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To: bentway who wrote (393736)	6/24/2008 12:45:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578738

John McCain's racist remark very troubling I think its hard for some of these guys north of 60 to work through their racist opinions. Yesterday, Don Imus did it again. He trashed a black football player who had gotten into trouble. He's old school and needs to be taken off the air. Contrary to McCain's attempt to narrowly define "gook" to mean only his "sadistic" captors, this term has historically been used to describe all Asians. McCain said that "gook" was the most "polite" term he could find to describe his captors, but because it is simply a pejorative term for Asians, he insulted his captors simply by calling them "Asians" -- a clearly disturbing message. To the Asian American community, the term is akin to the racist word "nigger." A friend of mine, a white male Vietnam veteran, pointed out that veterans, especially Vietnam veterans, know how spiteful the term "gook" is. It has everything to do with labeling someone as "other," the enemy and yellow. McCain sent the message that all Asians are foreigners and remain forever the "other" and the enemy. Its why McCain can't be president of this country.......he doesn't seem to understand that when you are at war, people do bad things......Vietnamese did bad things, Americans did bad things. You don't insult a whole race of people for the next 40 years because those bad things happened.