That truly is the running joke among 'other races' about us Black People (or those of us who sympathize with our plight and like to indulge FULL BORE INTO OUR LIFESTYLES AND BELIEFS).
"Look at them coloreds...One of them is up there upsetting one of 'ours', getting GOLD and the ONLY THING THESE COONS CAN THINK ABOUT IS THE FACT THAT HER HAIR ISN'T LAID DOWN LIKE OURS IS..Yeah...for every one of them that is successful, there are three to four THOUSAND OF THEM bringing her down. We couldn't have drawn up this play any better if we tried man. This shit is brilliant! This is great! We've conditioned them so well. We don't even have to do shit. We can just sit back and watch them nitpick each other to death. Sure there are a small pockets of them that talk unity but that's it. They can't stand to see themselves succeed! This is truly more than we could hope for... The kicker? these coons RUN AROUND SCREAMING ABOUT 'LOYALTY' LIKE IT IS THE VOCABULARY WORD THEY LEARNED IN SCHOOL AND HAVE TURNED AROUND AND DONE THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF THAT WHEN IT COMES TO TWO OF THEIR CHAMPIONS. Ha! This shit is great! Them there niggers wouldn't know the meaning of the word loyalty if Jesus Christ himself reincarnated all of them into their favorite dogs and gave them the best 'masters' money could buy I tell ya.... "- The WORDS OF THE very White people that some of you swear you hate but are emulating by being SO CRITICAL ABOUT GABBY'S HAIR OR ZOE'S PHYSIQUE.
This is what you have armed them with though with your CONSTANT INSTANCE on 'Keeping it funky'. You've managed, once again, to take the spotlight off of a crowning achievement by a person of color and made it about the collective 'you'. The 'you' that doesn't have a pot to piss in nor window to throw it out of. Congratulations...now she has to RESPOND to you 'cause the 'media' (Read: THE WHITE PEOPLE) are out to make us look foolish as a RACE AGAIN and we've armed them with information. You fucking idiots. You happy now?
The bashing of Olympic weightlifter Zoe Smith, SIXTEEN YEAR OLD GABBY DOUGLAS and countless others & THE INSECURE FOLKS WHO DO IT..
We have to do better people. @ the comments. Now in fairness, there are a VAST MAJORITY OF YOU WHO HAVE CONDEMNED THESE COMMENTS and you should be applauded. I am not talking to you. I'm talking to the folks who 'feel they have the right to be an ass via their speech' and want to get 'offended' when someone exercises their right to say 'That's bullshit.." I'm talking to you folks.
I find it hilarisad* that so may folks feel that the need to 'disparage' and 'nitpick apart a SIXTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL who is COMPETING FOR A MEDAL. She isn't in a beauty contest. She is there to be judged on her gymnastics. I almost have to ask you..
WHO HURT YOU?? @ this constant need to ridicule, pick on, pile on, find the 'error', find the flaw, etc, etc behavior that some of you have made your M.O.
Did your Mother not pay enough attention to you? Give you enough hugs? Did the little children growing up hurt your little feelings about talk about what you had or didn't have?
Sack up man (or ovary up if you are a woman) and stop living in the past. You are adult. There's no need to 'pass the tradition' down to youth 'cause you had a sorry ass childhood/adulthood.
Yes I said adulthood 'cause some of you are out here trying to live it like it is your 'childhood' and FAILING MISERABLE AT THAT.
Maybe that is what it is..The little girl with the 'edges that you don't like' just inked a deal worth more than your ENTIRE FAMILY IS WORTH. Jealous much? I can't tell.. @ all the venom you are spewing..While you are out there scuffing up your fake red bottoms, walking barefoot in clubs and paying triple the price for drinks, the sixteen year old moved away from her family and fulfilled her dream. Gotta make you feel bad inside. That shit must BURN. (Chuckles) I know.. That was mean. So... you feel like you can be 'mean to her' and it is okay so lets it is all fair game right? Oh...
Lets not even talk about those of you whose only athletic achievement involves scuffing your knees and backshots aight? @ judging a World Class athlete on her 'looks' WHILE SHE IS EXECUTING SAID WORLD CLASS ATHLETICISM. Lets not do that shall we? Or you folks who JUST NOW DECIDED THAT EXERCISING IS THE MOVE some 20-30 years into your Life. I've seen some of you at the gym. Yikes. That's just off the treadmill...never mind what you look like after Zumba or whatever else it is you are doing. Stop it. Criticizing folks who aren't 'there to be seen as beautiful' who are in better shape than you? Yeah aight Champ.
As for the weight lifting gals or ANY OF THE OTHER GALS competing who might not be your 'cup of tea'. That's not what they are there for. Do you savages equate EVERYTHING TO YOUR LOINS? Folks aren't walking around out here, competing for Gold medals for the 'Do You Wanna Fuck Me' Olympics.. They aren't there for that. So what you wouldn't touch her with your enemies penis? Who cares? Shit, she probably doesn't want your weak as water ass either 'cause she can see your little ego is weak from a mile away.
