Same crap, different day

So Sam Yoon is running for mayor of Boston.  Undoubtedly people everywhere are yelling, “EEEK!  An Asian!  One of them furriners!”

Because here’s the illustration used by the Boston Phoenix about the mayoral race:

Thanks to Slant Eye for the Round Eye.

That’s incumbent Mayor Menino rising naked (!) out of a Chinese take-out box, chopsticks in hand.  Because of course whenever you see a name like Yoon, you think of naked white men and Chinese food.  Not to mention fortune cookies, dragons, the Oriental Font, the cone-shaped hat and all those other signifiers that indicate you lack imagination and just want to fall back on tired old stereotypes.

Yoon is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard (does this sound familiar to anyone?), is a member of the city council and belongs to the New Majority, a coalition of Boston people of color.  Impressive credentials, but …