Sometime today, Radio host Tony Bruno referred to San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Ramon Ramirez as an "illegal alien."
The manager of the club, Bruce Bochy, said this was a racist comment, and several people on CBSSportsline have been commenting on the news, calling Bruno a racist and demanding that he be fired.
And I disagree.
"Illegal alien" is a descriptive term for someone who is in this country illegally. That includes a wide array of people. Mexicans are most in the news, the Chinese illegal problem is being virtually ignored (to our peril. (You'll only see a couple of episodes on shows like Law and Order and Law and Order SVU which shows that Asian women are being brought into this country to be prostitutes).
In any event, if you call someone an illegal alien and he isn't one, that's just an innacurate description.
Now, would Bruno have called a white player an "illegal alien?" No. Because he doesn't associate whites as illlegals, whereas everyone knows that we have a tremendous Mexican illegal alien problem. Call it a Freudian slip on his part, but again, not racist.
In any event, the guy says one thing, and for this he deserves to lose his job? ____________
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