Black girl at centre of Irish gymnastics race row ‘badly let down’, says ministry [video]
Black girl at centre of Irish gymnastics race row ‘badly let down’, says ministry [video]
Statement comes as it emerges that head of Ireland’s sporting authority told family girl’s treatment was not racist
Video of the event in March 2022 shows a judge handing out medals for participation to a line of young gymnasts, but ignoring the only black girl. A photographer, coach and other officials fail to intervene. A mediation settlement reached with the family involved the judge taking anti-racism training.
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Video is damning. Feel so bad for this kid. :(
Even the most racist people I've encountered in my life wouldn't do something so brazen as this in front of cameras, to a child, in a context like this.
The video is hardly "damning", she clearly focuses on the medals and tries to untangle them as she claimed.
It's much more likely she's one of the many people who gets flustered occasionally, not the she was trying to be mean to the kid.
Then they wouldnt wait a year to apologize and only do it after the video went viral. If it happened to me I would apologize SO much instantly
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Then why, in an initial statement, did the gymnastics federation claim it was not racism but an issue between the judge and the family directly. That doesn't indicate it was an honest mistake. Also, if it was an honest mistake, she would have gone back a few min later to give her the medal and apologize. The kid only got her medal x days later.
Then why, in an initial statement, did the gymnastics federation claim it was not racism but an issue between the judge and the family directly.
Because they did not consider being flustered and confused to be an act of racism.
The kid only got her medal x days later.
If that's true, then maybe something else was going on.
However I don't see that in the article anywhere.
It may not be your intent, but this is how racism is accepted and flourishes: by not acknowledging it or hand-waving it away. And no, "it can't be racism because then it would be blatant and obvious racism" is not an acceptable argument.
You keep referring to details not in the articles, or reasons that the judge might have had, rather than what's 100% obvious and in our faces. Watch the video. The judge had chances during and after to correct her "mistake", but no. The medals weren't too tangled to be given to the the girl before and they seemed to be untangled for the girl after. The end result was a line of young gymnasts, and the little black girl is the only one standing there not wearing a medal.
And to be clear, others share the blame for not questioning or intervening at the time. That's why this is an issue of systemic racism, rather than just one incident...
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I love it when racists out themselves while thinking that they are coming across as intellectual.
Wanting to know what happens after a 40 second video is not racism.
Throwing this word around when someone is trying to understand what actually happened dilutes the term.
The fact that you don't care, and are jumping to conclusions based on an article that leaves out key details and can't give a full minute of video is the problem.
We already know what happens. Just because you refuse to accept it and keep apologizing for blatant racism on display does not change the facts.
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We already know what happens
No, you don't. You're making assumptions, the article and video both leave out what happened immediately after that 40 second video.
If she actually was being racist, how would having the context help her? Can you think of any way at all it would? I'm sure you can't name a single way it would. If anything, it would implicate a guilty person more.
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Yes, people should ask questions. This isn't some gotcha. If the only way to depict her as a racist is by silencing questions, then she's probably not a racist.
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The way she starts beaming even more the clearer the situation becomes just kills me.
By contrast, I like how the child to her immediate right seems to be wondering why she wasn't given a medal, and looks around as if she's hoping to summon someone's attention to address the problem. She looks too young to twig the reason for the omission, but she sure seems to get that this is not how things should go down.