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re: Racism Accusations at the MS High School Powerlfting Championship

Posted on 4/20/22 at 11:54 am to
Posted by Bard
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Posted on 4/20/22 at 11:54 am to
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Campbell says she believes the rule unfairly singles out African Americans. “The clips, the beads, that’s in our culture,” she says. “When they wrote the rules, they weren’t writing it for White people or other people, they were writing it for my people.”


Translation: it's more important for her to express her blackness than to compete.
Posted by memphis tiger
Memphis, TN
Member since Feb 2006
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Posted on 4/20/22 at 12:40 pm to
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Translation: it's more important for her to express her blackness than to compete


Well to be fair none of those things help her lift more weight so why do the judges care.

It doesn’t necessarily mean it’s racist but she still has a point.
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