Shaquille O'Neal has already apologised for his mock Chinese dialect on a television show when talking about Chinese center Yao Ming, but is his apology really enough?  If you ask Terry Foster of the Detroit News that answer is a certain no.

'One of my best friends growing up was a Japanese-American from Minnesota named Rosanne. She told me never to refer to her as Oriental because she said it was the same as calling a black person colored,' writes Foster. 'Let's say Yao gets on television and uses a mock black dialect. If he did, there would be an uproar from black people. We'd boo Yao the next time he came to The Palace for a Pistons game.'

And on Shaq's apology? 'Well, Fuzzy Zoeller was just joking when he said he hoped Tiger Woods wouldn't serve fried chicken and collard greens at the Master's champions dinner. '

Jemal Horton of the Indianapolis Star goes one step further and writes that the NBA should fine and/or suspend O'Neal for his comments.

'Racist is the only way to describe O'Neal's alleged joke, which was punctuated by a kung fu move. How could it be anything but racist?'