Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Mon May-25-09 10:56 AM
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Racist East Texas home of David Koresh cheats kid out of Gold medal
I want to file this as a :wtf: moment?
There are so many things wrong with this scenario--but obviously the powers-that-be in that twisted racist redneck ****town didn't want this particular girl winning. 
http://theparisnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=4910d45c04c96f...
>>>snip
DETROIT — For 45 minutes, Detroit sprinter Kyetta Lewis celebrated her gold medal finish in the 100-meter dash in the Region III Track and Field Meet at Palestine High on May 16. But almost as quickly as she sprinted to a first-place finish, her gold was taken away following a controversial decision to re-run the race.
Following a long rain delay, it was announced that both the boys and girls 100-meter races were going to be re-run because of weather conditions when the races were originally run. According to Detroit track coach Dee Evans, neither she nor Lewis were notified of the re-run until just a few minutes before the re-run.
“If the weather had been that bad, then they should not have run the race in the first place,†said Evans, still fuming days later because of the re-run. “Kyetta had no time to get warmed up and, to make it worse, they (track officials) were telling me that a Dallas Gateway girl was going to be allowed to run again after she was disqualified in the first race.â€
Dallas Gateway’s Taylor Johnson was in fact disqualified during the first race because of a false start, while Lewis clocked a 12.53 to win that race.
Pay attention to the litany of failed assumptions This is ALMOST funny.
HWNN sees a news article detailing a track meet loss due to a restart or whatever. The student who lost out was from Detroit.
So HWNN assumes the following:
1. Palestine, TX is racist;
2. The runner from Detroit MUST be from the Detroit in Michigan;
3. Because the runner was from Detroit, MI, they MUST have been black;
4. Anyone who lost the race MUST have been white;
5. The judges re-ran the race until a white person won.
Couple of problems:
a. Detroit in this instance refers to Detroit, TEXAS, not Michigan (why would a HS from Michigan be running in a little shit town like Palestine, TX?)
b. HWNN admits in-thread that he has no idea of the racial makeup of ANYONE involved.
FAIL, Race-baiter.