This Poor Little Black Girl - Denied her Medal by Irish Karen

See-mone is exhausting.

Sometimes, it's not racism and just a mistake.

Other times, you know it's racism masquerading as a mistake.

You don't just skip over someone "accidentally" if you're handing out medals when there's no reason to go in any order and everyone is supposed to get one.

The bitch left the podium with one fucking medal stuck to her greasy hand. Well hello bitch, there is a little girl missing a medal, dumb cunt!

So pissed about this story

Racist old bitch. Some people never change.

R1

No, racists are exhausting.

The Irish Federation really effed this up and are trying to get out of this. BBC News is carrying it with both Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles trying to locate the girl to give her encouragement. The girls family wants to have the video taken down as they fear they will be the targets of harassment.

R1 Racism is exhausting.

I wish white people were sick of doing it as much as they are sick of hearing it.

Keep the video but next time blur the faces. What was the reason given for this shameful incident?

Marjorie Taylor Greene has entered the conversation at r10.

[quote]A white woman won Miss Universe Zimbabwe this year and black women are pissed. Then, should a black person win a medal for an Irish team?

Not only is your whataboutism lazy, R10 but your comparison of a subjective beauty contest to an athletic event where the participants objectively earn points based on technical performance is absolutely moronic.

Plus, they were participation medals. Everyone on the team was acknowledged before the crowd and peers. Except the black girl who had to had to be chased down once someone noticed Karen's "mistake."

Jesus, let's all use our meager F&F allotment on the racist freak who has no appreciable activity in his prefrontal cortex.

[quote][R12], My point was that if white people don't belong in Zimbabwe, then black people don't belong in Ireland

R13 I think your point should be that racist assholes come in all colors, and are found in all parts of the world.

Horrible people in real life and on-line

Wow - this makes me ashamed to be 1/4 Irish. It seems that some were participation medals so every girl should have received one.

[quote]Wow - this makes me ashamed to be 1/4 Irish.

Just amputate your legs below your knees. Problem solved, dear.

This was deliberate. Back in the 70s Dublin establishments were displaying swastikas.

Gee, r9, ya think they actually might have a REASON?

Does she have a GoFundMe yet?

R10, You win a medal. Guess WTF for.

A birthplace does not denote color, no matter its commonality.

But cutting to the racist chase, the Black girl WAS ALREADY ON THE TEAM. She therefore---and without argument or excuse or "she got it later" stupidities---deserved to receive her medal WITH her teammates, BEFORE the fans, and BY the awarding Official.

And a "To Whom It Concerns" salutation does not indicate a sincere apology is to follow.

That sweet little girl just standing there while she gets passed over. So awful.

Disgusting behavior.

R19 can you elaborate? I am shocked because I thought that the people of Ireland were at one point treated very badly and enslaved? Why would they put a girl down like that? Wow. I did hear about an Irish actor saying if a black man assaulted a woman that he would kill him? I’m trying to remember the incident. Are there few people of other ethnicities except white catholic in Ireland?

The horrible woman looked right at her and passed the girl by. WTF! Those types of racists will do that just to get the girl to react so they can say she is violent or mentally unstable. DISGUSTING

R24, Not much to add. I was there for a couple days and saw what I wrote.

I don't think the Irish (and my paternal side is from County Donegal) were enslaved, but I also don't care enough to Google!

Were the swastikas more about anti-British sentiment? Ireland remained neutral during WWII. I'm sure there were many reasons for it, but I've read mistrust of the British and the thought being allied with former enslavers was unpalatable.

So no answers in 8 hrs? I did not mean to be disrespectful.

“Irish gymnastics” sounds like something done at 3am on the side of a road.

R24 Just look at the brilliant Bernadette Devlin McAliskey in the 70’s.

When she came to the US and saw how the Irish were treating black people, she called them out. When she was given the keys to the city, she gave it to the Black Panthers.

R27, I was a tourist for a few days, not a historian doing research, FGS. I have nothing to add to either my observations or this discourse.

Search elsewhere.

It was very deliberate. It is a by the numbers microaggression. What really bothers me is this old bitch is a racist, whatever, but how low do you have to be to embarrass an eight year old? Now this old cunt is international news, will get hate mail and she’ll make bank crying about cancel culture on every nazi news channel.

Where is the video?

Here’s the video R32 —I just noticed how the two white girls on each side of the Black gymnast are visibly concerned about what’s happened.

Her little face. This is really sad.

Bullshit, R19.

The photographer instantly realized what was happening. Why wasn't he the adult in the room and force Karen to correct her slight immediately?

