Team USA Skater's Tweet Draws Mixed Reactions After Coin Toss Decides Olympic Flagbearer. (race, news)
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I fully expect Jesse to sue and threaten to call for a boycott of the sponsors unless he gets a "donation" to his Rainbut Push slush fund AND a tie breaker vote to be given by Maxine Watters on any further ties...
Okay, again I'll say that him making it a black issue makes him a complete moron. That doesn't justify people saying this is the way black athletes behave which means posters are making it about race.
Gotta love the passive-aggressive sophomoric 'Ummm'.
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Originally Posted by Atalanta
There inlays the problem with black people thinking they are oppressed.
Which the Dems and the schools teach blacks.
A total problem for the blacks in this country.
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Originally Posted by scirocco
You are too kind to a fault.
It was what came before the "No problem I can wait until 2022" that was at issue.
"@TeamUSA dishonorably tossed a coin to decide its 2018 flag bearer. No problem. I can wait until 2022"
When we take into account the true context of the comments, then it becomes patently clear he is another black athlete going for what some do best, act like a petulant ungracious idiot with a burning desire to do a bit of race baiting all while looking like a great big tool.
Who gets to vote on the flag barer anyways? It was a woman I was unfamiliar with, but you would have thought it would have been Shaun White, since he's been the face of the winter Olympics for the past decade, and this is his final year competing.
The heads of the US National sports federations vote on who the flag bearer will be. There are 8, so if there is a tie they flip a coin. The protocol existed LONG before this year.
And selection doesn't always have to do with competition accomplishments. No one knew who figure skater Scott Hamilton was when he carried the flag in 1980 in Lake Placid. He was chosen because he overcame a very serious childhoid illness by becoming a skater. His best years as a competitor were still to come at that point (he finished 5th at those Olympics).
I'm sure Tai Babilonia, who was the first black figure skater to win a World Championship (pairs, 1979) didn't throw a fit about not being chosen.
If you can't discern that the statements I provided are making it an issue of race, and not one idiot, there's nothing I can tell you that will help you understand.
If such statements were made about a gender or blue collar workers or a specific political party, people would be objecting. That you don't get it, isn't my problem.
Adding another person to get an odd number of voters?
There aren't people voting in a coin toss.
lol It's about avoiding the coin toss. With an odd number and everyone voing for the last 2 in the running you don't have a tie and you avoid the coin toss.
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