On Aug. 21, Sha’Carri Richardson became the fastest woman in the world at the 2023 World Athletics Championships held in Budapest, Hungary. Yet, she made it a point to only speak to Black media.
The track star finished with a time of 10.65 seconds in the 100m semi-finals, beating out silver medalist Shericka Jackson and bronze medalist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. Both Jamaicans, Jackson is known as the second-fastest 200m sprinter in history and Fraser-Pryce is a legend in her own right with seven combined Olympic and world 100m titles, according to NBC Sports.
BLACK GIRL MAKING HERSTORY
In her first World Championships and first World Championship Final, Sha’Carri Richardson wins gold with a new Championship Record time of 10.65 seconds!#ShaCarriRichardson #BlackGirlMagic pic.twitter.com/7YWZVdWw7q— The Black Women's Roundtable (@ncbcp_bwr) August 22, 2023
Following the race, she chose to only speak to Black media and told other reporters, “No thank you.”
"No, thank you!" 😳
Sha'Carri didn't stop to talk to ANY of the media, saying, "No, thank you!" She ONLY stopped to talk to these black journalists! 😬#NoThankYou #ShaCarri pic.twitter.com/9MEI9myLUP
— Unconventional Voices of Track & Field (@VoicesofTnF) August 21, 2023
Before this victory, Richardson won the Tokyo Olympic Trials 100m, but a positive marijuana test caused her to be eliminated her from the first round of the 100m at nationals.
The fiery runner is also known for speaking her mind, which has led to more public criticism, yet this did not stop her from going after her goals.
Often compared to Florence Griffith Joyner, known as Flo-Jo, Richardson enjoys rocking her long colorful hair in different styles along with long nails and lashes. Richardson was praised for winning the U.S. 100m title, entering the world championship ranked second in the world.
This is Richardson’s first global championship. She’s also scheduled to run the 200m on Wednesday, Aug. 23 and the 4x100m relay on Saturday, Aug. 26.
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Congratulations
Never forget that it was a White female “journalist” bringing the Karen vibes who ambushed Sha’Carri Richardson with the death announcement of her birth mother. It was cruel, intentional, and highly unprofessional. The Karenistic journalist has been protected and all mention of her name has since been scrubbed from online in connection with Sha’Carri Richardson. She maintained her job in the immediate aftermath of this “breach of journalistic integrity.”
Yes, that part. Talk to journalists, not hatchet, propogandists trying to destroy you with their false journalistic cloaks and daggers 🗡️. She did great! She issss Great!!
This needs to be more widespread information. They’re trying to give her negative media when in actuality she’s protecting herself! Nobody deserves what some media reporters and journalists will do, and she has every right to feel how she does. It’s outrageous they’re trying to shadow her victory and accomplishment with this. There should be nothing but full standing praise for this. 🖤
Good for her. I’m better means just that. I control the narrative now.
I commend her for taking back her crown and never relinquishing her identity
Well, would appear to be a racist act on her part. Imagine out cru if a white runner refused to speak to anyone who wasn’t white—that would be racist—as is this.
It’s not racist she just supporting those that support her. A white journalist did something very cruel to her at a delicate time in her life. I wouldn’t trust another white journalist with something as special as this either. They can get any story that means nothing to me from me.
But the white journalist also covered her running . Don’t you think that’s supporting her.
Yeah they funny no life having OFFSPRING of the slave masters
No you can’t support AND tear someone down. And think it’s going to be taken as support and geuininity lol she announced a death of her birth mother at her best moment. That’s so cruel
A journalist – who happened to be white did something cruel. Don’t turn this into a race thing!
Why not it is a race thing
Just like they did the ice skater
And Biles & Osaka
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She can interview with whomever she want too. I would not want to talk to white journalists either. White ppl were trashy towards her and now want to celebrate with her…please!! More black athletes need to do this. It’s time to stop givening white media access to our culture.
Its ALWAYS a race thing..stop playing with us..
Young lady more consideration would have been taken if that was a white Sprinter stop pretending that racism doesn’t exist
So all white journalist’s are bad right….. Your post is the essence of racism at it’s finest.
That was one white journalist. All of didn’t say anything about her mother so why ban them too. If a white athlete did that there would be racist accusations coming from all sides.
Well one journalist n all the other journalists watched n said nothing.
while participating in an event run by Caucasians?
Bye. She can speak with whomever she wants
I was not even gonna join this… But you sound like a Republican or Libertarian who wants to discriminate. They say the exact same propaganda you’re repeating.
PERIODDTT
I’m sure a Black Journalist wouldn’t bring up the subject to a white athlete about the death of their parent before the athlete was privately informed by their family. Isn’t it racist that that Karen who did this hideous act to Sha’Carri has not been outted and that Karen’s name and identity has been hidden, protected and scrubbed from the internet. Now imagine a Black Journalist doing the same thing that Karen Journalist did. A Black Journalist would have been dragged through broken glass and hot coals.
