Can we please stop!!! A beautiful, articulate, brave and powerful Black girl wins 2 gold medals and all we get in the digital universe, from mostly black females, are the chorus of boos about her hair and how she needs a perm and should represent us better. How about this: Gabby is a Black girl, knows it and isn't scared of her nappy roots showing. I'm like, damn!! We have to put our internalized self-hate on display for the whole world to see instead of congratulating and reveling in this Olympic moment.
And Ms. Douglas, you go right on ahead with your chocolate skin, flat nose, full lips, big thighs and developed glutes and don't pay none of our idiots any mind. As a matter of fact, I glowed when I read her comments about her win and what she thought of all the hater-tweets about her "unkept" hair.
"Nothing is going to change. I'm going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well just stop talking about it."
Judging by her comments we can see her parents did a hell of a job developing her athletic prowess and more importantly, her mind. All that it takes to win a gold medal while you're a teenager dealing with all the stuff teens struggle with and to have that focus and presence is nothing short of astonishing. She is an elite athlete at the top of her sport and some of her own people don't know how to give her the unrestrained support she should get automatically. I have to kind of blame it on this instant information society we're in too. I mean any and every idiot hits the send or enter button to air every random thought that should stay in the confines of their own small mind.
Me, I'm praying for her to take home the gold in tomorrow's balance beam finals and wear her hair proudly and defiantly just like it is.
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