Keith Brooks’ response to Paul Beebe on the Tuesday edition has a disclaimer about using a racist term save his use of Uncle Ben, which in some places does have racist connotations. We do not disagree, but we differ in that it is also a term of endearment in many places in Asia-Uncle and Auntie being a honorific title to anyone one considers as belonging to one\u2019s kind, racial or otherwise. There is a double entendre usage, perhaps, with regards to “Uncle Ben,” our governor, but then, paradoxes is a common fare in this part of the world, the taiji\/yin-yang, being the primary symbol in East Asia. So references to Uncle Ben might be needling, after a fashion, at least, from our end, but it is not meant to be unkind.<\/p>\n
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