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Black girl at centre of Irish gymnastics race row ‘badly let down’, says ministry [video]
(www.theguardian.com)
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Video is damning. Feel so bad for this kid. :(
Then they wouldnt wait a year to apologize and only do it after the video went viral. If it happened to me I would apologize SO much instantly
It wasn't an issue until the brainless Internet hate mob made it one.
Then why, in an initial statement, did the gymnastics federation claim it was not racism but an issue between the judge and the family directly. That doesn't indicate it was an honest mistake. Also, if it was an honest mistake, she would have gone back a few min later to give her the medal and apologize. The kid only got her medal x days later.
It may not be your intent, but this is how racism is accepted and flourishes: by not acknowledging it or hand-waving it away. And no, "it can't be racism because then it would be blatant and obvious racism" is not an acceptable argument.
You keep referring to details not in the articles, or reasons that the judge might have had, rather than what's 100% obvious and in our faces. Watch the video. The judge had chances during and after to correct her "mistake", but no. The medals weren't too tangled to be given to the the girl before and they seemed to be untangled for the girl after. The end result was a line of young gymnasts, and the little black girl is the only one standing there not wearing a medal.
And to be clear, others share the blame for not questioning or intervening at the time. That's why this is an issue of systemic racism, rather than just one incident...
I love it when racists out themselves while thinking that they are coming across as intellectual.
We already know what happens. Just because you refuse to accept it and keep apologizing for blatant racism on display does not change the facts.
"BuT i'M jUsT aSkInG qUeStIoNs" 🤡
You know how racism flourishes? By everybody shutting their brain off and joining a hate mob.
What is 100% obvious about this? You can clearly see her engaging with the kid, fumbling with the medals, get slightly distracted by something and skipping her. Then the kids look a little confused. Woman hands out more medals until she runs out of metals and has to pick up some more. Meanwhile a photographer jumps in who doesn't seem to have noticed the mistake either. She returns with more medals and starts handing them out, right to left this time. The video ends before she even finished handing out medals. So for all I know she might have handed her one a few seconds later, it's simply not in the video (Edit: slightly more complete video).
If I'd be a racist I'd say some nasty words to the kid to get a reaction out of her, not just let her stand around looking mildly confused of what's going on.
Chapter "To Err Is Human" (page 105) in The Design of EverydayThings is worth a read on the topic of mind slips. And Points of view is worth a watch on the topic of "how much can I tell from a couple of seconds video".
The way she starts beaming even more the clearer the situation becomes just kills me.
By contrast, I like how the child to her immediate right seems to be wondering why she wasn't given a medal, and looks around as if she's hoping to summon someone's attention to address the problem. She looks too young to twig the reason for the omission, but she sure seems to get that this is not how things should go down.