Batavia Downs hosted the $125,676 finals of the Western New York Trackmaster Series on Monday (Feb.19) and in the featured TM79 match-up for $27,027, Long Train Runnin ran his win streak to five to claim the winner’s share of the purse.
Batavia, NY Batavia Downs hosted the $93,000 finals of the Western New York Trackmaster Series on Monday (Feb. 19) and in the featured TM79 match-up for $20,000, Long Train Runnin (Big Bad John) ran his win streak to five to claim the winner’s share of the purse. Proven Desire (John Cummings Jr.) led the
He was calm, rational, and insightful. We can hardly applaud the practice of yellowface
1 with which the character has become associated, but we can at least separate him from the grotesque Asian villains generated by the Yellow Peril. He was a pop-culture hero to North American audiences in an era when the western mass media vilified people of Asian descent and the laws excluded them from public life. And, despite his broken English and love of fortune cookieaphorisms, the character did not speak pidgin, as has often been stated by those critiquing the character.
He is Charlie Chan, and he has been celebrated and reviled since 1925.