Dwight Phillips vs. Lauren Fleshman and Nick Symmonds on Twitter

USATF has way too much IAAF and NIKE in it to be considered a competent and effective organization and it has been that way for decades prior to Max Siegel; he is bought and paid for as much as it gets, but at least he has not pulled a Doug Logan and publicly endorsed doping.

Here is how I feel, not hiding it: I have black friends who are incredibly cool and I guarantee they would agree 100% with what I said. If people like Phillips want to represent a skin color (which I think is downright stupid, but that is the position he has put up), then they need to do so with some sense of perspective other than thin-skinned victimhood.As far as "leaving this earth" I'm afraid your common sense did so years ago, sugar pie.

tax season wrote:

50 Shades Of Gray Area wrote:

He is making black skin look like incredibly thin skin.

You can't hide how you feel in what you said. Please leave it off the internet or leave this earth.

In 2016 this still has nothing to do with skin-shade-defined-racism. Even when Doug (a Hispanic) was CEO, the corruption in USATF was mastered by Nike, a Red Chinese company.

Jut saw your same post on another thread, so tip of the troll-cap to ya mate!

50 Shades Of Gray Area wrote:

tax season wrote:

You can't hide how you feel in what you said. Please leave it off the internet or leave this earth.

In a few words: Dwight pulled the race card from nowhere. Zero brains.

dotdot wrote:

In a few words: Dwight pulled the race card from nowhere. Zero brains.

That's the "divide-and-conquer' strategy all over again. China is trying to

divide the US track community along ancient European mythological "race" lines. Don't fall for that cheap Chinese crap from Nike Beaverton puppets!

Know your niche wrote:

This is ridiculous. Why should Oiselle or Pickybars be serving a "diverse" market? You don't think they can sell Pickybars to people who eat at McD's and KFC do you? The Oiselle crowd isn't loud 300 pound black women wearing gold Gucci necklaces, it's white women with refined tastes.

White woman with refined tastes? Skinny white woman who just poped out of the yoga class on their way to a group run wanting a quick snack ,buy and chew on one those foul tasting bars, thinks it's good for them because the label says natural and energy but as she's driving to the run texting back to Laurens mommy blog,thinking I better pop a run gum so my energy level is back up for the run is the exact demographic were talking here.

Dwight Philips is a little self absorbed in his role ,he clearly does understand his role as a representative for the athletes. He's out of touch with the role he serves and the athletes needs within it. He should resign and let's someone represent who has the time and desire to fully represent all athletes.

50 Shades Of Gray Area wrote:

Here is how I feel, not hiding it: I have black friends who are incredibly cool and I guarantee they would agree 100% with what I said. If people like Phillips want to represent a skin color (which I think is downright stupid, but that is the position he has put up), then they need to do so with some sense of perspective other than thin-skinned victimhood.

As far as "leaving this earth" I'm afraid your common sense did so years ago, sugar pie.

tax season wrote:

You can't hide how you feel in what you said. Please leave it off the internet or leave this earth.

Seriously? you seriously pulled out the "I have black friends" card. That's what ever racist tries to say. Pathetic

fje9 wrote:

Are So wrote:

Fleshman is barely a part of this thing. It's mainly Phillips saying Symmonds looks out for his own interests and that Brooks is not a paragon of diversity.

Actually it looks like it started with a reply from Phillips to Fleshman:

‏"@laurenfleshman

Pro track and field athletes, have any of you received any emails from the AAC in 2016? @usatf_AAC"

Then:

@Dwightdagreat

Wow really, I guess black people are incompetent these days Lauren

then:

@laurenfleshman

excuse me Dwight, but that has literally nothing to do with my comment. That's completely inappropriate

then:

@Dwightdagreat

As is your tweet Lauren! No class!

I could be missing something but that looks like how it started to me.

I agree 2Dwightdagreat is the one who assumes a racial slur was made. I see none ( if this is a accurate copy of the exchange) .

I certainly feel @laurenfleshman question has the air of a passive-aggressive

comment but one questioning the level of engagement @Dwoghtdagreat has with the athletes and is without any air of racism.

I feel @Dwightdagreat is deflecting an attack on his ability of communicate effectively by saying she is attacking every Black person on Earth past, present and future.

Seriously? Do you realize how stereotypical your response is? Absolutely devoid of content or value relative to the thread topic. "If you can't contribute, you can at least ad hominem ad infinitum!"

oLD 800M DUDE wrote:

50 Shades Of Gray Area wrote:

Here is how I feel, not hiding it: I have black friends who are incredibly cool and I guarantee they would agree 100% with what I said. If people like Phillips want to represent a skin color (which I think is downright stupid, but that is the position he has put up), then they need to do so with some sense of perspective other than thin-skinned victimhood.

As far as "leaving this earth" I'm afraid your common sense did so years ago, sugar pie.

Seriously? you seriously pulled out the "I have black friends" card. That's what ever racist tries to say. Pathetic

Situations like this are why Donald Trump is so popular.

come on guys wrote:

Unless I'm missing some context, that exchange between Phillips and Fleshman doesn't seem to make any sense. What in the world is he talking about???

Sometimes to see what another man sees, you have to stand where he stands. Not saying I agree with Dwight, but I completely understand where he is coming from.

Can someone explain what "AAC" is?

Lauren sent out the tweet , already knowing what the answer was. Lauren knows who is responsible for communicating. All Phillips did was send out a response tweet that was way over the top, Trump style. both pathetic

They are pissed about Symmond's lawsuit, so now they are playing the race card in a lame effort to influence public opinion. Shows how desperate they are. The case is an open-and-shut affair. Symmond's will prevail and when he does it will benefit track and field athletes regardless of their ethnicity. USATF is running a plantation and doesn't want the sharecroppers to have basic trade rights.

USATF are the house slaves, working for Massa Man Knight on the Nike plantation. They have to make sure the field slaves don't lose the ankle shackles.

USATF are the house slaves, working for Massa Man Knight on the Nike plantation. They have to make sure the field slaves don't lose the ankle shackles.

Not really. Gotta understand that Phil is now a senile old man, with spittle drooling from his mouth as his house nurse feeds him cream of wheat. His brain is long gone. It is the goons who now run the company.

USATF is deflecting wrote:

They are pissed about Symmond's lawsuit, so now they are playing the race card in a lame effort to influence public opinion. Shows how desperate they are. The case is an open-and-shut affair. Symmond's will prevail and when he does it will benefit track and field athletes regardless of their ethnicity. USATF is running a plantation and doesn't want the sharecroppers to have basic trade rights.

If you do work the plantation , make sure you use rungum for the extra energy.

now in 3 exciting flavors.

If you do work the plantation , make sure you use rungum for the extra energy.

now in 3 exciting flavors.

Nice.