Leslie Jones--black women don't put their head under water

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Black woman put her head under water and won Silver medal today.

Yes. That is why NBC airing Leslie's joke was a disgrace. Who knows it is possible an NBC writer wrote the joke not Leslie and that would be worse.

[Anonymous]

Leslie Jones was being herself.
She does not represent anyone except herself. Anyone who was embarrassed by her sense of humor has their own security issues that stem from a dark place in United States history, and I suppose that is okay too because it is to be expected in a place where people are taught to hate who they are and have a need to try to impress others who probably don't care about them anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like a set-up, honestly.

How?

Agree. Katie doesn’t seem with it enough to come up with that response unless planned.

I think Katie is very smart and "with it." Remember, she is alot younger than Leslie, who is 56 years old.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like a set-up, honestly.

How?

Agree. Katie doesn’t seem with it enough to come up with that response unless planned.

I think Katie is very smart and "with it." Remember, she is alot younger than Leslie, who is 56 years old.

Leslie Jones is 56? She looks good. Everything about her is so youthful. Good for her.

[Anonymous]

This interview embarrassed me as yet another early fail by NBC with this Olympics coverage. She had a chance to ask Katie meaningful questions and all she did was talk about her meeting with Katie's mom and, most embarrassingly, peeing in the pool. What a useless waste of everyone's time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like a set-up, honestly.

How?

Agree. Katie doesn’t seem with it enough to come up with that response unless planned.

I think Katie is very smart and "with it." Remember, she is alot younger than Leslie, who is 56 years old.

Leslie Jones is 56? She looks good. Everything about her is so youthful. Good for her.

Well black don’t crack fool

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Black woman put her head under water and won Silver medal today.

Yes. I hate that stereotype about Black women. I learned to swim as a young girl. There are plenty of Black girls and women who swim. We wear swimming caps. Simple.

[Anonymous]

Why was she interviewing KD?

Between this and Colin Jost covering surfing in Tahiti (yes, really), did NBC actually deploy SNL people to Olympics or some shit like that.

[Anonymous]

I remember from the last 2-3 Olympics there was a lot of criticism of the coverage. Readings have been going down significantly. I think they are just trying something different.

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I'm curious to know the race of the OP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Black woman put her head under water and won Silver medal today.

Yes. I hate that stereotype about Black women. I learned to swim as a young girl. There are plenty of Black girls and women who swim. We wear swimming caps. Simple.

And the tragedy is that Olympic champion Cullen Jones has been working for years to address racial differences in learn-to-swim and drowning rates. Maybe Leslie and Cullen Jones can work together to promote learn-to-swim efforts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious to know the race of the OP

I am ADOS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this worth a thread?

Not really but here we are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this worth a thread?

Not really but here we are.

I am sorry that thread on issues relating to black people irritate you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Black woman put her head under water and won Silver medal today.

Yes. I hate that stereotype about Black women. I learned to swim as a young girl. There are plenty of Black girls and women who swim. We wear swimming caps. Simple.

And the tragedy is that Olympic champion Cullen Jones has been working for years to address racial differences in learn-to-swim and drowning rates. Maybe Leslie and Cullen Jones can work together to promote learn-to-swim efforts.

I like Leslie Jones but this is why I l think that joke was thoughtless. It’s like making a joke about how women are bad at math or something — there’s no reason to discourage a group that is historically disadvantaged in a field by announcing publicly “we don’t do that.” How discouraging for a girl that might be dreaming of learning to swim competitively.