Sha’Carri has a personality, get used to it

self absorbed wrote:

Track life wrote:

How should an athlete show their individuality? Can they not be expressive in their own way? It seems like a women expressing her self with her style and her attitude is a threat to most of LRs posters.

A threat? Not even close to the truth.

I find her embarrassing to the sport. I guess I have hopes that the great athletes will also be great people, with class and intelligence. Listening to he flap her lips with the big blond wig and huge fake nails and eyelashes etc. is like a clown. Then add the tatoos and there you go, no respect for that person, don't care how fast she runs.

I have always respected "act like you've been there before" Barry Sanders, the guy was a great athlete and a class act. He should be the role model.

So basically she needs to walk 3 steps behind you and don't speak unless spoken to. I mean we can't let her get out of line or anything...

The most embarrassing part..... You don't even think what you are saying is wrong. You actually just attacked her individuality as if she does not deserve to have one. I'll pray for you...

self absorbed wrote:

Track life wrote:

How should an athlete show their individuality? Can they not be expressive in their own way? It seems like a women expressing her self with her style and her attitude is a threat to most of LRs posters.

A threat? Not even close to the truth.

I find her embarrassing to the sport. I guess I have hopes that the great athletes will also be great people, with class and intelligence. Listening to he flap her lips with the big blond wig and huge fake nails and eyelashes etc. is like a clown. Then add the tatoos and there you go, no respect for that person, don't care how fast she runs.

I have always respected "act like you've been there before" Barry Sanders, the guy was a great athlete and a class act. He should be the role model.

I suggest you read the actual transcript of her words posted earlier in this thread as well as on LR. There’s nothing unclassy or unintelligent about it. I don’t expect athletes to be very intelligent. I want to be amazed by the magic in their performance.

I suspect you have no problem with Sydney M’s equally gaudy nails or makeup eyelashes. No problem with Lamont Jacobs and many other athletes’ tattoos. And the Jamaican powerhouse lady sprinters’ peacock shrill hair styles.

If you “don’t care how fast she runs”, why does a young black lez girl expressing herself like many others do make you lose all respect for her? Maybe she and her girlfriend like it. I can at least begin to understand (but not really) if in your respect system, the athlete gets to peacock up in makeup only if they also perform like a champ, but you sound like you lose respect for that makeup just in SCR, not others, irrespective of her performance.

Well said!

if she weren't a lesbian, she'd already have 2+ kids by now

I worry about her and like anyone else, she will run more consistently when she is happy.

Her mother died, her old coach had a poor reputation, and her girlfriend admitting beating her up. She just seems like someone who has been through a lot.

Her great times at LSU reflected good coaching and and a good set-up. 10.75 as a freshman is great and she has run only marginally faster since then.

One other thing. It is great to be a sprinter. There is no way you can add nails, crazy uniforms and long eyelashes running a sweaty 10k.

She’s boring af. How about we talk about a real athlete instead?

Implants. You forgot about the implants.

I think a lot of people just don't like braggers (Trump, for example) and we don't like people who use vulgar language in public and around strangers (Trump, for example). So no, I don't like Sha'Carri Richardson's personality. But it isn't about race or gender. I don't like anyone who talks/acts like that, regardless of their "identity."

p.s. having had a hard life is no excuse for being vulgar and rude and arrogant. Millions of people who have had hard lives are not vulgar, rude, or arrogant; you can be a good person despite having had setbacks in life.

p.s. If she has a mental illness, then that is an legit excuse for her behavior. But, like all illnesses, she needs treatment. We shouldn't embrace or elevate illnesses to a form of social status. Illnesses are bad and we are looking for cures, not glorifying them.

Is she still actually competitive?

Sha'Fonki!

All I see is people expecting her to change to fit in with their own culture, not hers.

She needs to grow up. But yes, classism is at play here. It's the same as ageism and racism.

The repeated use of the word "famous" rubs me the wrong way. Who wants to be famous? That's sort of an tacky desire. Financially better off, yes, but famous? The two "rich" and "famous" do not have to go together.

She's disliked because of how she acts. I haven't seen people here talk about Kipchoge / Bekele / Geb (Africans), SAFP / Bolt (Jamaicans), or Brazier / Lagat (African Americans) the same way

She is disliked because of how she acts, not since she's black

She’s also ghetto af!

Agree

Oof. Just caught this. For the record, the typical Stuy kid comes from a middle-class (in NYC terms) home, at best. (Lot of variance, though, from low income/homeless to rich families.) Several years ago, a survey found that more than half of the students at the test-in specialized high schools qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

My kids, who went to Stuy, attended a grade school that gave everybody free breakfast and lunch (plus a snack after school). Such a high percentage of the kids at the school qualified for the free meals that the school met the criteria to give them to everybody.