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American cycling world champion Chloe Dygert once "liked" a Trump campaign tweet and another saying that "white privilege doesn't exist". Faced with the prospect of losing her sponsors, she "unliked" the tweets and apologized. But she hasn't yet been completely cancelled and kicked off the Olympic team which, according to this professor of Africana studies writing for Bicycling magazine, illustrates her white privilege and the racist whiteness that pervades cycling, sport and everything.
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When George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others were killed by the police in 2020, forcing the nation into a racial reckoning, the cycling industry responded with promises to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem. Fuji announced it was suspending the sale of their bikes to police departments...
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Yet, looking at the actions of some cyclists at the top of the sport, along with their sponsors, I see how the system of privileges and advantages afforded to white people remains strongly rooted both inside and outside the sport of cycling. It’s time for cycling to think beyond white fragility, white privilege, implicit bias, and microaggressions, and begin to think about its root cause.
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In late September, many in the sport turned a blind eye when it came to light that world-champion Chloe Dygert ‘liked’ several racist and transphobic tweets. One tweet said “white privilege doesn’t exist,” while another suggested that if football player Colin Kaepernick “realized that if he grew an afro and played the part of victim, he could scam the Black community out of millions.”
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What Dygert did was not simply a deviation in an otherwise magical career, but rather an expression of the violent normality of anti-Black racism in the world.
This laughable professor of blackness kind of looks like an even whiter afro-less version of Kaepernick.
We need a rational definition and discussion of White Privilege before we can say it does or does not exist. This isn't it. Everyone has a different definition and understanding of the concept. The term was designed and established to trigger people, not enable or foster a reasoned discussion or exploration.
Stick to your guns, Chloe. The woketards will never, ever forgive you for daring to challenge their myopic view of the world, so you might as well not even bother trying.
Our ancestors fought and died to gain our freedoms and rights for us!
Now others are demanding all that which OUR ancestors accomplished. White privilege was earned and I will never, ever apologize for it.
Who did they fight? Native Americans they slaughtered and from whom they stole the land? The Black people they enslaved and robbed their labor from? The civil war fought to keep slavery?
There is nothing to be proud of being a racist which is what white privilege is. You nor your ancestors earn any privilege.
American cycling world champion Chloe Dygert once "liked" a Trump campaign tweet and another saying that "white privilege doesn't exist". Faced with the prospect of losing her sponsors, she "unliked" the tweets and apologized. But she hasn't yet been completely cancelled and kicked off the Olympic team which, according to this professor of Africana studies writing for Bicycling magazine, illustrates her white privilege and the racist whiteness that pervades cycling, sport and everything.
This laughable professor of blackness kind of looks like an even whiter afro-less version of Kaepernick.
Who did they fight? Native Americans they slaughtered and from whom they stole the land? The Black people they enslaved and robbed their labor from? The civil war fought to keep slavery?
There is nothing to be proud of being a racist which is what white privilege is. You nor your ancestors earn any privilege.
You'd be hard pressed to find a nation that doesn't have a troubling background. The Indians engaged in savagery among themselves, slavery was a worldwide, millennia-old practice. As for the latter, the United States fought a war that ended slavery in that nation (many of us learned this in grammar school).
Who did they fight? Native Americans they slaughtered and from whom they stole the land? The Black people they enslaved and robbed their labor from? The civil war fought to keep slavery?
There is nothing to be proud of being a racist which is what white privilege is. You nor your ancestors earn any privilege.
Hundreds of thousands of white folks died fighting to free the slaves. Also consider the fact that slaves were very often sold into slavery by Africans themselves, often prisoners of war from various conflicts.
Hundreds of thousands of white folks died fighting to free the slaves.
Nope they were used as fodder by Lincoln to invade the South so the elites could keep their tax revenue flowing in.
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