Racism by The Media On China and Chinese People Is SIckening

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The Olympics are in China this year and the haters and racists in the media and all over the world are out in full force. Chinese Americans all over this country are enraged and angry at the insults hurled directly and indirectly at them.

I talked to many Chinese people here in the Bay Area who are upset and unhappy at the media coverage in this country. I can't blame them for being angry.

I was watching NBC broadcaster Bob Costas interview President Bush on Sunday night and all the questions he asked were basically anti-China.  Costas questioned if China's government will ever reform and he also mentioned other sensitive issues such as Tibet, human rights, and freedom of the press.

Bush was very diplomatic and did not say anything negative toward China. Bush had a great time in China and never took Costas' bait and said nothing that would raise the ire of the Chinese people.

Something that will always raise their ire is the media's continued obsession with the Tibetan protesters. The Western media always covers the protests by the Tibetans but refuses to cover Chinese issues such as the CNN protest which happened a few months ago.

When a CNN broadcaster made inflammatory remarks towards China, the Bay Area Chinese community took action and organized a protest at the CNN offices.  The only media presence at the protest were Asian newspapers. I guess the Western media didn't think the protest was newsworthy enough to send any reporters to cover the protest.

The racism towards the Chinese have been going on for a long time. It seems "cool" to take shots at Asians since the media and others know there won't be any serious repercussions by doing so.

You can hear and see the racism online, in print, on television, and also on the radio.

For example, this evening, I heard KNBR's afternoon sports show host Tom Tolbert say the word "Chinaman" on the air.

That word is offensive to Asians just as the "N" word is offensive to blacks.  Anyone calling an Asian man a Chink or Chinaman is racist.

KNBR is a hugely popular sports station in the Bay Area and Tolbert's show in the afternoon, in which he co-hosts with Ralph Barbieri, is the most popular show on the station with the highest ratings.

Tolbert, who was once a Warriors scrub in the 90's, then proceeded to tell us the story of the "41-year-old Chinaman" and why the man had to call the cops in the middle of the night at a park.

Tolbert made sure that all the listeners knew the man was Chinese.

The story was sickening and grotesque. I guess the management of KNBR encourages him to tell such disgusting and sophomoric stories, but they should not tolerate his racial slurs.

Another remark made by a sportscaster that has infuriated some Asians is NBC's Jim Lampley's description of the USA Basketball team's win over China on Sunday. Lampley called it a "destruction of China."

I talked to some Asian men today at a basketball court in San Francisco, and they told me that the slights are on purpose. Many of them feel that the media is racist and biased against Asians.

25-year-old Eric Yang of San Francisco said that racism is something all Asians face daily.

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