It's not just the Spanish Basketball team....try the Tennis team as well!!! (footballers, soccer)

[brikag]

As an Asian-American, I am totally outraged at the stupidity of the Spanish people. This is not a gesture of being funny or friendly to the Chinese people. It's an insult! I wrote to both the IOC and BOCOG and attached the Spanish team website expressing the disturbing images that the spanish team seem to think is OK.

That's my story.......

Real Federación Española de Tenis >> Galería de Fotos (http://www.rfet.es/galeria/001.php?j=1&id=32&subid=32&offset=800&ide=22 - broken link)

Real Federación Española de Tenis >> Galería de Fotos (http://www.rfet.es/galeria/verFoto.php?id=579 - broken link)

[mr.man]

Disgusting, racism is a cancer I fear we as people will never cure

[dxiweodwo]

Originally Posted by mr.man

Disgusting, racism is a cancer I fear we as people will never cure

couldn't have said it better myself


yeah, I don't know what goes on through the Spaniards minds when they're playing sports, or are they just naturally like that??

[happynoodleboycey]

This may just me being naïve but I don't think they are doing it to be racist, I think they are just totally out of touch with what is acceptable and unacceptable. Why would a country want to show themselves up to be racist on the world stage in front of possibly the largest audience you will ever get? I think it is good-natured but they just drastically misread how people would take/view it.

[dxiweodwo]

^^
I think they were trying to be funny...but it didn't work.

[mr.man]

Spain has done this before. Fans' racism returns to taint games in Italy and Spain - International Herald Tribune Israel Soccer Player to Head Anti-Racism Initiative (http://racerelations.about.com/b/2006/03/08/israel-soccer-player-to-head-anti-racism-initiative.htm - broken link)

[dxiweodwo]

^^
they're famous for pretty much making black footballers lives a living nightmare during the soccer games.....it's actually quite disgusting

[Steve-o]

Screw em. Simple as that. Buncha wankers!

[Galloway]

Lol relax everybody. They are not doing it to be racist, they just don't know any better. They have a different culture than in the US.

Even when i lived in Russia, it was common there to openly say the "N" word. Nobody thought anything of it.

It seems that Americans and Canadians overall are a little uptight when it comes to race compared to the rest of the world.

[Cornerguy1]

Let's stick to just one thread on this topic, shall we?