Also I would like to see the photos he shot of those girls. They all realized what was happening and were upset.

Is that what they call 'Black Irish'?

It's being reported that the woman who denied the girl her medal wrote a long apology letter to the girl and her family LAST YEAR after the incident and the Irish Federation withheld it.

Seemed deliberate. As in the Karen couldn't even register that a black girl was standing there.

I wasn't asking you, r22/25 You'll notice I didn't tag you at r26, meaning it was a question for all participants on this thread. You are not the only person here who can be a source of knowledge.

So, this is last year's news? Why post it now, OP?

R40, I was the only one to mention the symbol, so whatever.

R41 The timing of it is what bothers you?

Racism exists in Irish culture, but the culture is not overtly racist. Never heard of swastikas in Ireland and a google search shows nothing about it. Most of the Irish I've met have been fairly progressive and anti-racist. All of them that I know loathe Trump and his followers.

Having said that, this is clearly an example of racism.

[quote]So no answers in 8 hrs? I did not mean to be disrespectful.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

Every post you made in this thread makes you sound like a fucking lunatic, do you know that?

Gretchen: Stop trying to equate “Irish slavery” (which is not a thing) with chattel slavery. You’re wrong six ways to Sunday.

That wasn't a mistake. What a vile woman.

There were Irish indentured servants in the colonies. No, it's not the same as chattel slavery but it is horrible. However, the Vikings did enslave the Irish and there was a huge slave market in Dublin. IYKYK

R48 —reporting from the faux Celtic branch of Klan Grannies, 2nd Division.

Stop now. Full stop.

Slavery was never a big thing for the Irish. Indentured servitude was nothing like slavery. Whatever the Vikings did was long ago and fleeting. It's what the English did to the Irish, systemically and over many centuries, that was the real source of oppression.

They were invaded, colonized, subjugated, disenfranchised and wholly excluded from public life and political power, driven off of their lands, forced to pay English and Scottish (so-called "Ulster Scots") landlords to exist in their native land, had their native religion outlawed and risked imprisonment and death to practice it, and finally they starved to death during famines that only affected potatoes, the only crop they were allowed to eat, while wheat and corn and plenty of meat and dairy left Ireland to feed English mouths as Ireland starved.

Nothing to do with "slavery" so stop comparing the two. American slavery for African Americans was a brutal regime without comparison. What the Irish suffered was also brutal and lacks comparison. There is no point to comparing the two, and conflating their experiences does nothing to address what caused them.

My facts in R48 trouble you?

You reported no facts, just your self-justified bigoted jibberish. Don’t even try—go straight to hell R48, do not pass Go and do not collect $200.

Your "facts" are dumb. Indentured servitude happened to Irish immigrants in the United States - Irish Americans. It's completely irrelevant when discussing these racists on display in Ireland today, that wasn't their history.

It's like saying the internment of Japanese Americans and immigrants in the US was part of Japan's history -- it wasn't. It's Japanese American and American history that had no affect on Japanese in Japan today.

You're unhinged R52, etc, and you're assuming I am other posters I this thread. Sad. Misery isn't binary. It's a sliding scale. Because Africans had it horrible in slavery does not cancel out all the other suffering in the history of humanity.

The Viking most definitely took Irish slaves. You are a troll and ignorant about any history that doesn't correspond to your agenda.

You “historians” don’t know your ass from your elbow.

[QUOTE]Every post you made in this thread makes you sound like a fucking lunatic, do you know that?

Really? Explain, please. I made an inquiry and sincerely asked for a response. Now, since you believe either I or the basis for my question is illegitimate or entirely inappropriate, it's incumbent YOU to explain rather than relying on Trumpian tactics when clearly "every fucking post" is not what you claim it is.

Fascist misinformation everywhere.

If the Irish indentured servants had it so bad in America how did they end up becoming plantation overseers and cops? Not to mention some of the biggest fucking racists in America these days are of Irish descent. Bannon, o’Reilley, Hannity to name but a few.

You know zero about American chattel slavery. So cram it.

Guys, you can ignore the trolls bleating about vikings and "irish slaves." The one loon in this thread is definitely worth a block.

I'm Irish American and I think I know the history of our people pretty well, and nothing we experienced in the US approaches what African slaves endured, or the history of racism and violence that persists to this day against black people. It's ludicrous to compare the two, and anyone insisting that they are comparable is either a crazy person or a bigot with an agenda to push.

[quote][R41] The timing of it is what bothers you?

No, the fact that anyone with a brain knows exactly what OP was doing when he posted this (last year's) news.

R60 the Daily Fail posted it this weekend as one of their top news stories.