Basketball As A Tool Of Geopolitical Reckoning
Racism in the world has been vanquished at last! The Olympic basketball team representing the United States of America-which fittingly embodied our post-racial society by fielding not a single white or Asian player (with good reason)-defeated the Spanish Olympic basketball team to take the gold medal early this morning. The Spanish team, you'll recall, got all that bad press for striking the "Slanty-eyed Chinaman" pose in a full-page ad. Despite Spain's protestations that the pose was all in good ching-chong-chow-fun, the world rallied behind the men from America, where basketball is an exercise in acceptance and multiculturalism. Let this be a lesson to the lesser countries of Earth: embrace the United States' gentle values, or face extermination. [Click through to see the fateful ad one last time]: