Black girl at centre of Irish gymnastics race row ‘badly let down’, says ministry
www.theguardian.com
Statement comes as it emerges that head of Ireland’s sporting authority told family girl’s treatment was not racist

Video of the event in March 2022 shows a judge handing out medals for participation to a line of young gymnasts, but ignoring the only black girl. A photographer, coach and other officials fail to intervene. A mediation settlement reached with the family involved the judge taking anti-racism training.

  • TTH4PEnglish
    67•1 year ago

    Video is damning. Feel so bad for this kid. :(

      • @Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7•1 year ago

        Then they wouldnt wait a year to apologize and only do it after the video went viral. If it happened to me I would apologize SO much instantly

      • @Firipu@startrek.websiteEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        Then why, in an initial statement, did the gymnastics federation claim it was not racism but an issue between the judge and the family directly. That doesn’t indicate it was an honest mistake. Also, if it was an honest mistake, she would have gone back a few min later to give her the medal and apologize. The kid only got her medal x days later.

      • @Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        It may not be your intent, but this is how racism is accepted and flourishes: by not acknowledging it or hand-waving it away. And no, “it can’t be racism because then it would be blatant and obvious racism” is not an acceptable argument.

        You keep referring to details not in the articles, or reasons that the judge might have had, rather than what’s 100% obvious and in our faces. Watch the video. The judge had chances during and after to correct her “mistake”, but no. The medals weren’t too tangled to be given to the the girl before and they seemed to be untangled for the girl after. The end result was a line of young gymnasts, and the little black girl is the only one standing there not wearing a medal.

        And to be clear, others share the blame for not questioning or intervening at the time. That’s why this is an issue of systemic racism, rather than just one incident…

    • @apis@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      The way she starts beaming even more the clearer the situation becomes just kills me.

      By contrast, I like how the child to her immediate right seems to be wondering why she wasn’t given a medal, and looks around as if she’s hoping to summon someone’s attention to address the problem. She looks too young to twig the reason for the omission, but she sure seems to get that this is not how things should go down.