The one below is a trailer for a Netflix program scheduled to air July 17. Looks awesome, because she is a very well-spoken young woman.
Reposted from six months ago to add the trailer for the second part of the documentary, which I watched last night. The 4x45 minute parts are now available on Netflix. This is an absolutely superb presentation of a truly remarkable young woman and her outlook on life; it's not just for "sports people."
The debunking myths was a pleasure, I had only seen her in pictures with a say-cheese-smile or grimace of pain, and videos where she was a blur doing impossible things. You’re right she is well spoken and pretty too.
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A friendly note here, but the term 'well spoken' is overused to describe black people. A known 'micro-aggression', the description conveys, unintentionally I'm sure, inherent surprise that a black woman is articulate despite her racial, et al, deficit. I've been a reader long enough to know that our dear writer is a human rights advocate and has posted and written many times about social and racial injustice. So, again, this is a very friendly notice of another tidbit of racism that is still used unintentionally by privileged people.
ReplyDeleteMy extended family is multi-racial, so your assessment of me is correct. In retrospect I suppose my expressing admiration about a person being "well-spoken" may reflect an inherent bias on my part... about professional athletes.
DeleteTV and the internet have shown us tons of people from every race and background who are not well spoken. So much so that being presented with a person who is well spoken is a sort of a welcome surprise these days. There seems to be a lot of things considered micro-aggression by different groups of people which I (I'm sure I'm not alone) am completely unaware of. Lord knows how many people I offend without knowing it.
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It's not that it's a surprise that a Black person can be well spoken. There is room to be surprised that an athlete, of any race, who spends so much time climbing to the top of a sport had time or interest to learn anything else, including speech.
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