Maybe it is permissible to use sickening invective about “yellow chumps” like Manny Pacquiao.
Maybe you can get a free pass for insulting Filipinos because, after all, theirs remains a poverty stricken, Third World nation.Maybe ripping and raking the prizefighter and others from his country is not considered incendiary hate speech.
But imagine if Floyd Mayweather, the African American racist, had made the same kind of derogatory remarks about Caucasians or about Jewish people or about Mexicans.
Surely there would be a major firestorm of controversy and a harsh backlash against for Mayweather's clownish Ustream video performance.
Surely leading figures in boxing, some of whom have their hands in both the pockets of Pacman and the maniacal Mayweather, would be admonishing “Money May” and publicly saying that, with all its other problems, boxing does not need to become the guttermost of all sports.
Imagine if Mayweather had ripped Miguel Cotto and disrespected all Puerto Ricans. Or if Mayweather had used vulgar and demeaning references to his admirer Paulie Malignaggi and to Italians and Italian Americans.
But, so far anyway, we only hear silence from the suits at HBO, whose boxing operation is directed by a Jewish man (Ross Greenburg) and his lieutenants, African American Kery Davis and Luis Barragan who is of Mexican descent.
And mum's the word from the presidents of the sanctioning bodies, the heads of the Mexico-based WBC, the Panama and Venezuela based WBA, the Puerto Rico based WBO and the New jersey based IBF whose new leader is African American Darryl Peoples.
Not to let Reebok and AT&T off the hook, either, as they have paid Mayweather for endorsements and appearing in a nationally televised commerical.
Will those big companies now cut Mayweather adrift, let him simmer in his own twisted race baiting?
Big corporations dumped Tiger Woods just for being a wildly adulterous horndog.
Are all these people afraid of speaking out against Mayweather's foul mouth and stupidity? By their complete silence, aren't they almost giving Mayweather license or co-signing his ethnic and racial hatred focused on Pacquiao and his countrymen?
Maybe the unfunniest guy in Hollywood, that cretin named Adam Carolla, was right when he made a vicious verbal attack on Pacquiao in particular and Pinoys in general.
Maybe Carolla knew that he could get away with it because those Filipinos don't really matter in the big scheme of things.
Sure, they make competent nurses and are adequate as cruise ship line waiters and busboys.
They really know to handle bedpans and dirty dishes, right?
And that Pacquiao is a darned good prizefighter.
You get a free pass, not only to talk about Pinoys eating dogs, but to talk about Filipinos as though they were merely dogs.
All or almost all other ethnic, racial and religious groups, they are off limits.
Do not slur the Irish Catholics, the Danes or the Albanians, though.
But, when it comes to Filipinos as a group or Pacquiao as an individual target of hatred, don't worry...just be nasty as you want to be.
Make Pacquiao, make all Pinoys your personal pinata in the most vile and foul language you want to.
You can always dump on the “yellow chumps.”
You get a free pass and no punishment for doing that.
(mlcmarley@aol.com)
Source: examiner.com
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