Facts and would’ve lost the job an possibility of being charged with some made up crime that they JUST PUT IN THE BOOK THAT HOUR
😂😂🤣🤣🤣 PERIODDTT
It’s always a white person crying when black people decide to defend themselves… who also defend the racist acts they survived. You sound ignorant and like you have no idea what white mainstream media did to her last time. Go educate yourself so you understand now FOOLISH your argument sounds 🤔🤫
Yet we have to walk on eggshells otherwise we are called racist.
Straight out racist. Poor thing felt offended by a white person so she holds it against an entire race.
Richardson is not being prejudiced towards a particular race. Instead, she is holding mainstream media responsible and choosing not to participate in their discussions. Throughout history, the division has not been caused by people of color. The term “Black Media” is used because we were not given a voice in mainstream media. There have been instances where we have been targeted and misrepresented. Richardson’s decision to directly address her community is not an act of racism, but rather a response to the unique experiences of black people.
No just the journalist who journal based on their own agenda
Naw she felt attack by a white person which you have a history of. Foh
Forgive her she doesn’t know who to trust !
Racism effects black people financially ,socially and economically how the fuck did this hurt KAREN ? STOP IT RETARD.
You know these clowns cry All the time pink DEVILS
Good your history shows that’s your racist M.O.400 YEAR’S AND COUNTING
You damn right!! As should! Whites been doing since slavery!! It don’t feel good do it??!
No you dont have to walk on eggshells, give her the respect you would give white athletes. She wouldnt have dared did that or she and her company would have been sued. See ShaCarri wasnt represented well. If so it would have been repurcusions. Now she’s represented well. It’s best to stay away if you have bad intentions.
No you don’t. You can be your authentic self. Others will know how to interact with you. I would rather know. Trust when I tell you, if I don’t like you. I will not be in your face. Why pretend? Be true to you.🤷🏾♀️🤗
You wouldn’t know what they mean cz you been sheltered your entire life from that fake agenda. You can say whatever you want and use the race card to get a free pass, white people can’t even calm this for what this is- blunt racism, cz then we’re accused of “not respecting her enough”. Of course I won’t respect a racist!
I think we fail to remember that racism is systemic and causes loss to a particular race of people in the areas of society, finances, and economy. What she did not affect those media outlets in any of those ways. But the media who has violated her caused privacy and caused her to loss endorsements and had her disqualified without being outed sounds more like racism to me than her preferring not to deal with the people who tried to destroy her. One thing I found out that slavery has affected all of us. African Americans are expected to be used and abused and still put up with the abuser.
But, you came on here to comment, and guess what she still doesn’t care that u don’t respect her! Lol! And neither do Black Folks! Ha! Now Carry on racist one!
Black people can only be prejudice towards white people, not racist – by definition, you have to have the controlling power to be racist. 🤷🏾♂️ so that’s why “your” actions would be considered as such.
Wow what a load of complete bullshit.
Say it again for the front seat bus riders.
Not for long… We takin sports media over too
We don’t really wanna deal with y’all tbh
Exactly🗣
Facts forget them white DEVILS
As you should, obviously you don’t realize what the ongoing problem is. Wake up!
Why walk on eggshells if you’re not racist? 🙃
Even if we don’t say anything racist we’re being accused of it. It’s as if being white is inherently a bad thing, like you have to “fix” your whiteness. It’s the same bullsht racism as before but now the wolves are cloaked in sheep’s wool.
Good. Suffer. Cause yo grand parents didn’t suffer as they should have.
Wouldn’t that be rich if we found out your grandparents were slave owners? 😂🤡
Well you need to check your family tree the question is did black people own slaves and what a shocking surprise that black people did buy slaves for forced labor so look in the mirror before calling someone a racist and if you want reparation for being sold into slavery go where it started in Africa where tribes captured other tribes to sell.
Yes, African slave owners did sell slaves. However, the slavery that existed in Africa was totally different from how the Europeans and Americans carried it. African slaves were generally chattel slaves to pay off debt or serve as a punishment. They were sold off for those same reasons. However, it is important to recognize the vast difference in treatment. Europeans and Americans were pretty brutal and quite sadistic.
