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Simone Biles should be praised, not punished for achieving a feat that was deemed impossiblehttps://www.salon.com/2021/05/26/simone-biles-yurchenko-double-pike-gymnastics-scoring/?fbclid=IwAR3KZR6otx-cFxPc3qdogUTi3FvYRQdPXWA4lBKh0s1ti5agLfdEl9G8E_I

bookworm'sbookworm·Jun 12, 2021
Posted in:In The News
"In other words, on a technical and cultural level, Biles, a young Black woman, is being punished and subjected to undeniably racist and sexist double standards for her greatness. After all, we've seen some form of this before, for other Black women athletes — Caster Semenya, a South African two-time Olympic champion runner, was literally barred from competing in women's sports last year unless she agreed to take medication to lower her naturally higher levels of testosterone. When Black women athletes work hard and go above and beyond, they're treated with suspicion, as if they're somehow being dishonest, or as if their success is a detriment to others that should be punished, restricted and prevented rather than encouraged. From Semenya to Biles, they and other Black women athletes face the same, intertwined racism and misogyny."
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