about the racism thing, look, some hackneyed subject are used with none bad idea at all…u can see lots of films meking fun with arabs, latins, black or jewish in the states, don´t u? so what? havent u ever use a mexican hat to speak about latin people as meaning that all overseas latin are mexicans?

yes, the idea is similar to the one u talk about…imagine the team with black paint on their face as showing that they are black people…in the states u are very sensitive to this things but, hey, u are black , i am white, he is yellow or wahtever and there´s nothing wrong on that…In spain and most of the european countries no one say ¨coloured¨and things like that because no one sees something wrong at saying black…but u can ask many black people here and they´ll tell u that they hadn´t fell bad with that…for example to LOU ROE ( http://www.gipuzkoabasket.com/equipo/roe_es.php ), an USA basketballer that plays on GIPUZKOA BASKET CLUB ( http://www.gipuzkoabasket.com/equipo/equipo-plantilla_es.php#nogo )of San Sebastian, the Basque Country, Spain, that talked about that on the nlocal newspaper…so ,what i mean is that, maybe, some people thought that it was a racist action but it was TOTALLY a joke that LI-NING new also with no one affected on China…so if they see nothing wrong in it…should we?

About the sneakers:

One of the biggest fights in China sportbrands actually are the feet of Houston Rockets players…why?as YAO MING is reebok (brand owned by adidas)for 10years, the most seen team of China must have more sponsored players, by chinese brands, of course: Scola (Argentina)AND Francis uses ANTA ( http://en.anta.com/star_Scola.php ), Battier uses PEAK ( http://www.peaksport.com/en/brand_sponsor.html ), Hayes uses LI-NING…But the biggest poinf of all is that LESLIE ALEXANDER, owner of tha rockets paid 234 millions to be the principal accionist of the brand ANTA

Damon Jones of Clevelan duses LI-NING too.

bye, and have a nice time with the ball!

Chuck Hayes has cooperated with Li-ning for a long time.

Calderon is a member of Li-ning now. see the picture above!

first off “Stephon” said most of what i was going to say…

more of a poignant image/comparison would be this…
following up with the South Africa analogy… what if the Spanish team decided to do a photoshoot all in blackface in an effort to ‘joke’ about the african “look”…. i’d like to see them deal with the ensuing outrage…
it’s the same deal – their attempt at a “this is how i think you look” joke was definitely racist…

what boggles my mind is that not ONE person in the whole process from photo to print said ANYTHING about it or even hinted at the fact that it just MIGHT be a little racist…. that’s a lot of people for a racist photo to go through and for no one to say anything about it… Photographer > the WHOLE team > Newspaper publishers

That picture was definitely racist.

How about let’s say South Africa,(which has a multi-cultural population, yet many natives remain african descent) which is holding the 2010 World Cup Soccer, and team Spain poses a team photo mimicking the “socially perceived african look” of “big lips” by using their hands to stretch out their lips, while stating that their intention was a friendly joke to the host country?
Let’s see how they can get away with that. The Chinese government was humble and tolerating enough to not lash out on the Spaniards. Try doing that to TEAM USA 2008 where all players are african americans. See what happens.

You’re an ignorant idiot for saying Yen, which is the Japanese currency.

The Chinese currency is “Yuan” or “Renmenbi”.
Make sure u repeat after me if you want to sound smart next time.

http://www.k1x.com/

btw, they’re damn awful… 1st time i saw the logo, i swore those are china-made shoe – and of all people, the 1st time i saw those were on chuck hayes feet, while clyde and co’ was busy dissing his FT routine…