Posted on 07/10/2021 12:30:25 AM PDT by Jyotishi
Zaila Avant-garde is the new national spelling bee champion, but it's not the first time she's been on top of the world at something.
The 14-year-old from New Orleans was named the winner of the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, spelling words such as "querimonious," "ancistroid," "solidungulate." It was "Murraya," a genus of flowering citrus plants in Asia, that won Avant-garde the competition after runner-up Chaitra Thummala misspelled "neroli oil" in the 17th round.
13-year-old Zaila Avant-garde of Louisiana is your 93rd Scripps National #SpellingBee champion ‼️
The first African-American winner of the competition 👏 pic.twitter.com/y2Y5dAGcVN
— ESPN (@espn) July 9, 2021
Avant-garde becomes the first African-American winner in the 93-year history of the storied competition, and just the second Black champion overall. Jody-Anne Maxwell of Jamaica won the event in 1998, still the only winner from outside the United States.
Zaila Avant-garde can hoop As the Associated Press documented heading into the event, Avant-garde didn't start spelling competitively until she was 12 years old. Instead, the focus has been on basketball.
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But she would’ve won even better if it weren’t for all that systemic racism.
I’m sorry, i’m told now by “academic” libtards that demanding proper spelling is racist and acting white...
I feel badly for her. She rightfully won and now will only be known for being the first black.
Soon spelling bees will consist of spelling the first names of African Americans.
Avant-garde is not a name.
She must have weird parents.
Ancestors, actually, as that's her surname.
Haitian, I'd venture.
It’s not a name. Not a last name.
It’s a modern phrase describing a type of art.
So I looked it up just now. Indeed her Dad changed his last name to this in homage to John Coltrane, the avant-garde jazz musician.
You took the words right out of my mouth. GMTA
No one will get above a 50% on that.
I woke up my wife laughing at that. Well done.
Spelling bee changes rules to avoid ties
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/apr/24/spelling-bee-changes-rules-to-avoid-ties/
So in other words, they made it harder.
Black people who grow up in Louisiana have no chance of ever being successful at anything. Not only are they systemically oppressed by white supremacists, but they’re educated in some backwater red state where the residents are so stupid they don’t want to get government RNA injections.
Do I have it about right?
Changed his surname to "Avante-garde" - from what? "Post-modern?"
Regards,
From Bob Bourgeoisie!
You’re right, that is weird.
Why is it that I can’t find an article indicating which public school she attends?
But Zaila, who is home-schooled, claims to have it figured out.
And here I was, being told that home schooled kids don't receive a proper education... sure, she may be the best speller in the country, but I bet she knows nothing about CRT and how she's unable to achieve because of white people.
https://www.masslive.com/entertainment/2021/07/national-spelling-bee-will-crown-a-winner-thursday-night-meet-zaila-avant-garde-a-speller-and-basketball-star.html
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