Black? I'd love to see her genealogy and family tree on that one. What is she - Quarter? Eighth? Sixteenth? Maybe thirty-second? She sure as heck wouldn't qualify as black via the old-school brown paper bag test.
The simplest test is to stick her with a group of black girls and see if they treat her like one of their own or get all tense and start throwing looks at her.
Homer Plessy, the guy at issue in Plessy v. Ferguson looks blacker than her lol. And they had Plessy get on the tram car for a test case because he didn't look black.
Did she manage to convince people she is black? I know is probably the light on her face but I'm darker then her. Does she have to submit some proof of her blackness?
If not, then I can definitely pass as black, she does not even have any racial traits. Even her hair, looks European style curly not black girl hair, my aunt has hair like that and so does my green eyed, blond haired daughter.
If that's their standard for black she's probably not even the 10th U.S. black skeleton Olympian, she's just the first to openly try using her great great grandparents to get preferable treatment over other more talented athletes.
Yep Olympics stopped being national crew based decades ago. It's original purpose was lost as well.
It was meant to be used as effectively a pissing pot for war. You would send a contingency of your soldiers to compete as gladiators and it would demonstrate your armies abilities and strength. Effectively holding up a big sign "Fuck around and see.".
Then they slowly started training specialist units just for Olympics, then like other sports poaching people.
But because there is a crisis where the state have too many skeletons in their closets the IOC offered to help by classifying skeletons as a type of ice skate, letting them legally dispose of a bunch of them as used Olympic equipment as a loophole. The IOC then went right back to servicing Xi's Sho Wang.
Interesting. You can see it in some of the pictures, but she's pretty damn white looking.
Genetics are weird. A guy I knew in college had a Muslim name. I always thought he was Arab or South Asian. One day somebody said something about him being black, and I laughed--thought it was a joke. Nobody else thought he was black either. Saw his parents on graduation day--dad was very dark African and mom was very white America. Never would have guessed this dude was 50/50.
Black? I'd love to see her genealogy and family tree on that one. What is she - Quarter? Eighth? Sixteenth? Maybe thirty-second? She sure as heck wouldn't qualify as black via the old-school brown paper bag test.
one drop rule?
The simplest test is to stick her with a group of black girls and see if they treat her like one of their own or get all tense and start throwing looks at her.
Oh, she definitely fails that one. Even a light skinned, skinny black girl fails that one.
1/1024th
She's a Warren sister.
One drop rule or did she not douche before her run?
lmao
"black"
"When everyone's black, no one will be."
Elizabeth Warren looks at this one with pride.
Homer Plessy, the guy at issue in Plessy v. Ferguson looks blacker than her lol. And they had Plessy get on the tram car for a test case because he didn't look black.
He doesn't look black at all, but it's harder to tell in an old b/w photograph.
Very impressive. Much melanin.
As if racism is the reason there aren't as many black people in winter sports. (Isn't this cultural appropriation anyway?)
Vonetta Flowers won a gold medal for bobsled in Salt Lake City twenty years ago. Way blacker.
is that because the nike store was open after hours? i keedde
Did she manage to convince people she is black? I know is probably the light on her face but I'm darker then her. Does she have to submit some proof of her blackness? If not, then I can definitely pass as black, she does not even have any racial traits. Even her hair, looks European style curly not black girl hair, my aunt has hair like that and so does my green eyed, blond haired daughter.
Related to 1/4 black?
And wtf is skeleton skating?!
Professional icey slip-n-sliding
It's bobsled, face first.
*Luge, but you’re close!
Same track as le bob, though!
If that's their standard for black she's probably not even the 10th U.S. black skeleton Olympian, she's just the first to openly try using her great great grandparents to get preferable treatment over other more talented athletes.
According to Science!, we're all African at some point.
I bet she used to teach at Eastern Washington University
Doesn't really matter. She's either an American, or she is not. That's how the Olympics work.
Is it ? My girlfriend was watching Figure skating, and this guy was skating for Israel, but lived and trained in the US and was born in Ukraine.
I asked : "What does Israel have to do with it ?"
The Olympics seem to work with mercanaries. Half the Chinese women's hockey team isn't even Chinese.
Yep Olympics stopped being national crew based decades ago. It's original purpose was lost as well.
It was meant to be used as effectively a pissing pot for war. You would send a contingency of your soldiers to compete as gladiators and it would demonstrate your armies abilities and strength. Effectively holding up a big sign "Fuck around and see.".
Then they slowly started training specialist units just for Olympics, then like other sports poaching people.
banned
Quality control failing...
Hold on, back up. What's this about a skeleton?
Fun fact, skeletons are illegal in China.
But because there is a crisis where the state have too many skeletons in their closets the IOC offered to help by classifying skeletons as a type of ice skate, letting them legally dispose of a bunch of them as used Olympic equipment as a loophole. The IOC then went right back to servicing Xi's Sho Wang.
https://www.tvguidetime.com/sports/who-is-kelly-curtis-father-john-curtis-what-team-did-he-play-in-the-nfl-curiosity-around-her-parents-and-family-continues-224708.html
Interesting. You can see it in some of the pictures, but she's pretty damn white looking.
Genetics are weird. A guy I knew in college had a Muslim name. I always thought he was Arab or South Asian. One day somebody said something about him being black, and I laughed--thought it was a joke. Nobody else thought he was black either. Saw his parents on graduation day--dad was very dark African and mom was very white America. Never would have guessed this dude was 50/50.
She could have remarried, and he got a Somalian stepdad
I mean… If she’s “black”, then we really, really need to reclassify what “black” means…
Even in those photos, she just looks like ugly tanned white chick…
Most people living around the Mediterranean are darker than her…
It’s super, super dubious, for her to claim “first black skeleton rider” status, “mixed” or not…
Like Halsey. Halsey is not actually black. And nor is this chick. 🤷🏻♂️
FIRST BLACK OLYMPIAN
She approves: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Rachel_Dolezal_speaking_at_Spokane_rally_May_2015.jpg
She's white but has a black skeleton...
Ironically, this may actually be true. However, she's probably just not very black.