harper is married to craig everhart.
alonzo nelson is just a friend of the family.
not being on the talk shows is a blessing, it can easily distract from your training. Example after constantina dita won the olympic marathon in 2008 she went on tons of shows and interviews in her country roumania, and she never ran another good race, dita i am sure wishes she had not done all the shows and instead focused on training.
Lolo = cute, sexy, smart, articulate world champion athlete.
Dawn = bitter crybaby ghetto shebeast with an HGH-swollen jaw.
Lolo = truth.
Dawn = lies.
Harper mentions her boyfriend (at 2:54) as part of her support system in the June 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials post-conference press conference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWT4yn9KlZU
They were friends but are now dating. Kinda surprising he would involve himself in this mess publicly. Too often people forget social media goes out to the world. Bad look.
OK, Dawn Harper had a good agent in 2008. Did all the ground work to get her noticed and in the right races. She makes the team. Then wins Beijing in 2008 because Lolo hit a hurdles and EVERYONE knows that race was hers to lose.
THEN Dawn dumps the agent who was there for her!!?? He gets nothing but the new "better" agent was full of sh!t and she was never marketed like an Olympic champ should be. Proof is, Lolo still makes better PR. Dawn has Bobby Kersee and HSI as her agents but that East St. Louis ghetto can't bring the PR for her. Now she and Kellie "I take skank photos" Wells are bitter. (BTW check out her pics on Google. She is an OK looking girl but the poses make her look like an old 2 Live Crew background hoochie.)
Get this, Lolo and Kellie actually have the same slimy Austrian agent.
Bottom line,
Lolo- good girl, good PR, smart girl
Dawn & Kellie- two medalist who are tarnished like their medals will become.
Doesn't look too angry here. I like her celebrations and her racing style.
http://thegrio.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/dawn-harper-11.jpg%3Fw%3D439
You shouldn't pull Kellie into this, kellie was sort of just there. She didn't really say anything particular about Lolo.
Kellie is a nice girl. does she take bad photos? yes. Is she a bad person instigating sh*t all over the place? No. At a certain point though the more she hangs out with Dawn and Dawn mouths off like the loud she-boon she is, the more it will tarnish Kellie.
Honestly I would like this sh*t to stop, but if you know Dawn, we all know it won't. It started in 2008 and has just got worse since.
I am surprised re the husband/boyfriend thing with Harper. I would have thought she's t-to-b for sure.
This is making sense now.
Harper looks (and acts) like she is from East St Louis.
Kellie deserves this. Dawn offers this up and Kellie laugh along. Check out the video with that NBC girl and it is played up. She endorses it or her silence condones it.
Shawn Darper wrote:
You shouldn't pull Kellie into this, kellie was sort of just there. She didn't really say anything particular about Lolo.
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If you look at Harper's tweets she seems to be playing the victim card. Well if she didn't open her big, fat, disgusting mouth about Lolo Jones then she wouldn't look so bad especially since she's the one with two medals.
bangalangadanga wrote:
East St. Louis
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that's all you need to know.
Pha cough wrote:
She makes the team. Then wins Beijing in 2008 because Lolo hit a hurdles and EVERYONE knows that race was hers to lose.
You know, this post and especially the quoted text really hits the nail on the head. She could have handled this so much better. First of all, she downright got lucky in Beijing. Let's not kid ourselves, Lolo was winning before she tripped. And sure, that's a part of hurdling, but we all know what's up. Harper could have played the graceful champion that everyone doubted, coming back to prove herself for real. This has happened more than once in the world of sports -- Lance Armstrong's first win was questioned in the same kind of way (some of his strongest competitors weren't in the race).
I just can't believe how poorly Harper has managed to handle herself and how little self-awareness she seems to have.
look at the people Dawn surrounds herself with.
There's your answer.
The people both Dawn and Kellie surround themselves coupled with their upbringing spells athletic success but disaster from a PR perspective. They were both brought in an inner city urban area, so from a speech/presentation perspective the public can tell within 10 seconds of listening to them where they grew up. But the real killer is who they spend 6 days a week, 6 hours a day with -- their coaches.
First, look at Dawn Harper and Bobby Kersee: he's one of the greatest hurdler coaches of all-time, nobody doubts that (Gail Devers, JJK, Michelle Perry, Joanna Hayes, Ginnie Crawford, Dawn Harper). But he is also one of the biggest loud mouth jacka$$'s of all time, nobody doubts that either. Fans and coaches alike just roll their eyes and say, 'that's Bobby being Bobby'. He's such an abrasive, confrontational type that folks on the board of the JJK Boys and Girls Club in East St. Louis quit rather than work with him; his involvement was a part of big donors not contributing and in the center losing funding to keep it afloat. And all because of his loud, ghetto attitude and personality. How is Dawn supposed to learn peaceful, gracious, humble living from a coach like that? Not gonna happen.
Second, look at Kellie Wells and Dennis Mitchell: like Kersee, he's trained a stable of high performing athletes on the national and international stage, nobody doubts that. But he is also one of the biggest loud mouth jacka$$'s of all time, nobody doubts that either. You do remember Dennis' antics, in his competition days he served a 2-year IAAF doping ban for testosterone, and his best defense was that he had "five bottles of beer and sex with his wife at least four times...it was her birthday, the lady deserved a treat." How is Kellie supposed to learn peaceful, gracious, humble living from a coach like that? Not gonna happen.
