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February 16, 2012

I've been adding updates to the bottom of my previous post on Jeremy Lin, but there's simply too much still flying across the Internet radar, and that post is already too long. So I thought I'd comment separately about the issue of Asian American identity and our embrace of the Jeremy Lin phenomenon. As I write this, the New York Knicks...

November 3, 2009

Really? Unfortunately, yeah. Sure, maybe the guy was just describing Yi's nationality, like calling a player "the Russian," But you would never call the Russian player "the Russkie" (I'm pretty sure Russkie is still a pejorative in the post-Cold war era). If he wanted to describe the nationality of Yi Jianlian of the New Jersey Nets, a veteran of the...