Top African American Figure Skaters
Monday January 15, 2007
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Hopefully and prayerfully one day in the very ‘near’ future, we will see another (or maybe even many more) black figure skater stand on that championship (or even Olympic) podium.
After Ms. Thomas won, I was so hoping to see at least one or two more of my people do it, but I guess it hasn’t worked out yet. As the saying goes, “where there’s life, there’s hope”.
It just shocks me that a country as big as ours there isn’t a black woman ice skater on the national team. Something is just wrong and it should be corrected. Our girls have as much right to become who they want to be just as their other country women. We cannot sit bye and just accuse them of filling up jails and street corners and not try to help them. They are out there and we should do something about it.