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With Racist Apparel, Cubs Fans Actually Are Obnoxious
Published 4/18/2008 by PostmanE at The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.
So Marty Brennaman goes all scorched Earth on Cubs fans, and I go all scorched Earth on Marty Brennaman. I thought it was just Brennaman that deserved it, but today the Sun-Times’ Gordon Wittenmeyer, who does a great job covering the Cubs, brings up something that my friends and I have been too-quietly discussing the whole season: racist “Japanese” merchandise at Wrigley Field. The image of the drunken Cubs lout is one thing — adding a level of intolerance and ignorance to that image is another. And that’s what ...

Cubs T-Shirt Vendors: Capitalizing on Overt Racial Stereotypes
Published 4/18/2008 by PostmanR at FanHouse
Filed under: Chicago, Cubs, NL Central, MLB Fans, Featured StoriesMyself and E have been talking about this all season and now that the mainstream media has hopped on it today, it bears bringing up: these t-shirts to your right vendors are selling outside Wrigley Field are a bit insensitive. The headbands they're selling are one thing, but replacing the letter "l" with the letter "r" and making an Asian-looking face on the Cubs logo is a whole 'nother thing. And before we get into the discussion of whether or not this world of ours today is too PC or I'm overreacting, ...