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【好文推荐】2014-05-09 在NBA中对林书豪的种族主义 Racism in the NBA with Jeremy Lin# © 1994-2014 Dave Winer. Last update: Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:18 PM. ??http://tieba.baidu.com/mo/q/checkurl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fscripting.com%2F2014%2F05%2F08%2F%23a1399567653&urlrefer=e688f1c1cb3771babf4e5a506e2a0181 ? I loved the story of Jeremy Lin so much that it renewed my interest in the NBA. Until Linsanity, I had only been watching the NBA finals, occasionally going to a game at the Garden when I visited New York, mostly for the nostalgia rather than with any interest for the sport or the teams. I had been a Knicks fan in the glory years in the late 60s and early 70s. My grandfather worked near the Garden and had season tickets. Going to Knicks games was something we did together, so it was pretty special. # Lin renewed my interest because of the story. Smart Harvard kid from Palo Alto, both places I have a connections with. I loved the idea of someone breaking the pattern and achieving success despite not coming up the normal way. Lin hadn't been anyone's pick for Rookie of the Year, or a featured college player. He wasn't drafted out of college by any NBA team. He was barely holding on, about to get rejected when he caught fire. It was the kind of story they used to make movies about. # The racism Lin's success spawned was greater and more widespread than anything Donald Sterling said. It's so much more dangerous, because as has been pointed out by NBA commentators, the NBA is largely a black league. In that dimension the NBA is a model of people working together across racial barriers. But this was not so for Asians as was made very clear by the open and largely unpunished racism that Lin evoked, and the quiet and more subtle kind that's hard to prove.# What was especially sweet about Lin was how he drew people of Asian background to the Knicks during the Linsanity period. There are a lot of Asians in NYC. My old neighborhood in Queens is now one of the largest Chinese communities outside of Asia. Today's Asian kids, people of Jeremy Lin's generation, accomplish so much in all areas, and now in athletics too. Their pride was wonderful to see. Again, the stuff of schmaltzy hard-to-believe movies.# So when we fix the problems with the Clippers, maybe we can also have a look at the Knicks. Their owner, James Dolan, is very much still there, and unchallenged about what happened in that period. Why isn't Lin still on the Knicks? I would love to hear more about that, both as a Knicks fan, and as a human being. #
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