Yes Yuli Gurriel, That Was A Racist Gesture

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Asian Fanbase

Both LA and Houston have a significantly large Asian community.

In fact, the Dodgers and the Astros both have a large Asian-American and Asian base, with baseball being a global team sport much like soccer and basketball.

So when a highly paid professional MLB player does something "ethnically offensive" or at the very least potentially offensive against another MLB player, one should probably wonder "what was he thinking?". And what is worse is that the offending party is also a minority and also battling similar barbs against his ethnicity himself.

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The sad part is that it is not uncommon and not uncool for Asians to be lumped together and mocked and ridiculed; and the common gestures and comments are with facial expressions, mostly pertaining with the eyes, or the mouth, or the nose or the accent or the height or the size or with their stereotypical driving skills or lack thereof. All of which, in case you yourself have a doubt, are derogatory, offensive and yes racist and not cool.

But what I do not understand really is that other minorities are the ones typically guilty of these classless and ignorant acts. And worst of all, it is from these same minorities come naive people who defend and give excuses as to why these kinds of jabs aren't racist. Really? It is only racist when others attack you? And if it against Asians, it is okay?

Class Act

I do not need to post the video showing the gesture plus the mouthed spanish word made by Yulieski Gurriel towards Yu Darvish. Such act is childish, unprofessional and uncalled for, to say the least.

And for the record, any other person defending this act is even more despicable. Shame on you.

Asians and Asians in America have been at the receiving end of this and other kinds of derogatory remarks but even so, historically most Asians respond with patience, dignity and bearing, like Darvish did. Other minorities who do these kinds of things or defend these kinds of acts should he ashamed of themselves or better yet stop crying when others do similar things to them. Time to ANTS UP Asians. But like Yu Darvish, do so with class and professionalism.

Darvish responding to the "Yuli Gesture"

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