The glare is even hotter for these Black women given that, after years of sacrifice and preparation, they are expected to perform, to be strong, to push through. They must work harder for the recognition and often are judged more harshly than others when they don’t meet the public’s expectations.
as director of a BLM nonprofit foundation in May. “A gold medal is not worth someone losing their minds. I’m listening to Simone and hearing her say, ‘I’m more important than this competition.’” “It’s like, know not because we’re some sort of special humans who are supernatural,” she said. “It’s because we live at those intersections where we have no choice but to know.
“I definitely feel like there was a lot of pressure for this,” Osaka said after the Olympic defeat. Weeks earlier, she had written anSome of these attitudes might be about age. Many young people feel empowered to speak about mental health in a way previous generations have not. More recently, Black women’s mental health is likely to be impacted by disparities in health and socioeconomics. African American women have a maternal mortality rate three times higher than white women, and are more likely to report not being believed when they seek treatment for pain from medical professionals.
Fanciful nonsense. Competitors compete. When it gets too hard they take the money and retire.
Public be damned first and foremost take care of yourself.
Sad and laughable take. Pressures and how people handle them are gender blind color blind economic blind. Enough of the “pressure affects me more” because of my color of my skin or my gender conversation.
AP quotes a couple of liberal activists and claims that they speak for “many Black women.” I watched those two beautiful women place gold and silver in the 400M hurdles last night. Let’s give them more attn instead. They pushed through.
Not just Black Women. Men and women of all races, especially athletes, even though many will remain silent.
It happens to ALL women. Mental illness doesn’t discriminate.
Never miss a chance to make it about race.
Give me a break!
Look if you aren’t wellenough to compete thrn don’t go. This stands for anyone of any colour.
Everyone is.
Of course they are
Press doing mental gymnastics to find a justification.
Literally everyone does this.
Mickey Mouse Gymnast
I have my respect for both women, but could you not make anything about race?
It’s a competition, correction, the biggest competition in sports. Of course it’s going to be hard, stressful, draining, demanding. If you aren’t ready to make those sacrifices find something else to do. Being the best is hard, but don’t whine about it.
Simon?
You have race and now you want to weaponize mental health too? Always the victims.
Oh and white women don’t? BULLCRAP!!
Meanwhile they can act like loud obnoxious assholes in public, often fighting each other in the streets and yet that’s okay?
So stupid to criticize Simone Biles, but even dumber to make this about race.
Simon says fix your spelling error
WTF Woke BS is this? So stay home. That's OK. Really it is.
Simon Biles has endured far more than anyone ever should. And, we should all be supportive of her and what she says she needs.
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