Foobar75 said:
Looks like Thrashen's favorite due won their semifinal match against the Chinese team with an improbable comeback victory today, and will now play for their third straight gold. Maybe someone told them about the post here, but afterwards, I didn't see any obnoxious displays of poor sportsmanship. There were hugs and kisses with the Chinese women, and even the always annoying Misty May appeared to have toned down her post-match antics. Their volleyball talent, skills and championship-winning mentality is unquestionable. I can only wish more White men could display similar attitude and edginess, whether in sports or real-life, instead of the aw-shucks displays we see from most ("I'll do whatever the team wants me to do", "I have no idea how a guy like me can make those plays", etc, you know the drill).
Anyways, I looked up Kerri Walsh Jennings, and she seems alright to me. Married, with two sons of her own, always wears her wedding ring during the matches, and afterwards, goes around the stadium, acknowledges and then gives every offical, worker, ball boy/girl a high-five. So, I'm not sure if she's done something I've missed to deserve the scorn she's received here.
Agreed. From what I saw, May-Treanor and Walsh-Jennings weren’t obnoxious whatsoever during that match with China. No berating of the officials, no smugness, no bragging, no ill-mannered post-match antics, and limited fist-pumping or “primal screams†when you’re already crushing an opponent. Perhaps they didn’t act this way because they were playing a non-white opponent and it was a very close match? I’ve never doubted that they are the most accomplished, most talented female beach volleyball team of all time…I just wasn’t thrilled with their style or attitude, which has been bully-like during the 2012 Olympics.
Also, for what it’s worth, a great majority of the non-white members of the U.S. women’s track team seem to be respectful, well-spoken, and very gracious competitors. Sprinter Sanya Richards-Ross, who is married to NFL cornerback, Aaron Ross, seems like a very nice woman. 100m hurdler, Dawn Harper (who lost by inches to white Aussie, Sally Pearson), displayed a wonderful attitude in her post-race interview after winning the silver in that event. 30-year old hurdler, Lolo Jones, is supposedly still a virgin who is waiting for marriage. Sprinter Allyson Felix, the daughter of a minister, also seems like a very good person. Hurdler and rape/molestation victim, Kellie Wells, also displayed a very pleasant demeanor after taking bronze in the 100m hurdles…
CAPTION: Aussie, Sally Pearson, Wins Gold
I’m also surprised to see Bolt dating that Slavic mud-wrestler. There are at least some attractive women within every race (sans perhaps Aboriginal Australians), and black Caribbean women (Jamaican, Haitian, Dominican, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Barbados, Trinidad/Tobago, etc) are typically much better looking than their African cousins. What sort of non-mixed man, of any race, would want to taint something as tangible and sacred as his own bloodline? For a negro, Bolt has alot to be proud of, particularly if he's clean.
