No offence was intended by the players or the Spanish federation of Funny Guys and Gals Who Play Sports, say the perps. The first is an ad for a sponsor. The second is a team web site foto.
These Spanish people are equal-opportunity offenders. They called black soccer players monkeys in Madrid in 2004, and the coach made cracks about a mixed-race French player (and got fined). Called him “that black shit” in a pep talk to his team. (Very appealing guy the s. player, as in this video.)
Am finding it tres amusing myself, something maybe to puncture, if slightly, the international cocoon of correctitude and restoring maybe the “sticks and stones may break my bones” attitude of old.
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Reader D:
I should be shunned along with you and the low-life Spanish athletes.Seeing the photos, all I could think of was “The good old days, when we could be stupid and get stupid-back-at-us, and no one cut anyone’s head off because of a cartoon. Skin was thicker in those ancient times when your saying “Stix and stones, etc.” was a kid’s national anthem.
Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.
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