She got it๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ I screamed through the whole video ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
Losing your entire starting five to the draft only to then turn around and go 38-0 with a natty really is one of those accomplishments you canโt undersell. Thatโs like 100 levels past incredible lol. Especially when you put it in the context of present-day college sports.
Respectfully, colleague - The disappointing thing about this take is you actually canโt have an informed opinion on this if you are choosing to be gender neutral and racially indifferent. Because that is impossible. Her existence as a black woman shapes both how she is seen by others and how she sees the world. And in this case how she is seen by you.
Your response here is actually full of opinions that indirectly (and directly) involve both race and gender. Itโs just coded to unsuccessfully soften the blow. You have to ask why Angel became the villain. You have to ask why her role as โvillainโ has not allowed her to also be human. You have to wonder why her being asked a question and simply answering has led to this level of discourse. You have to ask what you mean when you say Angel wants to talk grown or pose grown?? What is โgrownโ a substitute for? You have to ask why trash talking - a practice many athletes engage in - is seen so much harsher when it comes from someone that looks like her. You have to ask how some of the ideas you expressed fuel the fire of the aforementioned marginalization. You have to ask why you heard her discuss unacceptable treatment and your reaction was to discuss how she canโt address it. And I have to ask if you spoke to any black women athletes about their experiences in order to give a more enlightened take before you came and said this.
Angel has absolutely made herself a public figure and she should be open to the criticism pertaining her game and persona. She should also be allowed to express when those criticisms are out of bounds. Why did you cling to her reaction as opposed to the vitriol that caused it? She certainly does not deserve sympathy for losing a game. She deserves sympathy for being attacked and targeted for things outside of said game.
As much as you believe this to be a take without bias, your reasoning proves the point you are fighting against. Opinions are opinions, and everyone is entitled, but our opinions are shaped by the paradigms we know. I hope no one says they are taking out gender and race, because in a black womanโs world, we do not have that choice. I hope you realize your luxury and privilege by being able to say what you said. I hope you look around and notice the people that have delighted and applauded seeing a black man get on television and give THIS opinion on a young black woman. Because itโs not for the reasons you think.
Thatโs my take.
Bob Costas who openly fawned over MJ on his broadcasts, just decided that asking these questions of anyone, let alone an 18 year old kid โฆ is absolutely normal.
What do yall think?
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