Using a rather common sports idiom cost one ESPN employee his job and resulted in the 30-day suspension of another when the term “chink in the armor” was used over the weekend in a discussion that involved NBA star Jeremy Lin, who just happens to be of Asian decent. Let’s forget for a moment that we are a country of AMERICANS, not hyphenated-AMERICANS (i.e. Asian-American, African-American, etc.) and focus on the real issue involved in this situation according to ESPN. In America, it’s not only inappropriate to use words that have been determined to be racially insensitive (such as the famous “n” word), but it’s…
