WTF Martell??

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Wt f'ing F ????

 

[Charcoal Filtered]

I am white and have an easily pronounceable last name that gets screwed up all the time. Am I allowed to throw around racial slurs?

 

[julius]

I am white and have an easily pronounceable last name that gets screwed up all the time. Am I allowed to throw around racial slurs?

only cabbage related ones.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I'm just curious if anyone actually knows what bokchoy is supposed to mean?

Like calling a black person watermelon or a mexican person a chimichanga or a white person cornbread

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I am white and have an easily pronounceable last name that gets screwed up all the time. Am I allowed to throw around racial slurs?

It's totally fine to say whatever to asians since we are a successful minority and don't take offense.

 

[riverman]

I think he's just shocked that an Asian chose a career as a cop.....probably triggered his dumb tweet. Anybody who thinks Asians are ugly white people has never shopped at Walmart before

 

[riverman]

Like calling a black person watermelon or a mexican person a chimichanga or a white person cornbread

Or a Filipino fish sauce.

 

[riverman]

I'm just curious if anyone actually knows what bokchoy is supposed to mean?

Asian garden vegetable...white stalks, green leaves

 

[riverman]

It's totally fine to say whatever to asians since we are a successful minority and don't listen to a word you guys say anyway.

fixed

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Or a Filipino dog

Fixed

 

[Lanny]

I've met Martell. He was the nicest guy in the world. We were at a Starbucks near Beaverton Fred Meyer. After he left, I saw him help an old lady get her groceries in the trunk of her car.

I've also seen him as a spectator at one of our games. He was well mannered.

I wonder if he could have misunderstood the officer. I once replied to an African-American "I know what you mean, boy" and I didn't mean it the way he took it. I meant it the same as "Wow man, I hear what you're saying." but I was not alert enough to think of that. This guy was the nicest and I had the utmost respect for him. Still do to this day.

 

[KingSpeed]

I've met Martell. He was the nicest guy in the world. We were at a Starbucks near Beaverton Fred Meyer. After he left, I saw him help an old lady get her groceries in the trunk of her car.

I've also seen him as a spectator at one of our games. He was well mannered.

I wonder if he could have misunderstood the officer. I once replied to an African-American "I know what you mean, boy" and I didn't mean it the way he took it. I meant it the same as "Wow man, I hear what you're saying." but I was not alert enough to think of that. This guy was the nicest and I had the utmost respect for him. Still do to this day.

Yea, 'Boy' is what most black men were called as slaves so that's not good.

 

[riverman]

Fixed

Actually the best would have to be Filipino cock fighting...it's sort of a nat'l pastime like Sumo is to the Japanese

 

[Natebishop3]

I've met Martell. He was the nicest guy in the world. We were at a Starbucks near Beaverton Fred Meyer. After he left, I saw him help an old lady get her groceries in the trunk of her car.

I've also seen him as a spectator at one of our games. He was well mannered.

I wonder if he could have misunderstood the officer. I once replied to an African-American "I know what you mean, boy" and I didn't mean it the way he took it. I meant it the same as "Wow man, I hear what you're saying." but I was not alert enough to think of that. This guy was the nicest and I had the utmost respect for him. Still do to this day.

I met him quite a few times as well, but that was when he was still just a kid. I have no idea what he's like now.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I met him quite a few times as well, but that was when he was still just a kid. I have no idea what he's like now.

He's pretty weird I think

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

 

[SlyPokerCat]

Yea, 'Boy' is what most black men were called as slaves so that's not good.

While fucked up, sometimes it rolls off the tongue and you don't mean it in a derogatory way whatsoever. I did not know "boy" was offensive until Dviss said so. Because I treated blacks, whites, asians, latinos as if they were all just people. Many millenials were raised that way. To see past color. Do I try not to say "boy" to black people? Of course. But I have anxiety around people I'm not close with. If I see an acquaintance, and I'm like "fuck man, you're my boy!" After I've had a few, or the boys are going out tonight, or boy, we getting drunk tonight. The intent is not there in a derogatory way. If someone told me, that's offensive I would apologize profusely.

 

[julius]

Best part of that show was when Cotton looked him up and down and goes "No he ain't. He's Laotian. Ain't you Mr Kahn?"



Man, they need to bring back King of the Hill

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

People have mispronounced my name about a million times. From now on I'm calling those people bokchoy. And tweeting about it. Because I have to.

You and your white privilege....

 

[e_blazer]

Maybe Martell was under the misapprehension that it made him look smart:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/nul...ain-shocking-details-of-his-racism/vp-AAyAJ2K

 

[BBert]

I think he's saying Asians have the privilege of being ugly Whites. I'm not very Twitter literate, though, so I might have misinterpreted.

In Martell's defense, maybe we all look alike to him.

 

[THE HCP]

I’ve shown up and not had car rental and hotel reservations because of my last name. It’s mispronounced EVERYDAY.
Only time somebody looked at it and said it right was customs in Athens.

L....U....K...R....O...F...K....A.....

 

[THE HCP]

Marty is a good guy, not sure where all this came from.

 

[jlprk]

Details emerging. Turns out he was supposed to be later in the police lineup, but they called him up sixth, right after Felton.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I’ve shown up and not had car rental and hotel reservations because of my last name. It’s mispronounced EVERYDAY.
Only time somebody looked at it and said it right was customs in Athens.

L....U....K...R....O...F...K....A.....

You travel under your own name?

How many other Emmy award winners do that?

 

[crandc]

Martell, "it's" with apostrophe means it is. "Its" is possessive. No apostrophe.

WTF indeed.

 

[illmatic99]

Damn, wtf Webster lol.

I always found him to be one of the more thoughtful and respectful NBA players so it's kinda weird seeing him say this.

Huh? He's always been one of the least mentally stable players in the league.

 

[The Professional Fan]

This is really freaking weird. I don't understand any of it.

 

[Chris Craig]

A police officer once pronounced my name crease so I called him arugula

 

[Chris Craig]

But, for real the only person I have ever refered to as a vegtable was my second grade teacher. She was a very strict older lady and her hair looked like a giant brocoli stalk so we called her Mrs. Brocolihead