Here is the notorious Chinese-American Confederate ESPN sports announcer, Robert Lee, preparing to depart a boarding house in Gettysburg, Penn., to give the shot-by-shot announcing of the days' combat between Union and Confederate forces there.
Yes, it's true. ESPN pulled sports announcer Robert Lee, whose actual face is above, from announcing the University of Virginia football game last Saturday because the network was worried they'd get blasted on Twitter for having a man with such a triggering name on the radio, what with Charlottesville's demonstrations under way.
But why would an American of Chinese descent be named Robert Lee?
First of all, Lee is the second-most common Chinese name, sometimes transliterated Li. So it is quite possible that fact explains his surname (Chinese: 李; pinyin: Lǐ).
As for Robert? Well, no one has said how long ago his Chinese ancestor(s) came to America - it could have been as long ago as before the Civil War. So it's no surprise that he would have an identifiably American-British first name.
My earliest American ancestor migrated to North Carolina in 1736 from Germany. His first name was Jakob, pronounced Yah-kuhb. And yet my first name is Donald, of Scottish-Gaelic origin. Go figure.
Photoshop found here.
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