Posted on 06/21/2020 6:49:50 AM PDT by Stravinsky
One day 40 years ago, actor and stuntwoman Sharon Schaffer returned to her SUV after riding the waves at Silver Strand Beach in Oxnard, California, to find a racial epithet written in dirt on its windows.
In surfing, "there was always the good, aloha vibe," she said recently, "but behind the aloha vibe was the other vibe — a locals-only, whites-only vibe."
"I shrugged it off," said Schaffer, of Los Angeles and celebrated as U.S. surfing's first African American female professional. "But I don't think I would shrug that off so easily today."
U.S. surfing, still viewed as largely white and advantaged, may be undergoing a new awakening following the death of George Floyd. The sport that helped popularize the graphic T-shirt, birthed skateboarding and gave the world a name for loafing online is, like other American subcultures, confronting a scourge of racism that has thrived within its own ranks.
On June 5, Schaffer was received with loud applause as demonstrators seeking justice for Floyd, who died May 25 as a Minneapolis police officer held a knee to his neck, gathered on the beach in Santa Monica for a "paddle out" in his honor.
The paddle out is a Hawaiian ritual to honor the dead. It includes venturing beyond the surf line, forming a circle of people on their boards, splashing water and tossing flowers into the sea.
"We have a right to exist on this Earth," Schaffer told the crowd of people kneeling around her, some with surfboards in hand, according to multiple videos of the event. "We have a right to be in the water."
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Wow, what an epidemic. One unprovable incident four decades ago.
U.S. surfing, still viewed as largely white and advantaged...
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Without evidence
It’s getting embarrassing to be a white American and pay taxes like a moron. Follow the laws like a moron. Stay in the house with the door locked instead of going armed to confront these crazy folks who are Going Nazi on us. Because that’s what they are doing and we are their Jews.
and of course since they are incredibly anti-semitic they will be going after Jews too. They already are in some places or many places.
I have seen three marches in Brooklyn. These people don’t want Justice they want blood. make no doubt enter your mind.
I wonder what day of what month of what year it became too late to fight back in Germany
I wonder what that day will be here.
Just being white is racist according to liberals.
Actually it is the Hawaiian locals who are racist against whites. Don’t get caught in the wrong place if you are white in Hawaii.
Flour is racist.
When I was in Kindergarten (in 1975) our black teacher used to let the black kids pick their snack first every day (they would pick the good cookies and chocolate milks and the white kids would get stuck with the yucky cookies and plain milk).
Where can I go to air my butthurt? Is there a media outlet who would like to interview me? /sarc
Hawai’ians are some of the most racist people on the planet.
Popolos and Ha’oles agree...
were there even SUVs 40 years ago?
One of my favorite characters.
All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I’m fine.
Very true.
U.S. surfing, still viewed as largely white and advantaged
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Anything white people like to do is ‘racist’ apparently.
So, this happened to her 40 YEARS ago?
Poor thing. She never went on to do anything with her life.
I don’t blame her - I blame our Enemy Media that had to go back FORTY YEARS to find an incident and filter it through the lens of BLM.
Ridiculous!
Being a person of small stature, I was stuffed into a lot of lockers and trash cans through the years - I was portable, LOL!
Where are MY reparations for my damaged psyche and life? *SNORT*
Heh
Everyone in the beach towns knows about the Surf Nazis.
Try to take their line, they waste you
Just ask Bohdi...
No, there weren’t. I call BS.
I’m calling BS on this story. I don’t believe SUVs existed 40 years ago.
NBC is racist and trying to bring a revolution against America by accusing it of what they are. The classic leftist strategy of attack your opponents of what you are doing.
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