Gothamist: History Made at Olympics

puglsey

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:19:20 -0500

It seemed clear to me that he was irritated in the interview because the interviewer instead of asking him about his performance was overly obsessed with the fact that he's black. The guy should be able to take pride in his personal achievment rather than being designated as a racial spokesman, a role as far as I can tell is one that he's not asked for. bob costas seemed clueless too.

carpeicthus

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 23:24:12 -0500

This has nothing to do with race. People said the exact same thing when the very, very white Yevgney Plushenko won the gold and appeared surly.

Peter

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:12:19 -0500

What does it have to do with his race? You would think anyone who won a gold would be thrilled and he wasn't.

Peter

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:35:29 -0500

The public and the media always naively expects black athletes to be either happy faced pollyanas or nasty SOBS. They don't allow for third ways of being or acting.

Peter

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:18:41 -0500

Did you see the interview with Davis after he won? He didn't smile and the interviewer even asked him if he was angry. Weird.