Olympics Bans Swim Caps For Black Hair

The amazing thing about growing out your hair as a black person. Is you just develop this amazing relationship with it? I love it. I love it, but you know who has no relationship with black hair the olympics. Yes, the olympics, who have booted out black woman, shikar richardson from competing in the 100 meter dash after finding out that she had smoked marijuana. This was just after a reporter had told her that her mother had passed away. Also castor cemenia, a black woman from south africa is not being allowed to run in the 800 meters. The event that she usually runs in because the olympics say that her natural testosterone level is too high. The olympics is allowing her to run in the 100 to 200 to 5 000, but not the race that she runs in and now, if that wasn't enough, the olympics is waging war on black hair. Yes, swim. Caps that are made for thick and curly hair are not being allowed at the olympics. Espn writes. Swimming caps, designed for natural black hair won't be allowed at the upcoming tokyo olympics with the sports world governing body saying they are unsuitable due to them. Not quote following the natural form of the head: end quote in the words of ric flair or if you live in the southwest side of minneapolis and you've only seen a few if any black kids on the swim team. With your kid you're like wow, look as somebody who competed in swimming in a regional and statewide level, it's tough enough that we're already amongst some of the pastiest bodies ever created on earth. Look we stand out like anything, ricky fowler is wearing at the pga tour. Look we stand out like bob rojanovic standing next to normal people. We stand out like black people in a sport that was designated for white people and essentially never wanted us to have the ability to compete in a sport, let alone do it in the first place, segregated pools lead to today and now the olympic committee is saying That black people can't wear swim caps because they don't follow the natural form of the head. Also, that sounds like phrenology is, if you don't know what phrenology is it's essentially something that white people created, it's like astrology for the skull, but it like promotes eugenics. It'S super up. Man just follow the link below. If you want to white people made it it's. Where is this at today? Well, the founders of soul cap who created swim caps for folks with thick curly texturized black amazing hair, said this. We don't see this as a setback, but a chance to open up a dialogue to make a bigger difference. In aquatics soul, cap co-founders talks, ahmed salwadeen and michael chapman tweeted, the high road, we literally live on the high road forever. I mean. How do you speak to somebody that says hey? We can't use the swim caps that you took your precious time and energy to innovate. We can't be inconvenienced by black hair and your response is oh, okay. Well, i'm glad that this could open up a dialogue for your for your own racism. Thank you, founders of soul, cat flowers. These flowers are for you they're falling for you. There you go