Quote Originally Posted by Thorn View Post
I'm white, but if the black community feels that Semenya is being judged unfairly due to her race, it isn't my place to say "don't play the race card", it is my place to ask them why they feel so. It is my place to try to understand. With all people under all circumstances, we have to remember that scars run deep and what may seem to be benign to us, may be a trigger. Racism is a very painful scar.

http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009...dominates.html
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Let's look at who else has had gender questioned (in track): A polish sprinter, Eva Klobukowska and an Indian runner, Santhi Soundarajan. So, those who have a tendency to blame everything on race will surely do so, but they're not correct. (By the way, though they're hard to find on the net, the one photo I saw of Eva on CNN showed a not-very-masculine blonde-haired girl. Probably had/has blue eyes, too.

My (step)sister spent a lot of her early life blaming everything on race. She then found greater happiness when she realized that the only person she was punishing was herself; by blaming everything on race, she was actually holding herself back. She decided, Am I being unfairly judged sometimes because of my race? Surely. But just as often I'm probably not, so why go around with this chip on my shoulder? She launched her life fantastically after that epiphany.

Anyway, I've been reading quite a bit on this case... and this is the first and only article I've found bringing race into it. Why? Probably because it's the only article to ignore that all athletes at the top of their game are questioned in one way or another, regardless of gender or ethnicity. Every single one.