Posted on 08/08/2016 4:26:21 AM PDT by blam
Tyler Durden
August 8, 2016
Michael Phelps may be the greatest Olympian the world has ever known but for CNN host W. Kamau Bell, he is just a "tall, successful, rich white guy" who clearly didn’t "need the honor" of being chosen by his athlete peers as America's flag-bearer. Instead, Bell exclaims, Ibtihaj Muhammad, a woman, an African-American and a Muslim to boot, should have been chosen because "right now America has enough tall, successful, rich white guys hogging the spotlight trying to make America great."
After Phelps was chosen by his fellow Olympians, the U.S. Olympic Team tweeted proudly....
But, as BizPacreview.com reports, liberals wanted U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps to give up the honor of carrying the American flag and leading his country’s athletes at the opening ceremony for the Rio Olympic games Friday night.
He’s the wrong color and the wrong sex.
W. Kamau Bell, host of CNN's "United Shades of America," described the swimming sensation as a “tall, successful, rich white guy” who clearly didn’t "need the honor."
“With 22 Olympic medals, you are already the most decorated athlete in Olympic history,” he said.
But American fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad is a different story...
...a woman, an African-American and a Muslim to boot.
“Muhammad carrying the flag would be much bigger than your one moment,” Bell writes. “It would be a symbol for our country in this moment when we are mostly known for one of the most contentious, controversial, scandal-ridden, hateful, xenophobic, jingoistic, and just generally unlikable presidential elections in recent memory. This is at a time when we could use some more symbols of unity and togetherness.”
Bell referred to Muhammad as “a one-stop inclusion shop due to her race, sex and religion. Phelps, on the other hand was something else entirely.
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(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
And.....the wrong religion.
Isn't phelps a fag?
Isn't that worth diversity points anymore?
It is more than being the ‘wrong color’. It is specifically anti-white.
where did you ever get that idea? Don't tell his fiancee.
“where did you ever get that idea? Don’t tell his fiancee.”
Or the kid he spawned with her
W. Maumau Bell needs to check that black racist attitude.
Yes, replace the most decorated Olympian ever with a never-won-a-medal Affirmative Action choice. That is the perfect representation of imbecilic liberalism. It is not performance or accomplishment that counts, it is skin color, gender, and “Mooselimb” religion.
Muslim olympians need to be deported, not given flags.
I earned all my wages, but according to the socialists, I don’t “need” it and it should be taken away and given to those who didn’t earn a dime of it...
Man, when it happens,it is going to be ugly..
“With 22 Olympic medals, you are already the most decorated athlete in Olympic history,” he said...”
Well duh dimwit. That’s EXACTLY why Phelps is the pack-leader.
Allah didn’t will it donchano.
Won’t bother to read the editorial.
Phelps was the flag bearer because he received the most votes from the entire US athletic delegation, which VOTES who the flag bearer will be!
This is equivalent of hand licking perfumed prince Obama to fill the new position of “President” of the Harvard Law Review just ‘cause he seemed right for the position. No accomplishments, no ability, just a smiling face. (Retch!)
We need to fight back against this blatant bigotry, and I say good for Phelps in turning down the PC “offer”
“Isn’t phelps a fag?”
Apparently you don’t watch the Olympics ...
Wrong Swimming Olympian:
Olympic Swimming Legend Confirms He's Gay
(Ian Thorpe)
Nope.
You are mistaking him for Greg Louganis . . . and maybe even Caitlyn Jenner who once had the incredibly masculine name of ‘Bruce.’
Get ugly how? It’s been happening since 1964.
This is bigotry, and should be clearly identified as such.
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