[OnlyTurkeysHaveLeftWings]

Gee, does your define her as a "determined Black American young lady" mean that we should differentiate her from the average "determined American young ladies"?

Why does her color matter enough to you that you used it to define her?

Because America has a complicated racial history, and it's always noteworthy when someone's the first to do something.

THink of it this way: Today's the anniversary of Jesse Owens winning his first gold in Berlin in '36. He'd get three more. Gabby Edwards' win is not as important in the history of American Olympians, but it's still significant.

In any event, recognizing someone's skin color isn't the same thing as defining them by it; it's nice to say you're colorblind, but that's supposed to be metaphor, not... literal.

[wtc911]

Nonsense. Her race has absolutely nothing to do with her accomplishment except to those who can only see it that way....you know, like the uber-liberal media who define everybody that way.

Her medal represents her effort and her effort alone.

[wtc911]

In any event, recognizing someone's skin color isn't the same thing as defining them by it

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Really? Then how about you show us any post you or the poster you are defending ever put up here that, in a story that is not about race, you described a White American as just that, White.