(Courtesy of Cashill Newsletter - February 19, 2000)
By Jack Cashill
As has become apparent to the world, Atlanta Braves relief pitcher, John Rocker, does not like riding the New York City subway. As he confided to a Sports Illustrated writer, he finds it "depressing" to share so confined a space with "some kid with purple hair" or "some queer with AIDS" or "some dude who just got out of jail" or a "20-year-old mom with four kids."
As Rocker also notes candidly, "I'm not a very big fan of foreigners." It depresses him too that New York is rife with "Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people" who don't speak English. No doubt about it, Rocker's remarks are crude, insensitive, and xenophobic. But they are not exactly racist, nor particularly novel coming from an unschooled 25-year-old. Truth be told, you can regularly hear this kind of talk not only in the sports bars of Rocker's Macon, Georgia but in those of Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, even Harlem.
Whole blog entry if you're interested- it's not that long.
Daily Show's take on the whole story:
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