Black Excellence' UCLA's Nia Dennis stuns in floor routine paying tribute to Black cultue

What's wrong with these people?

Isn't she supposed to be competing for gymnastics excellenc, not b[b]lackexcellence?

So now any judge who doesn't score it a 9.9 or better will be a labeled a racist?

This is why it will be hard to take them seriously even when there is a real racist situation.

I am god damn sick and tired of athletics being used as a platform for social justice ideologues and their agendas.
Where have you gone, Henry Aaron, the nation turns its lonely eyes to you?

Black Excellence': UCLA's Nia Dennis stuns in floor routine paying tribute to Black culture

Cassandra Negley

Sun, January 24, 2021, 2:55 PM
The UCLA gymnastics team has done it again.

The Bruins not only opened their season in standard victorious fashion, they also are gaining national attention for one athlete’s magnificent floor routine.

Nia Dennis broke into headlines last season for her Beyonce floor routine and upped the ante in 2021 with a routine dedicated to Black culture.

The UCLA Gymnastics Twitter account sent it out with “This is what #blackexcellence looks like.”

And it really is.

Dennis, a senior, opened the performance with Kendrick Lamar’s “DNA.” The song examines Blackness and how it’s viewed by different groups of people. There’s also music by Beyonce, Missy Elliott, Soulja Boy, Megan Thee Stallion and Tupac Shakur’s “California Love.”

She also stepped as a tribute to her father, who was involved in Greek Life. The entire routine was about who Dennis is today, she told the Los Angeles Daily News.

“This routine definitely reflects everything that I am today as a woman,” Dennis said, “and of course I had to incorporate a lot of parts of my culture. I wanted to have a dance party because that’s my personality and of course I had to shout out LA because we out here, UCLA.”

Dennis, ranked 18th in the nation on floor at the end of 2020, first “broke the internet” last gymnastics season with her floor routine to Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love.”