Lerch wrote:
bitchless wrote:
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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.
"She sounded Black"
Are you stupid or just racist? I coach at a majority black, low income school and off the top of my head I don't remember hearing anyone talking like that ever. It doesn't matter what color you are, I don't know any parent that allows their child to act that way, that wants their child to be successful, This kind of behavior is harmful for the black community and to our children.
"straight from the hood"
Keep pushing ridiculous stereotypes, which side are you on? You sound like an ignorant racist!
Your criticism has been adequately addressed above in previous posts. I have no problem with her words (also quoted above); you seem to. I stand by the claim that her twang sounded black, and 9+ out of 10 people on the street will agree it’s a black girl from a low-income neighborhood talking if you play an audio clip of her interview.
Someone who talks like her is a gutsy black girl who probably grew up in a tough neighborhood. Converse is not true or claimed, i.e., a black girl growing up in a tough neighborhood won’t necessarily sound like that. Simple logic.
The hood just means neighborhood, often a tough, low-income, or inner city type environment, nothing racist about that term to my knowledge.