{"id":4346,"date":"2008-04-20T07:44:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T14:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/?p=650"},"modified":"2008-04-20T07:44:35","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T14:44:35","slug":"horry-cow-that%e2%80%99s-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4346","title":{"rendered":"That\u2019s Racist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/p>\n<p>Phil blogs about Chicago Cubs fans buying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angryasianman.com\/2008\/04\/welcome-to-chicago-fukudome.html\">racist themed t-shirts<\/a> to &#8220;celebrate&#8221; their first Japanese player, Kosuke Fukudome:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As you can see above, on the front of the shirt is the traditional Cubs cartoon bear face but with slanted eyes and wearing oversized Harry Caray-sized glasses. It&#8217;s accompanied by the words &#8220;Horry Cow&#8221; in cartoonish &#8220;Japanese&#8221; script. (The late Caray was the Cubs&#8217; longtime announcer, and among his catchphrases was, &#8220;Holy cow!&#8221;) Fukudome&#8217;s name and number are on the back.<\/p>\n<p>Great. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s worse\u2014the fact that somebody (who is apparently &#8220;an Oriental guy&#8221;) made this shirt, or that it&#8217;s so damn popular amongst Chicago fans. What a way to welcome the franchise&#8217;s first Japanese player. <em>That&#8217;s racist!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/categories\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/650\/\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/tags\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/650\/\" \/> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/650\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/650\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/650\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/650\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/650\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/650\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/650\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/650\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/650\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/650\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blogbullet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=743885&amp;post=650&amp;subd=blogbullet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil blogs about Chicago Cubs fans buying racist themed t-shirts to &#8220;celebrate&#8221; their first Japanese player, Kosuke Fukudome:<br \/>\nAs you can see above, on the front of the shirt is the traditional Cubs cartoon bear face but with slanted eyes and wearing oversized Harry Caray-sized glasses. It&#8217;s accompanied by the words &#8220;Horry Cow&#8221; in cartoonish &#8220;Japanese&#8221; [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4346\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}