ESPN Max Bretos Correctly uses Chink in the armor

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Last night ESPN anchor Max Bretos used the term "Chink in the Armor" about the amazing young man Jeremy Lin. After a tough lost and 9 turnovers, Max Bretos used the term to describe a weakness in Jeremy's game. Since then the comment as gone viral with many saying the term is racist. ESPN has issued an apology for the statement, and while the coincidence of Jeremey's Chinese background and the origin of a slang word "Chink" is unfortunate no one has ever connected the two phrases before. To try and do this now is only to create controversy and only shows what our society has become. We want to believe the worst of others instead of the best. We judge everyone by their actions and never by their intentions, yet we always judge ourselves by our intentions.





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Last night ESPN anchor Max Bretos used the term "Chink in the Armor" about the amazing young man Jeremy Lin. After a tough lost and 9 turnovers, Max Bretos used the term to describe a weakness in Jeremy's game. Since then the comment as gone viral with many saying the term is racist. ESPN has issued an apology for the statement, and while the coincidence of Jeremey's Chinese background and the origin of a slang word "Chink" is unfortunate no one has ever connected the two phrases before. To try and do this now is only to create controversy and only shows what our society has become. We want to believe the worst of others instead of the best. We judge everyone by their actions and never by their intentions, yet we always judge ourselves by our intentions.



For reference here are the meanings of the two Phrases:

Chink in one's armor "Dating back to 1400s"

A vulnerable area, as in Putting things off to the last minute is the chink in Pat's armor and is bound to get her in trouble one day . This term relies on chink in the sense of "a crack or gap," a meaning dating from about 1400 and used figuratively since the mid-1600s.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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