They Call Me Mellow Yellow
By Wyatt Earp | February 10, 2010
Okay, everyone break out your P.C. Dictionary. We have a few changes to make.
Apparently, the word “Yellow” is the new N-Word. Who knew? The delicious soft drink Mello Yello? It’s the beverage of choice for racist white trash. The classic song Mellow Yellow? Oh, it’s a rabidly racist ditty. Personally, I think Donovan should be taken outside and beaten with a switch for being such a bigot.
Lousy racist songwriters. They’re ruining everything!
Asian-American grievance-mongers and “diversity” bureaucrats in Atlanta need to justify their existence and their salaries.
They found the perfect opportunity. Cry “yellow!”:
Asian-American activists offended that MARTA re-named the train line into the heart of Atlanta’s Asian community the “yellow line” will take their objections to the transit agency’s chief on Friday.
“Yellow,” as a term for skin color, carries a generally negative, racist connotation among Asians.
Puh-lease. That’s not racist. This is racist:
During almost every NHL game, some commentator notes that a puck “hit a chink in the boards.” Every time I hear that I immediately think, “Wow, they get all the good seats.” Ba-dump-bump!
“Historically, it has had a derogatory intent,” said John Park, an attorney with the nonprofit Center for Pan Asian Community Services in Doraville, just down the hill from the Marta station. “It physically paints a very unattractive picture. I don’t consider myself ‘yellow.’”
Then why all the anger? I am certainly not “white” – well, maybe in the dead of winter – so does that mean I can fly into a rage when someone doesn’t call me a “beige guy?”
This is much ado about nothing. People need to get a life.
Topics: Snarkasm | 18 Comments »
February 10th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Maybe we could ban all writing and speech. Verbally we could just use oinks, grunts and squeaks and when we write and/or type just use !, @, #, $, %, ^, & *. That way when Wyatt posts a picture of Jessica Beil the comments would be :
**$#@ oink oink ^^%$* grunt grunt %^ #@!$ *&^%$
which are understandable to men everywhere. It would work for us.
February 10th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Yellow is not too kind to journalists either. But then again, they deserve to be reviled.
BTW I resent being called “soft”, “pink” and “squishy”. Not to fond of “bald” either. Although all do seem, alas, to apply.
February 10th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
“Maybe we could ban all writing and speech.”
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February 10th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Just amazing. I suppose the Red Line in Atlanta probably goes to Braves Stadium.
February 10th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
I am the Frito Bandito.
February 10th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
“Yellow” isn’t derogatory; gook, slant, slope and zipper head are.
February 10th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Alright RG, and don’t forget the dinks. Little yellow fiends.
February 10th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
Randal, you left out Fingernail Rancher (a lot of Asians own nail salons).
February 10th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
I looked it up the Blue goes to Indian Springs. Now the Smurfs are going to start protesting.
February 10th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Where do people get the notion that they are deserving of protection from derogatory comments? Where in the constitution are they granted this protection? Why do we patronize this pandering to extremist political correctness? Everybody has the right to feel offended by a remark if they so choose, but nobody has the right to be protected against ever being offended by any remark, especially when there is no intent to offend present. Anything different is, in my humble opininon, bullshit.
February 10th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
In truth, “gook” is an abridgement of a Korean word. Hangook (Hahn Gook) means a Korean, Migook (pronounced Me Gook)means an American, Yonggook means a Brit. I’m sure it became a slur during the Korean war but in reality we are all gooks.
February 10th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Forgive my quote copy there, I don’t know how that happened. I thought I copied and pasted the following but didn’t look at it until I posted.
Randal Graves Says:
February 10th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
“Yellow” isn’t derogatory; gook, slant, slope and zipper head are.
February 10th, 2010 at 11:24 pm
For derogatory Asian slang watch clint eastwood in gran torino
February 11th, 2010 at 5:55 am
Hmmm…I always thought “yellow” meant one was a coward.
What word will be next? Any guesses?
February 11th, 2010 at 7:51 am
The next word will be..antidisestablishmentarionism…
(somebody had to do it).
February 11th, 2010 at 8:42 am
I am so weary of all this PC crap. From now on I guess it’s “hey, you” or “dude”. Geez, enough already!
February 11th, 2010 at 8:45 am
That’s it, I’m going on a race binge and suing grocery stores across the country for the following…
1. White Bread
2. Saltine Crackers
3. White Sheet Cakes
4. Cracker Jacks
And anything else I can think of!
February 13th, 2010 at 11:55 am
Jon – “Oink, oink?” That’s anti-cop!
Joated – I don’t mind squishy. It’s appropriate.
Barack – Send $50 to “Transcripts” care of supportyourlocalgunfighter.com.
Ingineer66 – You mean the “Native American Line.”
Mark – Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”
Randal – “Happy birthday, zipperhead!”
tjbbpgobIII – Well played, sir.
Mrs. Crankipants – Oh, that’s nice.
Mike47 – Hell, the Founders called Jefferson’s kids “Oreos.”
Bill R. – To quote Johnny Carson, “I did not know that.”
Jimmytheclaw – I heard it was chock full of ‘em.
GroovyVic – It’ll be Groovy. Discrimination of people from Ohio.
Jon – Nice.
MeToo – That’s what I always say when I meet someone whose name I forget.
DL474 – Honkytonk?