Had Brittney been a “blondie”, would the United States have acted sooner to rescue her? MsReads via mcclaurintweets
)? Doesn’t attaching him to Brittney as a condition of her release complicate the possibilities for her?
Shame on us, shame on US gender inequality in sports, shame on American athletics! We decry disparate practices abroad around multiple issues, yet perpetuate racial, gender, and sexual orientation discrimination and inequality at home. The success of the U.S. women’s soccer team to gain “equal gender pay” was a step in the right direction, but not all women’s professional sports have made the shift into a gender equity mindset and practice.
For example, John McEnroe was notorious for his disruptive and disrespectful behavior towards tennis chair umpires, and more recently, former tennis player Andy Roddick tweeted this response about Serena’s treatment: ”…I’ve regrettably said worse and I’ve never gotten a game penalty.”women athletes are treated. It is symptomatic of global anti-Blackness since Williams has faced virulent racism from umpires and fans .
According to a 2012 report by The Sentencing Project , while the incarceration rate of women and girls peaked at 475% between 1980 and 2000, it has since declined. However, it is still an extraordinarily high incarceration rate . Today, Black scholars like Dr. Trica Keaton , a former University of Minnesota professor, now teaching at Dartmouth College, gives us insight about the reality of anti-blackness in France, based on her own experiences and over a decade of research.
But to the matter at hand — when Brittney is back home and free, she may have her own stories of racism in Russia to add to our knowledge of how anti-blackness circulates as a global phenomenon.
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