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Gabby Douglas is the first African-American gymnast to take top prize in the sport, and she is also the first American, period, to win gold in team and all-around competition. So, she is a little taken aback to learn upon checking out the Internet that one of the main concerns in the social media world is her hair. Apparently, the great netizens of the world don't care for it much.
She remarks, "I don't know where this is coming from. What's wrong with my hair? I'm like, `I just made history and people are focused on my hair?' It can be bald or short, it doesn't matter about (my) hair."
I think I would avoid the noise of the Internet if I were involved in such tense competition, but I suppose she might have wanted to bask in what one would assume to be unabashed adulation for her historic triumph. She apparently does not know the Internt that well. I trust she can forget about us and leave us flailing away on our keyboards in desperate obscurity as she goes on with her gold medal life.
She probably shouldn't listen to Fox News either, since the good people there question her patriotism because her outfit was not themed heavily enough with the stars and stripes. We will close with this comment from Tumblr:
She’s a cisgendered God-fearing Army brat with a gold medal and if she were white she would be considered an “All American Sweetheart.”
But because she is a person of color she could have gone in to the games on an American Eagle and won that medal with a apple pie in one hand and the flag in the other drinking a can of Coca-Cola whilst wearing a cowboy hat and she still wouldn’t be considered patriotic.
(Source: ONTD)
She remarks, "I don't know where this is coming from. What's wrong with my hair? I'm like, `I just made history and people are focused on my hair?' It can be bald or short, it doesn't matter about (my) hair."
I think I would avoid the noise of the Internet if I were involved in such tense competition, but I suppose she might have wanted to bask in what one would assume to be unabashed adulation for her historic triumph. She apparently does not know the Internt that well. I trust she can forget about us and leave us flailing away on our keyboards in desperate obscurity as she goes on with her gold medal life.
She probably shouldn't listen to Fox News either, since the good people there question her patriotism because her outfit was not themed heavily enough with the stars and stripes. We will close with this comment from Tumblr:
She’s a cisgendered God-fearing Army brat with a gold medal and if she were white she would be considered an “All American Sweetheart.”
But because she is a person of color she could have gone in to the games on an American Eagle and won that medal with a apple pie in one hand and the flag in the other drinking a can of Coca-Cola whilst wearing a cowboy hat and she still wouldn’t be considered patriotic.
(Source: ONTD)
