Olympic Spanish Basketball Players—Not Funny

Hmm… let me see if I’ve got this right… Members of the Spanish men and women’s basketball teams work hard and earn a trip to China to compete for an Olympic medal. But, before they leave their homeland they decide to pose for a newspaper ad in which they place their hands on their faces and pull the skin near their eyes to make them look as slanted as possible. “Chinese eyes,” claims one Spanish player. “How funny.” Not so much if you are Chinese. Long story short the chuckleheads on the Spanish basketball team are now apologizing—–publicly—for they call … Continue reading