So Elijah Manangoi thinks only black people can be African?

All according to plan.

White only in the US of A.

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1027380439420420101

He's only 14, give the poor guy a pass.

spade detector wrote:

zxcvzxcv wrote:

I see nothing whatsoever that is nefarious in that interview. Manangoi is speaking in his second language and his English is a little shaky, not nearly as shaky as my other languages, mind you, but shaky enough to be not all that precise. As far as I can tell, he really does not mean anything other than that he is proud to be African and African champion, as well as proud of being Kenyan, as he says, and he is not seeking to exclude anyone of anything, not even to exclude the 1500m title from his training partner, though he ended up taking the victory.

Agreed. The logical leaps that you have to take to construe this as him saying "only black people can be African" are impressive. But, this is Letsrun.

Double agreed. Even just perusing the first post it was obvious to me that he meant he was glad to be able to show his true stripes(color)…probably connections to flag based idiomatic expressions from both languages….just normal pride.

Source, I am a polyglot with ESL training.

zxcvzxcv wrote:

I see nothing whatsoever that is nefarious in that interview. Manangoi is speaking in his second language and his English is a little shaky, not nearly as shaky as my other languages, mind you, but shaky enough to be not all that precise. As far as I can tell, he really does not mean anything other than that he is proud to be African and African champion, as well as proud of being Kenyan, as he says, and he is not seeking to exclude anyone of anything, not even to exclude the 1500m title from his training partner, though he ended up taking the victory.

100%!

What some crude ideology, pure hate and incapability for logic thinking can produce is to see in the first few posts of this thread.

I'm German, so I'm European.

What? You stupid f&c$g a.. , Europe is not only Germany.

To say it's getting ridiculous here in letsrun would be some sort of understatement.

Also Nigeria got a lot flack for the bad organisation and facilities (crooked, bumpy track) from athletes and African media, so Manangoi was assuring them of his support by saying that it’s home for him too.

Good answer to a fluff interview question. The question was (paraphrased) "You're already a world champion and Commonwealth champion, how much would it mean to be an African champion?" Worlds is obviously harder to win than the latter two, but you can't just say that, you have to come up with something interesting.

Just another tan guy wrote:

did you just say hyperbole? wrote:

So he's not allowed to be proud of being African and black?

Just think if someone said how proud they were to be white after winning a race. Let that sink in. It's very much a double standard. For context, I'm a naturalized American born in Bolivia.

This is LetsRun, where if you post about the third Kenyan to be busted in 10 days, you get banned for racism. Meanwhile, genocide is taking place in Africa now against white Africans, many of them with ancestors there before the British Empire even existed. A Kenyan here calls Nigerians imbeciles, publicly states that Kiprop's bust is the result of a white conspiracy, and uses anti-white genocide inciting hashtags on Twitter.

Morons like Spade Defecator and zxczcgsh defend a Kenyan excluding non blacks (including Arabs) as Africans yet I'm a neo-nazi for being concerned about the manifest Kenyan doping crisis that's killing this sport??

And to the t'ard who called for me to be banned - who cares? If the Brojos want this site to be known as an apologist hub for Kenyan doping, as well as Black Panther style racism, so be it. And if I'm banned I guarantee it will be.

El Keniano wrote:

vivalarepublica wrote:

Quote for context please?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=Yxonn_iPo2A

I watched the interview a couple times and I have no idea what he is referring to. It's an absolute stretch to assume what the OP is assuming.

Coevett wrote:

This is LetsRun, where if you post about the third Kenyan to be busted in 10 days, you get banned for racism.

Didn't happen - why are you incapable of telling the truth?

Where can I find these tweets, so I can report this hate crime?

You're lying again. I've never called you a racist for pointing out the doping problem in Kenya. I agree there is a problem. I've called you a racist because you have posted racist things. No idea whether you are a neo-nazi and I've never labeled you as such.

It seems most posts you make contain lies - you have no credibility because of this. How can a discussion be had if you have no intellectual integrity?

And the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction goes to................ Coevett!!!!!!!!

What a moron.

Lol.

Whose tweets is he talking about?

Africans are just as likely to be racists than anyone else. No surprise really

El Keniano wrote:

aaaaaaaaa wrote:

Where can I find these tweets, so I can report this hate crime?

Whose tweets is he talking about?

Must be the voices in his head.

Lots of cool names on this site (others, not so much). Most I can kind of figure out, but this one "Spade Detector, " I dont know.

The racist vermin strikes again. I will not be surprised if it's coevett that started this thread. He probably has 20 handles here. Always makes things up as they come.....

El Keniano wrote:

Also Nigeria got a lot flack for the bad organisation and facilities (crooked, bumpy track) from athletes and African media, so Manangoi was assuring them of his support by saying that it’s home for him too.

yeah im pretty sure you were one of them talking lots of negative sh*t about it as well. so its ok to talk sh*t about fellow african countries if you are el k, but if anyone else is doing it they are bigots, racists and evil!! lolz