First, the vast majority of our responses out here on social media is influenced by being exposed to a white insecurist system, generation after generation.
There is no reason on God’s green earth why we are spewing whore like analysis of this young woman’s behavior. We are overreacting like a motherf*cker to this girl’s decisions as if she incurred a lifetime ban.
One. We…have all…been 21…without social media. Most of us are probably thanking our personal God’s that that is so. To excoriate this young lady in a public display of personal weakness is some b!tch sh!t
Two. Nobody on here can run as fast as her. Are we jealous? Are we envious? Are we projecting?
Three. This is a grown woman that we are treating like a child. Yes, she grew up in a non nuclear home. Yes she loves multiple hair colors and talons for nails, but how does that make her less of a woman? How does that mean since we are still stupid enough to fall for “respectability politics” we should impose that onto her generation.
Millenials and Gen Z look at Baby Boomers and the first two thirds of Gen X with a side eye. They can’t understand that if, and since, we know so much why we still tap dancing in front of society like we just stepped out of Jim Crow.
This muthaf*cka did not live with her birth mother, found out she died from a f*cking stranger and then needed to go out and literally run for her dream and from her nightmare, at the same damn time. Pressure got to her. 21, now, and she toked.
Admitted it. Held herself accountable. We still ain’t satisfied. Are you f*cking kidding me?
This board should be way better than that. I been here over 2 decades and many of you all’s attitudes towards women ain’t improved or gotten worse in that time frame.
Sh!t is disgusting.
Honestly I'm a little disappointed. people go a whole year without smoking for a jobs that pay $20 an hour. sprinters have the most sophisticated tests she shouldn't even be thinking about getting high or be around people that smoke.
I am disappointed that we have people who don’t smoke for a year just to make $20 an hour.
We should have more respect for the gifts and talents we have to not do this.
Straight giving their power away.
At least she smoked working in our gift.
It Kills me when mediocre motherfuckers question the discipline of GREATNESS. None of ya'll have the ability or discipline to be Olympic level anything but you want to question her drive and dedication GTFOH. I really hate all of you that would dare talk bad about this young black American woman who was on the verge of history.
Weed is not a performance enhancing substance. The fact that it can cause you to get banned shows the BS the Olympic committee is on. Do you ever notice they only test for weed for jobs that are low skilled. They don't test lawyers for weed engineers can toke all day, computer programmers, AOC administrators all can smoke all the weed they want but if you work at McDonalds lol you need to be sober as fuck lol. It ain't about the drugs it ain't about health it's about power. People in power want to control your bodies down to what you ingest that doesn't have shit to do with your job or your abilities. And the more power you have in the work context the less they can fuck with you. Athletes they still treat like fucking slaves.
Weed can be argued as a performance enhancing drug, however, I am lock stock and barrel on everything else you said.
I am embarrassed to be a Black man behind this sh!t right now.
It does if it's calming her nerves or relieving pain that other athletes have to deal with
I came to disagree, but got damn it, I let my emotions go and you are right.
Fuck! Gotta hear Steven A. Smiths shit about weed in the morning. Lol
Yep. She, has to hold this L and deal with the fall out. It should be a learning lesson for all young black up and coming athletes.
Some folks out the hood you just don’t let them “be themselves” without some type of guidance. As black folks we have learned to code switch. This young lady was clearly never taught the game.
Bruh, I am with you.
Let’s evolve the conversation though. When does a generation that looks like us get to Ronnie born, or a current living generation decide, that we aregoing to raise our legacies to be fully authentic?
Code switching is so normalized in our behavior we don’t even view it as trauma.
That…shit…is trauma. At home, I am one way.
Then, depending on what church I attended, school I went to or work environment I am in, I gotta be somebody else…for the rest of my LIFE?
When does it end? I made three bows to myself as a kid: I am not physically hitting my kids, I am not forcing Jesus down their throats and they growing up all Black for the first seven years of schooling so they can ALWAYS feel comfortable being their f*cking selves.
Personally, this woman should not change sh!t! No more respect will come with it. It will just make Black people feel better about themselves not being themselves in mixed company. Sh!t is more trouble than it’s worth. I struggle with it every f*cking day.
What’s your thoughts, Man? You have touched on a real reality in our community