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JI7

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6. there were white americans claiming she didn't deserve the gold in 2012

Reply to wildeyed (Original post)

Sat Aug 20, 2016, 12:47 AM

Aug 2016

what i noticed and what many foreigners noticed was how so many white people kept insisting she didn't deserve it and instead some non american deserved it.

even the foreigners who were from the same country as the girls gabby beat kept trying to convince them that gabby DID deserve it .

but some americans just could not accept that a black girl won that award.

it has been horrible hearing the attacks on her over this . all the while many of the same people are supporting the trump.

and the fucked up media does nothing to call it out. they just think it's an acceptable thing to debate whether gabby hates america.

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there were white americans claiming she didn't deserve the gold in 2012 JI7 Aug 2016 #6