Lerch wrote:
investing noob wrote:
She said she had a bad race but she will be back, and congratulated the winners. How is this trashy? Emma Coburn accuses the winner of being drug cheats but everyone here loves her. LoL.
You're talking about the 2nd interview, after she realized she needed to go do damage control.
Most people saw the first one, and it looked real bad. Almost nobody was defending her online after that one. A lot of people I saw defend her previously admitted it looked real bad and said they were not so sure they could support her anymore.
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I did see the first interview. She sounded black. Like unfiltered, straight from the hood, in your face don’t-push-me-around-coz-Imma-tough-bi$%^ black. What she actually said, if you could see past the blackness and poverty in her twang, was roughly “coming out here was great today… i’ve been dealing with stuff… this is just one race… count me out if you want to.. talk all the sh$^ you want to… i’m here to stay… i’m not done… i’m still the sixth fastest ever… congratulations to the winners”.
The words are hardly unlike other athletes showing gutsy bravado. She’s not a role model? Sure, what you mean is you don’t want your daughters sounding like “that” and you know what “that” is. She didn’t cuss (“talk sh$^” is hardly cussing and your hero Centro and most everyone uses it all the time), didn’t call anyone names, didn’t offend any group of people, didn’t offer lame excuses, and did congratulate the winners.
If you still don’t know what “that “ is, let me tell you: you don’t like how a black girl who grew up poor and is a lez princess sounds naturally in her skin. That is fine, you don’t have to like that or want that for girls in your family, but that’s not “trash”, not the words she said at least. As for the new money criticism, come on, she expresses her personality with makeup, nails, and hair none of which cost much money. She’s a very young girl and a princessy lez one at that. As for her talk, that is how she talked before money.
If this same words were said in an upper-middle-classy Stuyvesant-going kid accent, you would be lapping it up. She came back in the second interview and said similar things, just not sounding as black and you all approved coz you want her to conform, why else? FWIW, the second interview was actually the “new money” talking.
PS: She did pot before her Olympics, which was dumb indeed, but that is past, a mistake she apologized for, and does not deserve to be pulled out all over again like new hate ammo every time she underperforms.