Zaila Avant-garde, 14, wins the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee Finals in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on July 8, 2021.LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Whether dribbling a basketball or identifying obscure Latin or Greek roots, Zaila Avant-garde doesn’t show much stress.
Zaila has described spelling as a side hobby, although she routinely practiced for seven hours a day. She is a basketball prodigy who hopes to play someday in the WNBA and holds three Guinness world records for dribbling multiple balls simultaneously. Only one word gave her any real trouble, “nepeta,” a genus of Old World mints, and she jumped even higher when she got that one right than she did when she took the trophy.
Westbaaaank!!!
Oh my god... Just think about how this will affect the self-esteem of all the white children of America. Why just knowing that a Black girl won something that was only meant for white children will harm white children forever... Damn Critical Race Theory 😭😭😭😭
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But don’t be fooled. This wasn’t just the fangirling daydreams of a few chatty media types. We had countless stories just like this one from that helped build Avenatti into a folk icon. They have…not aged perfectly.
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Yay!
Wow. That is fantastic! Makes me proud as an African American.
I see that she's 13 and 14 which one?
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