Racist Assholes Predictably Take To Twitter After U.S. Defeat of Japanese Women's Soccer Team [Racism]

Unsurprising, but still BLERGHHH. Shortly after Nadeshiko Japan, the nation's women's soccer team, lost Thursday's game to the U.S. 2-1, the terms "Jap," "Pearl Harbor" and "Hiroshima" trended on the relentless shit soufflé that is Twitter. And why not? There's no better way to celebrate a victory than namecheck historical war tragedies (literally the opposite of the point of the Olympics uniting the nations of the world, by the way) that occurred at least 40 years before any of the players were even born, right? Right?

The tweets, some of which were collected on the Japan Daily Press, are largely along the lines of "That's for Pearl Harbor," but a few contain references to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ("Haven't felt this good about beating Japan since..." et cetera.) "Long live the greatest country: America" adds one Twitter user— whose existence, ironically, is precisely what might make one question that statement. Go figure!

Last year was no better, apparently: when the Japanese women's soccer team took the World Cup against the U.S. in Germany, Japan Daily Press writer Adam Westlake remembers reading Tweets like: "Japan may have won the World Cup, but the U.S. scored the first two points with Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

So... yeah, WAY TO GO, racists! It's important to make every international event into an ugly and ignorant shitstorm.

'Japan's Olympic soccer loss brings out the Twitter racism' [Japan Daily Press]

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Black Couple Forced to Change Wedding Venue Thanks to Some Racist Churchgoers [Racism]

After setting a date and printing invitations for their July 21 wedding at the predominately white First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, Charles and Te'Andrea Wilson from nearby Jackson had what was probably a pretty awkward conversation with Pastor Stan Weatherford, who told the couple that some members of the congregation objected to their getting married in the church. In an effort to ensure that the Wilsons' wedding day wasn't ruined by a few racist ruiners, Weatherford performed the ceremony at another church.

"I didn't want to have a controversy within the church," Weatherford told local WLBT, "and I didn't want a controversy to affect the wedding of Charles and Te'Andrea. I wanted to make sure their wedding day was a special day." According to the Clarion-Ledger, the Wilsons would have been the first black couple to be married in the First Baptist Church's 150-year history, which would have been a really cool thing to boast about to grandkids, but who needs that kind of controversy on an already super-stressful day?

Churchgoer Casey Kitchens was pretty embarrassed by the fact that some members of the congregation don't realize that it's now 2012 and this whole segregation thing is getting to be, quite frankly, a little tacky. "This is a small, small group of people who made a terrible decision," said Kitchens. "I'm just ashamed right now that my church would do that. I can't fathom why. How unfair. How unjust. It's just wrong."

For his part, Charles Wilson thinks someone ought to have stood up to the few recalcitrant bigots at the First Baptist Church, and though he understands that Weatherford was caught in a tough situation, he thinks that the pastor missed a good opportunity to, you know, do whatever it is pastors do when people aren't behaving the way their religion explicitly tells them to behave.

Predominately white baptist church in Mississippi closes door to black couple's wedding [Clarion-Ledger]

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