So it's likely these girls will continue to hurdle out of this world, but will struggle in the PR realm with no real mentors to help guide them.
This is what happens when you reach the age of 30 and still refuse to get laid. Her psychosis will only worsen as her unmet womenly needs intensify.
Azia wrote: No matter how many times we try to focus on something else, here it comes again...why can't the women hurdlers and their acquaintances keep their mouth shut and move on. Not a good look for USA track and field. :(
This is just a thought, but maybe if you want to focus on something else, you shouldn't start a thread about it??
Well Harper has two medals and Lolo none. I would probably be pissed as well. Lolo is like the Tim Tebow of track. She is certainly talented but will probably come up short in the long run of ever achieving their ultimate dream. Both Lolo and Tim are good, honest, and hard-working people. They get bashed because they have values the rest of the world doesn't. It also doesn't mean they aren't incredibly selfish and PR hounds. Lolo's interview should have been about happiness for her teammates, not a sob story.
Alonzo is a great guy and he is certainly human. Humans makes mistakes about keeping their mouths tight about issues that are private. He was always a total gentleman and a class act when I knew him and I am sure he is caught up in the Lolo charade as well.
This will all blow over as Lolo is turning 30 soon (or 30 already) and her time has probably passed to continue to be an elite hurdler.
Lolo has values? I think Lolo is a cynical marketer of self, why you might ask? because a lot of her photo shoots contradict her values. Christianity has demands lots of modesty (Read the Bible, fools, Again, read the Bible, losers). She has discovered that in this country, all you have to do is to put God in every other sentence, claim to be a christian, but practice as little as possible of the demands of the faith and people will give you latitude, sympathy and money.
Tebow has values, he lives them and most importantly does not whine every time he is criticized.
Alonzo re-tweeted, he did not not tweet the difference is small but still a significant difference.
Lolo is a desperate aging beauty (in her eyes)and that's the problem
My girlfriend and I just finished a good 5 mile jog, and sat down to read our favorite letsrun message board. Wow, this thread is like a soap opera! We decided to do a little Google hunting to piece together some context, and it's not looking good for the loving couple Dawn and Alonzo. Here's our take:
JJK tries to give Dawn some advice, and Tommy Sotomayor tries to give Dawn's boyfriend some advice. For those of you who don't know, Tommy Sotomayor is kinda like our Jon Stewart of Bill Maher, a little rough but funny as hell and usually on point. When you don't want to listen to people in your own community trying to give you advice, I suppose you gotta ride the wave! This is classic ish:
JACKIE JOYRNER'S ADVICE TO DAWN HARPER:
"Everybody wants sponsorship, everybody wants to be marketed. But not everybody is marketable. Just get the job done. Don't worry about who's getting attention or not getting attention. Get out there, focus on your lane, execute, and what's going to come your way is what's going to come your way."
DAWN HARPER'S RSPONSE TO ADVICE: "Ummm, no thanks, I'd rather act ghetto."
TOMMY SOTOMAYOR'S ADVICE TO DAWN'S BOYFRIEND (ALONZO NELSON):
Tommy Sotomayor (@tjsotomayor)
18 Aug / 1:33pm: way to go classless
Alonzo Nelson (@zoeesl)
18 Aug / 2:13pm: Why would you make such allegations? What truths r u writing frm... Ppl clearly will believe whatever they want to.
Tommy Sotomayor (@tjsotomayor)
18 Aug / 2:26pm: DUDE YOU RETWEETED A MAN CALLING LOLO JONES A HOE, WHY WOULD YOU DO SUCH A THING? SERIOUSLY HOW DOES THAT HELP DAWN?
Alonzo Nelson (@zoeesl)
18 Aug / 2:31pm: Oh! I hear you. Got ya. Funny how one retweet gives one a false perception of another.
Alonzo Nelson (@zoeesl)
18 Aug / 2:36pm: The mind is an interesting machine. It causes you to remember things you want, forget things u do; & at time quote things ppl never said...
Alonzo Nelson (@zoeesl)
18 Aug / 2:37pm: Tack!
Tommy Sotomayor (@tjsotomayor)
18 Aug / 9:29pm: I was just saying u might want to delete the tweet. That's all.
Alonzo Nelson (@zoeesl)
19 Aug / 2:43am: So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God's chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger?
ALONZO NELSON'S RESPONSE TO TOMMY SOTOMAYOR'S ADVICE: "How dare you expect me to mean what I say. It's preposterous that my words and actions have any meaning to them. Foolishness! And oh by the way, let me quote some scripture to let you know you're messing with one of God's chosen (me, of course). And it's because I'm one of God's chosen, I can freely retweet/tweet about people being 'hoes on prozac'. That's God's will! And one more thing. BOOM just like that."
Whew... this Alonzo character is right out of a Spike Lee movie. Reminded my girlfriend and I about alot of the black pastors in our neighborhood, preaching for three hours on Sunday about righteousness, and then secretly screwing two or three women in the church on the side and embezzling half of the building fund, cause he's "one of God's chosen!" Dude can't even admit he made a mistake, apologize, and move one. YWMV oughta do a video just on this guy.
Spot on, Zeke!! Too many blacks want to think that God is on their side. God is not so weak as to have to take a side, it is we who must be on God's side.
That Alonzo must be a delusional fool. The Bible even said Satan quoted scripture..... hmmm.
