-----Original Message-----
From: Anton Kirilov
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 11:41 AM
To: SOC Bulgarians at MS
Subject: FW: Statiya v Newsweek - protestirayte
Molya pratete protestno pismo ot wasichki washi e-mails do
NEWSWEEK. Napishete PROTEST! w rubrikata na pismoto i kopirayte
texta po-dolu.
Blagodarya wi predwaritelno.
Daniel Belovarsky
Bulgarian Velikden Independent Group
http://www.velikden-bg.org
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/709438.asp?cp1=1
Our objection is against the remark made in the Feb. 25 issue 2002
of NEWSWEEK Magazine by Sharon Begley in her article "Our Sport Has
Gangrene" (http://www.msnbc.com/news/709438.asp?cp1=1),
where she states:
"Even fans sympathetic to Jamie and David wondered aloud whether
they would have gotten the gold if they had been homely, bucktoothed,
balding and Bulgarian, rather than cute, charismatic Canadians. "
Tasteless words like these are an insult to Bulgarians as well as to
the numerous open-minded readers of NEWSWEEK around the world. We
demand
an apology.
I would like to tell you that if you express your support you will
not be alone. Hundreds at least have already sent e-mails to the
editors
and the author.
Please e-mail your protest to
Sharon Bigley - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Eto i otgowora:
Eto che rezultata ne zakasnja:
THE ANGRY (AND BEAUTIFUL, DARN IT!) PEOPLE OF BULGARIA
"Even fans sympathetic to Jamie (Sale) and David (Pelletier)
wondered aloud whether they would have gotten the gold if they had
been homely, bucktoothed, balding and Bulgarian, rather than cute,
charismatic Canadians," writes Sharon Begley in this week's cover
story about the ice-skating pairs' controversy ["Our Sport has
Gangrene"].
The comment provoked a flood of email from angry Bulgarian
readers in the United States and abroad. "I and other Bulgarians find
the comment very offensive," writes a reader in Gloucester,
Mass. "Please take that article off and issue an apology to all
Bulgarians!"
Another reader in New York City adds, "Tasteless words like
these are an insult to Bulgarians as well as to the numerous open-
minded readers of NEWSWEEK around the world." And a reader in Sofia,
Bulgaria, writes: "I protest against the racist remark, which implies
that Bulgarians are ugly. It is pity that it appears in a respected
magazine like NEWSWEEK. I do know that the Russians are famous with
their racist jokes (they have insulting ones for every nation or
race), but again, I don't agree that Zhirinovski-like jokes should be
used in order to make some points in a serious article like this more
impressive."
And a Bulgarian, pre-law student at the University of
Georgia, calls the description "really insulting for me, no matter
what the context was, and what the author tried to achieve." By the
way, he adds, Bulgarians are not balding, and bucktoothed. Nor are
they homely. "Have you ever met in your lifetime `a living
Bulgarian'? Why do you put in a category the people of a whole
independent state?" a reader in Newport Beach, Calif. of
Begley. "Now, you can see why in some poorer parts of the world
(not "cute and charismatic" as Canada) America and Americans are
hated. Wrongfully, I have to add, but injustice feeds of itself."
(c) 2002 Newsweek, Inc.
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