San Francisco's Chinatown, where this photo was taken, is the country's oldest, and owes its appearance in large part "to Chinese merchants who, after the 1906 earthquake, paid white architects to come up with an Oriental look that would be appealing and acceptable to a general public that had come to view the Chinese with racist eyes".
The artist recently shared a preview of his upcoming song "Butterfly Doors" on Instagram, featuring the lyrics "They call me Yao Ming 'cause my eyes real low (ching chong)." He also pulled his eyes back in the racist slant-eye gesture. .
These opinions don't make you a racist in my eyes or anyone else's.
Professors organized students of color to sit in the middle of the stage and look Murray, whose work cited racist pseudoscience, in the eye, but he was allowed to speak.
In the winter of 2017, Vancouver City Council unanimously adopted a motion to determine which city assets had racist histories, with an eye to renaming them.
Events like this help to make Nick Griffin and the BNP seem legitimate in the eyes of racist voters.
However, some of the words chosen to describe him suggest that, other than being a beer drinker and, in some eyes, a racist, he is not so different: still "smug", "posh" and "opportunistic".
I looked at my children, who have epicanthal folds of varying degrees, and wondered how this racist representation of Chinese eyes was sinking into their psyches.
It has no sign, but instead features a mural of famous Franks Zappa, -enstein, old Philly mayor and noted racist Frank Rizzo, old blue eyes and noted racist Frank Sinatra on both of its outside corner walls.
In my Republican days, any time a Democrat started talking about how some Republican policy or act was racist, I rolled my eyes and thought Reagan-esquely, there they go again….
