Posted on 03/04/2023 9:54:35 AM PST by Rummyfan
The New York Times, that intrepid warrior for anything and everything that the Left is hysterical about, on Friday published a lengthy piece about a source of systemic racism that no one has ever noticed before: It seems that equestrian helmets are racist because they don’t accommodate the dreadlocks that some black horse riders wear. One black rider’s mother lamented: “Mostly everything in this sport isn’t designed for us.” Well, that’s got to change, and these Jackie Robinsons of the Coiffure, with the Times’ generous help, are leading the way to the Equestrian Helmet Justice that our society so desperately needs.
Chanel Robbins, the Times tells us solemnly, “has been riding horses most of her life, ever since her grandmother traded a cow from their family’s farm in Ontario for a pony when she was 7.” Horse riding “offered an escape from thoughts that weighed on her,” which included the fact that “she was the only Black girl in the neighborhood.” But when she grew dreadlocks, her helmet didn’t fit anymore, and that, as you must know by now, is racist.
Fighting back tears (really, the Times actually said she was), Robbins said: “I finally freaking feel like myself, and now society is asking me to change. I just want to be able to ride.” How dare Whitey do this! Is there nothing to which he will not stoop? Poor Chanel Robbins can only find relief on the back of a horse from the systemic racism that confronts her every hour in Amerikkka, but now Whitey has taken even that away!
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And if a white gal or dude were to grow dreads wouldn’t they have the same problem??
So wear a football helmet.
Not all black horse riders have dreadlocks, which is a rather odd hair style to begin with. What ever happened to high Afros?
“I make choices that don’t work well with the products you sell. Why you so racist?”
So buy a helmet that fits. Like everyone else.
I just seen article joke where some far left Dung Beetle claims that hospitals and white doctors are using “structural racism” to murder black men with surgery. Maybe we could stop this if we had more black doctors and fewer black entertainers and football and basketball players.
I wonder how long before I’m called a racist for having a black Lab.
She needs to design, manufacture, and market a helmet that will work with dreadlocks, problem solved.
Or maybe one chosen cultural practice is simply incompatible with another - and the individual needs to make a choice. Remember a choice? That thing we used to have to make ourselves before government stepped in to solve all of our problems for us? :)
She is nothing unless she has dreadlocks? She must not think very much of herself.
This was not a problem mentioned in Bob Marley’s Buffalo Soldier. :)
If there was a market demand for it, there would likely be a product. If this young lady senses a business opportunity to exploit the absence of a product, kindly she gather capital and put out her shingle.
I would respect her bravery in doing so, whether or not she was successful. It is a more rational approach than blindly calling everything racist. A tactic that deserves disrespect and scorn.
Oh they’d have more problems then that! For it would also be cultural appropriation and it may mean the death penalty.
I wish I could post pictures easily.
WHITE LABS MATTER
How can anyone sleep unless this horrible injustice is rectified?
Batting helmets seem to be non-racist.
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