games officials only need to see a names like \u201cNwamadi\u201d and \u201cBiwesa\u201d and it makes them blush<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Obviously, by the rules, Korea had done nothing illegal, or brought in any ringers or expedited expats like France does in the World Cup, but that didn\u2019t stop Asian Games organizers from freaking out at seeing two dudes with dark skin, and just preemptively ringing the bell for a DQ.<\/span><\/p>\n Naturally, there\u2019s nothing about this whole scenario that isn\u2019t sad, bothersome and doesn\u2019t cheapen Korea\u2019s success, but at the same time it doesn\u2019t really seem that surprising, given the general propensity of Asian cultures to act embarrassingly when it comes to their inherent xenophobia.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying it was in the least bit right or defending their actions, but as an Asian person who is pretty familiar with lots of Asian cultures, I just can\u2019t say that I found this to be at all that surprising.<\/span><\/p>\n But hey, at least Korea was actually successful with their appeal and getting the decision corrected, because it would be a real travesty if these sprinters all went home empty handed, in spite of the concrete evidence of their third-place finishing time.\u00a0 Always proud to hear of Koreans achieving success in anything, especially athletics.<\/span><\/p>\n This is basically like a lite-Korean version of Cool Runnings<\/em>, when the Jamaican bobsled team qualified for advancement into the medal round, but were mysteriously disqualified, with some ambiguous excuse of not having enough competitive experience.\u00a0 And when John Candy\u2019s character Irv Blitzer confronted the IOC and called them out on their racism, they were reinstated with no real explanation or apology.\u00a0 This really wasn\u2019t that different of a situation, but it was two black guys instead of four, and instead of bobsleds, they were still track sprinters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And in the age of where what\u2019s old can become new again, this would make for a pretty interesting re-make of Cool Runnings.\u00a0 However, the reality still remains that for whatever reason, Disney doesn\u2019t seem to acknowledge the existence of Korea or its culture, based on how out of the way they remain at avoiding creating anything at all inspired by Korean culture, so there\u2019s probably a fat chance that this happens.\u00a0 Probably better suited for one of Korea\u2019s film bigwigs like CJ Entertainment to pickup instead, and it would probably end up a better production in their hands anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Korea Herald: South Korea posts third-best time in the Men\u2019s 4×100 meter relay race at the Asian Games, but are ruled disqualified for no clear reason; 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![it makes them blush<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\nObviously, by the rules, Korea had done nothing illegal, or brought in any ringers or expedited expats like France does in the World Cup, but that didn\u2019t stop Asian Games organizers from freaking out at seeing two dudes with dark skin, and just preemptively ringing the bell for a DQ.<\/span><\/p>\nNaturally, there\u2019s nothing about this whole scenario that isn\u2019t sad, bothersome and doesn\u2019t cheapen Korea\u2019s success, but at the same time it doesn\u2019t really seem that surprising, given the general propensity of Asian cultures to act embarrassingly when it comes to their inherent xenophobia.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying it was in the least bit right or defending their actions, but as an Asian person who is pretty familiar with lots of Asian cultures, I just can\u2019t say that I found this to be at all that surprising.<\/span><\/p>\nBut hey, at least Korea was actually successful with their appeal and getting the decision corrected, because it would be a real travesty if these sprinters all went home empty handed, in spite of the concrete evidence of their third-place finishing time.\u00a0 Always proud to hear of Koreans achieving success in anything, especially athletics.<\/span><\/p>\nThis is basically like a lite-Korean version of Cool Runnings<\/em>, when the Jamaican bobsled team qualified for advancement into the medal round, but were mysteriously disqualified, with some ambiguous excuse of not having enough competitive experience.\u00a0 And when John Candy\u2019s character Irv Blitzer confronted the IOC and called them out on their racism, they were reinstated with no real explanation or apology.\u00a0 This really wasn\u2019t that different of a situation, but it was two black guys instead of four, and instead of bobsleds, they were still track sprinters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAnd in the age of where what\u2019s old can become new again, this would make for a pretty interesting re-make of Cool Runnings.\u00a0 However, the reality still remains that for whatever reason, Disney doesn\u2019t seem to acknowledge the existence of Korea or its culture, based on how out of the way they remain at avoiding creating anything at all inspired by Korean culture, so there\u2019s probably a fat chance that this happens.\u00a0 Probably better suited for one of Korea\u2019s film bigwigs like CJ Entertainment to pickup instead, and it would probably end up a better production in their hands anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Korea Herald: South Korea posts third-best time in the Men\u2019s 4×100 meter relay race at the Asian Games, but are ruled disqualified for no clear reason; upon official appeal is Korea correctly awarded the bronze medals Man, when I came across this story, and I saw the photograph of the Korean relay team in … Continue reading Cool Runnings \u2013 the Korean Remix<\/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":[100,45,103,41,129,83,52,89,58,49],"class_list":["post-51573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-motherland","tag-movies","tag-nostalgia","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-racism","tag-sports","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51573","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=51573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51575,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51573\/revisions\/51575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/y.yarn.co\/b417fc6a-6239-44a9-a513-d158834ba2e2_text.gif\"){kind=link}