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Olympics' swim cap ban is racist, sets back swimmers of color
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:25 am
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:25 am
Reville
Photo of cap..
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In response to the ruling by the the International Swimming Federation regarding swimming caps for women of color: This is racism, even in the swimming pool.
African American women are born with a certain texture of hair, and this new invention called the Soul Cap helps with hair care as they swim.
Photo of cap..
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Swimming in the communities of color is already a phobia. I was taught to swim in a segregated swimming pool because my sister and I were not permitted to swim in the city pools. Therefore, if African Americans did not have access to safe swimming environments, many times they would swim in rivers, lakes and creeks. These unsafe conditions caused many young people of color to drown.
This phobia is even present today. My mission is to eradicate this phobia by education and teaching swimming safety and swimming lessons. This ruling by the International Swimming Federation does not help our efforts.
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Herman Kelly is an adjunct instructor in LSU's African and African American Studies Department and pastor at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge.
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Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:26 am to LSUWoodworker
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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
This is such a poorly written article that this moron doesn't even explain what the actual ruling/problem is in the fricking article. This is just straight up bad "journalism".
This post was edited on 7/6/21 at 11:29 am
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:28 am to LSUWoodworker
I has the confused
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:28 am to LSUWoodworker
HONK HONK [ON] off
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:28 am to LSUWoodworker
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African Americans did not have access to safe swimming environments, many times they would swim in rivers, lakes and creeks. These unsafe conditions caused many young people of color to drown.
is every fricking thing racist anymore?
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:29 am to LSUWoodworker
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many times they would swim in rivers, lakes and creeks.
Where 90% of white people learned to swim at that time.
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:29 am to LSUWoodworker
Idiotic thing to ban. If anything, this cap would be a competitive hinderance compared to a standard cap.
ETA: solid marketing ploy by the creators of the product
Driving the news: Soul Cap, the British Black-owned company that made the caps, told BBC that FINA argued the hats do not "fit the natural form of the head" and that to their "best knowledge the athletes competing at the international events never used, neither require to use, caps of such size and configuration."
ETA: solid marketing ploy by the creators of the product
Driving the news: Soul Cap, the British Black-owned company that made the caps, told BBC that FINA argued the hats do not "fit the natural form of the head" and that to their "best knowledge the athletes competing at the international events never used, neither require to use, caps of such size and configuration."
This post was edited on 7/6/21 at 11:32 am
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:31 am to LSUWoodworker
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many times they would swim in rivers, lakes and creeks.
ohh, because country people regardless
of race have never ever swam in a creek, river, or lake. nope, just african americans.
This post was edited on 7/6/21 at 11:32 am
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:33 am to LSUWoodworker
Didn’t read the article but the banning of swim caps for the black athletes with the natural hair is kind of bizarre. It’s not like it aids them in any kind of way.
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:35 am to LSUWoodworker
I don't think it is racist and I think the article totally goes off the rails, but banning a cap that's big enough to hold some people's wild manes of hair seems silly.
That said, how many Olympic swimmers even have this issue?
That said, how many Olympic swimmers even have this issue?
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:36 am to LSUWoodworker
I don’t think swimming caps are the main reason blacks don’t participate in swimming.
This post was edited on 7/6/21 at 11:52 am
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:37 am to LSUWoodworker
Guessing the people that implemented this ban didn't take the time to understand the need for these caps for black swimmers. Doubt it was done with intentional racist malice, but more just from ignorance. And I don't mean that in the pejorative.
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:38 am to LSUWoodworker
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Soul Cap
works better when used with Soul Glo quote:
African American
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as they swim
I'm not watching the Olympics anyway so frick 'em
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:40 am to LSUWoodworker
So wear a normal cap? I don't know why this is even a thing.
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:51 am to LSUWoodworker
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Therefore, if African Americans did not have access to safe swimming environments, many times they would swim in rivers, lakes and creeks.
It's just the opposite where I live. Black people flock to the public pools and the hillbillies go out to the creeks and ponds.
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:54 am to LSUWoodworker
Took one of his classes when I was at LSU. He isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:54 am to LSUWoodworker
quote:None of my friends had pools growing up. Some people have really goofy beliefs about white people in general.
Therefore, if African Americans did not have access to safe swimming environments, many times they would swim in rivers, lakes and creeks.
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:55 am to LSUWoodworker
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African American women are born with a certain texture of hair,
Black women aren’t born with wigs, weaves or extensions on their head either.
This post was edited on 7/6/21 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:58 am to LSUWoodworker
Posted on 7/6/21 at 11:58 am to LSUWoodworker
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LSU's African and African American Studies Department
I don’t think Africans want to be lumped in with African-Americans
Now they have to wear the exact same swim cap style as every other competitor.
So another case where actual equal treatment is not equal enough or another case where they are admitting they can’t adhere to same standards as everyone else?
Regardless This is his equality focus not that there might be “females” with a bat & balls competing with black females??
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