Jeremy Lin has really become the face of the NBA's popularity this past month, he is the big name ticket seller that franchises dream about. For three hours yesterday, before being removed, ESPN released a headline about the Knicks loss titled "Chink in the armour." This of course was a racial slur against Asian-American Jeremy Lin, and this just proves that the press can hype a player while he is doing well and do so by emphasizing his race or religious views (Tim Tebow).
It is insulting that we live in a society where a player who is not African-American gets attention because of the color of his skin. It is 2012, let us act mature about athletes and not judge them by the way they look. People are all over Lin's popularity, but why is it no one talks about Maria Sharapova's popularity as the "hot" tennis player, Danica Patrick being a female racer, or the Klitschko brothers being white champions of heavyweight boxing. The world needs to stop judging people on sex and race, why can't Jeremy Lin the "great Asian basketball player" be Jeremy Lin "great basketball player?"
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