"Other folks feel that way so it must be true.." - You
Yeah and other folks still believe in Slavery. Want to bring that back too? There is a large group of folks who want ALL FOLKS WHO AREN'T a certain color dead and gone. They out number 'us'. By definition, it is okay for them to feel and act that way if we use your dumb ass logic..-_- Shrug your shoulders and say so now but I don't wanna hear 'shit outta you' when someone takes your way of thinking and uses it to harm you.
The kicker to all of this? Some of you same handkerchief head niggas will be up in arms about something 'the white man/woman' said about some hair/preferences/etc THAT ARE TRUE because it involves 'us'. smh Let someone up in that broadcast booth have said that shit and you would be ready to riot like you are about that 'chicken'. Yet you don't see ANYTHING WRONG WITH SAYING WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT GABBY OR THE WEIGHT LIFTER BECAUSE YOU WERE 'KEEPING IT FUNKY'.
We don't need to bring each other down people. It is just that simple. There was no reason for y'all to go that hard on her. This is why I don't feel sorry when folks of 'other races' go hard on you for the REAL LIFE BULLSHIT YOU DO. You keep getting your 'hair done' correctly while living Life fucked up though. We'll see who becomes 'what'...:)
Here is Gabby's response to the comments she has received..
http://thegrio.com/2012/08/06/gabby-douglas-responds-to-hair-comments-i-just-made-history-and-people-are-focused-on-my-hair/
LONDON (AP) — Women’s gymnastics all-around champion Gabby Douglas likes her hairstyle just fine, thanks.
The 16-year-old said Sunday she was a little confused when she logged onto her computer after winning her second gold medal in three days and discovered people were debating her pulled-back look.
“I don’t know where this is coming from. What’s wrong with my hair?” said Douglas, the first U.S. gymnast to win gold in team and all-around competition. “I’m like, ‘I just made history and people are focused on my hair?’ It can be bald or short, it doesn’t matter about (my) hair.”
Douglas uses gel, clips and a ponytail holder to keep things in place while she competes, a style she’s worn for years.
“Nothing is going to change,” she said. “I’m going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well just stop talking about it.”
The bubbly teenager is the first African-American gymnast to win her sport’s biggest prize. She had no idea she was lighting up social media until she Googled herself hours after winning her gold medal.
“I don’t think people should be worried about that,” she said. “We’re all champions and we’re all winners. I just say that it’s kind of, a stupid and crazy thought to think about my hair.”
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
Zoe doesn't 'need' me to speak for her btw. Pretty sure she could bend arms on her own but more importantly, she seems to have addressed the issue HERSELF...
Olympic weightlifter Zoe Smith speaks for us all when she tells sexist trolls we don’t care if you don’t find us attractive
Olympic weightlifter Zoe Smith speaks for us all when she tells sexist trolls we don’t care if you don’t find us attractive
She can lift twice her body weight. She really doesn't give a fuck. (Photo via the BBC.)
As Hannah pointed out earlier, we don’t lift weights in order to look hot, especially for the likes of men like that. What makes them think that we even WANT them to find us attractive? If you do, thanks very much, we’re flattered. But if you don’t, why do you really need to voice this opinion in the first place, and what makes you think we actually give a toss that you, personally, do not find us attractive? What do you want us to do? Shall we stop weightlifting, amend our diet in order to completely get rid of our ‘manly’ muscles, and become housewives in the sheer hope that one day you will look more favourably upon us and we might actually have a shot with you?! Cause you are clearly the kindest, most attractive type of man to grace the earth with your presence.Oh but wait, you aren’t. This may be shocking to you, but we actually would rather be attractive to people who aren’t closed-minded and ignorant. Crazy, eh?! We, as any women with an ounce of self-confidence would, prefer our men to be confident enough in themselves to not feel emasculated by the fact that we aren’t weak and feeble.
Yes. It will never cease to amaze me that some men truly think that every woman in the public eye–whether it be politicians or Olympic athletes–should exist solely to be attractive to them. But what’s even more astounding is the fact that they really seem to believe that women actuallycare if random trolls on the internet want to bone them. As we well know around these parts, while the internet can be an ugly place for both women and men, women often face very gendered abuse. And the “I wouldn’t fuck you” insult is perhaps the most obvious example. It’s basically impossible to imagine a dude receiving the same type of comment.
Smith went on to break the British clean and jerk record in the women’s 58kg event by lifting twice her body weight. She hopes that if her words didn’t silence her critics, maybe her performance will. “It’s two fingers up to them, basically,” she said. “‘What are you doing with your life? I’ve just competed at the Olympics!’” Word.
*Not a word. Combination of hilarious and sad and I don't mean I find it 'funny in a humorous way either'. It is laughable. Your opinion is a joke. I usually try to refrain from such idioms but in this case it is warranted to in my opinion. I'm laughing at you. Not with you.
*Not a word. Combination of hilarious and sad and I don't mean I find it 'funny in a humorous way either'. It is laughable. Your opinion is a joke. I usually try to refrain from such idioms but in this case it is warranted to in my opinion. I'm laughing at you. Not with you.
