西班牙男篮奥运期间发生的事，曾就此致函Calderon谴责。Calderon已复函道歉。最近Raptors 来本地集训，才想起给大家看看：
原函：
from xxxxxxx <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
to email@josemanuelcalderon.com
date Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:46 PM
subject Shame
you ought to feel ashamed for posing in racist ad and showing no
remorse while some of your teammates appologized.
obviously you haven't learned anything by living in a multi-culture
country like Canada and playing in a city like Toronto. you will have
more fans back in your country which has a poor sport reputation (e.g.
for making racist remarks against black athletes), but i can assure
you that you will now have a lot less fans here in this country.
Calderon复函:
correo@josemanuelcalderon.com
to xxxxxxx <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
date Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:54 AM
subject Re: Shame
Hi,
After the large controversy regarding the photo taken of the Spanish
National Basketball Team, I have begun to understand that for some of you,
our pose was not well received, and was even offensive.
You have explained to me the significance of the action that I had not yet
grasped. I first want to ask for your forgiveness and second, to thank you
for your explanation. For those who personally know me and those who see
me play, I think that you know very well that there is nothing further
from my personality than being inappropriate. You have the most absolute
assurance that none of the players on the National Team, including myself,
would have accepted to have the photograph taken with our gestures if it
had crossed our mind that it could result in offending even a single
person in the world. Frankly we did not know that it could be negative or
hurtful, and it was not our intention to offend anyone.
We live in a global world but at times we are not informed of all of the
sensitivities or feelings of the cultures and races. I want to take this
controversy as a personal education so that it will help me to deepen my
knowledge with respect to the differences in these cultures from mine so
that a similar situation will never happen again.
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with me,
Jose Manuel Calderon
原函：
from xxxxxxx <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
to email@josemanuelcalderon.com
date Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:46 PM
subject Shame
you ought to feel ashamed for posing in racist ad and showing no
remorse while some of your teammates appologized.
obviously you haven't learned anything by living in a multi-culture
country like Canada and playing in a city like Toronto. you will have
more fans back in your country which has a poor sport reputation (e.g.
for making racist remarks against black athletes), but i can assure
you that you will now have a lot less fans here in this country.
Calderon复函:
correo@josemanuelcalderon.com
to xxxxxxx <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
date Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:54 AM
subject Re: Shame
Hi,
After the large controversy regarding the photo taken of the Spanish
National Basketball Team, I have begun to understand that for some of you,
our pose was not well received, and was even offensive.
You have explained to me the significance of the action that I had not yet
grasped. I first want to ask for your forgiveness and second, to thank you
for your explanation. For those who personally know me and those who see
me play, I think that you know very well that there is nothing further
from my personality than being inappropriate. You have the most absolute
assurance that none of the players on the National Team, including myself,
would have accepted to have the photograph taken with our gestures if it
had crossed our mind that it could result in offending even a single
person in the world. Frankly we did not know that it could be negative or
hurtful, and it was not our intention to offend anyone.
We live in a global world but at times we are not informed of all of the
sensitivities or feelings of the cultures and races. I want to take this
controversy as a personal education so that it will help me to deepen my
knowledge with respect to the differences in these cultures from mine so
that a similar situation will never happen again.
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with me,
Jose Manuel Calderon
