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I would think that most people know this is a racial slur, especially people on television, but I guess Bobby Clampett was unaware.
During today’s (4/11) Masters broadcast, CBS announcer Bobby Clampett referred to Chinese golfer Liang Wen-Chong as “the chinaman.”
According to CBS spokeswoman LeslieAnne Wade, Clampett later apologized on the Masters webcast.
Clampett has been working Amen Corner the last two days, and his commentary can be heard both online and on DirecTV. He used the “chinaman” slur while describing Liang’s round and explaining that he will not make the cut.
The official apology is rather weak. For more anti-Chinese fun in the golfing world, one has to look no further than The Telegraph:
At the beginning of the week Colin Montgomerie said that he would have received an invitation to the Masters if he were a Chinaman. Then Monty flounced about a bit more and said that TV rights were a strange way to make up the field for a major championship.
What Monty failed to ask was why on earth the Masters committee was inviting a dodgy golfer from an even dodgier country.
How ironic it was that Monty had a pop about Liang Wen-Chong’s invitation to the Masters, not because it sends out a questionable political signal about a country with an appalling human rights record, but because commercial self-interest was not a fair way to run a golf tournament. Presumably this is the same Colin Montgomerie who has been paid vast amounts of yuan for constructing two golf courses in China and who has another one in design. This is the same Colin Montgomerie who set up a sun lounger in front of the media spotlight after Scotland won the World Cup in China last year, but uttered not a word on freedom of speech, workers’ rights, freedom of association, Tibet or Darfur.
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