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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (158280)	1/17/2003 1:16:18 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1573952

Jim, <the press for the most part lets it slide.> Not Reuters. Now all us Asians need are some Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton types. Then we can "force" Shaq to take racial sensitivity classes, LOL! story.news.yahoo.com O'Neal Faces Protest Before Meeting Yao in Showdown HOUSTON (Reuters) - The Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) will stage a protest Friday condemning alleged racial taunts aimed at Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets (news) by Los Angeles Lakers (news) center Shaquille O'Neal (news). The protest, however, will merely serve as a backdrop for one of the most eagerly anticipated NBA clashes in recent years when Yao leads the Rockets against O'Neal and the three times champion Lakers Friday evening. The contest pitting the two big men has attracted international attention and is expected to pull in a worldwide television audience in the hundreds of millions. The OCA released a statement Thursday calling on the NBA to take a pro-active approach toward racism, saying that O'Neal's "derogatory and racial taunt" aimed at Yao on June 28 was "racially offensive and hurtful to the millions of Asian Americans" in the United States. O'Neal has brushed aside the controversy, claiming the Chinese accent he used during an interview was meant as a joke. The OCA responded by saying O'Neal's attempts at humor were a "misguided attempt to diffuse the public's outrage over his remarks and a hollow excuse to justify his prior racist statement." "Rather than sincerely apologize for being insensitive and unaware of the hurtful impact of what he claims was a joke, Mr. O'Neal issued a statement blaming those who accuse him of making inappropriate remarks of misunderstanding his humor," the statement added.