Rt now it’s the OFFSPRING who gets the karma
Like The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said: Accept your own and Be Yourself… Thanks,Sister for not bowing to the bs
ABSOLUTELY.. THE HONORABLE ELIJAH MUHAMMAD WAS/ IS CORRECT. ALONG WITH HIS STAR STUDENT THE HONORABLE LOUIS FARRAKHAN
All praises
Ps: BLACK.PEOPLE ARE ENTITLED TO BE RACIST ! Especially to those devilish oppresors pretenting we’re all good ..this aint kumbaya MF 💯
YOUR DEFINITELY RIGHT. BUT I ALSO SEE THAT YOUR COMMENTS SAYS 0 WHEN A LOT OF PEOPLE AGREES WITH YOU. I WONDER WHY IT READS THAT WAY BC EVERYONE ELSE READS HOW MANY PEOPLE AGREES WITH THEM I BELIEVE IT’S BC OF YOUR MESSAGE
YOUR DEFINITELY RIGHT. BUT I ALSO SEE THAT YOUR COMMENTS SAYS 0 WHEN A LOT OF PEOPLE AGREES WITH YOU. I WONDER WHY IT READS THAT WAY BC EVERYONE ELSE READS HOW MANY PEOPLE AGREES WITH THEM I BELIEVE IT’S BC OF YOUR MESSAGE
Being racist is not defending. It’s simply being racist.
This article is untrue. She completed a long and interview with Hungarian media directly after her win. That being said, when do white athletes ever speak to black media?
They are doing this specifically to try to make her look against white people. It doesn’t matter if the article speaks on her accomplishment, because they’re still clouding it. Any media doing anything to shadow this feat is unacceptable. They need to go ahead and fire the first journalist who attacked her when she was vulnerable. This is being done because she is not just a fantastic athlete, but because she has the audacity to be black while being a fantastic athlete. She deserves unlimited praise for this, and nothing less. This is a WORLD RECORD! It’s 2023, and people need to do better.
We don’t have to imagine much because racism was already forced on us. We’re not accepting the narrative of equality for all and eventually we’ll all be equal one day when white folks feel like closing the gap. Yall created the environment so deal with it. What you gonna do be more racist 😒 I think your options are limited.
Blacks can be racist only if you can name a system that we have created that disenfranchises, discriminates and oppresses white people. Until then blacks cannot be racist.
B3@t it!
Go fly a kite with your bogus victim antics ! Karen was insensitive & divulged to the world a very sensitive & private matter ( her mothers death ) ! So if this talented athletic woman wants to only speak to her race because of the lack of integrity from yours .. then Good 👍🏾! too bad so sad for you & those who think like you ! You nor those who look like you or Karen the reporter control our narratives anymore ! Be big mad ! We don’t care ! The tides have changes we have as much if not more money & status than those who tried to stifle us & enslave us ! We own this country anyway ! We built it off our bloody sweat backs & tears ! So go cry a river elsewhere Jose ‘ ( all pun intended ) 🙄
So, if a “Black” person Robbed me, I no longer have to Socialize with the “Black” Race anymore, got it!!! I bet it wasn’t built on ur back, ur to entitled. I know damn well my “Whiteness” didn’t give me any extra push in life, I promise you that, I went out and EARNED everything I have and built.
What’s messed up is I was amazed and happy for her when she won the World Championship, not because she is Black or white, because she is AMERICAN. Nobody is more Racist in this world then uneducated self-entitled, want everything handed to them Black folk, as for the ones that get out and push hard to create a life for themselves, Much Respect!!!
Not racist at all!! It’s called boundaries & peace.
You got that right. And people feel she do right. RIGHT MY A.She wrong as hell. I’m colored n I don’t care for that
SPEAK TO ALL. BLACK MEDIA WASNT THE ONLY ONE THAT COVERED OUT THERE MEDIA OF ALL COLOR KINDS OF PEOPLE that cover her. She ain’t right .
How old are you? ‘I’m colored’…what?!?!? Are you really a POC?
Lmao from the name Ms Lady and using the phrase colored you can tell she’s one of original founder members of cotton, picking slave groups of 1899 😳🤨😂
Maybe she just spoke to journalist that she felt she could trust, who just happened to be black? Appearances can be subjective, and the ones who perceive it being a racist act are the same ones who protected the journalist that intentionally lacked compassion which caused her “trauma”. Now why would anyone run to a group that could possibly trigger her trauma after a win? Stop to think before you comment, because you are truly showing your nature.
Absolutely! Reverse racism is racism. Who ever is trying to make some shit up about it being ok to be racist against white people is nothing but a racist hater.
How do you say that in 1930s German?
She has the right to speak with whoever she wants to. If she would have talked to you all the past would come up
Look at your history & you’ll understand. Black folks don’t control the media. That’s her preference not because of color; it’s because of the dominant anti-Black history.
I don’t have an issue with it. Black journalists and publications usually don’t get the same opportunities.
Actually she didn’t talk to anyone other than the black journalist that she chose to speak with. She declined other black people just as she declined white ppl but of course the won’t make that plain and clear because the media loves to keep mess going.
Imagine a world where any African journalist would have the ability, resources, & support to frame the narrative on a white athlete? You cant cuz it doesnt exist so stop with the false sentimental based equivalencies
After the treatment white media gave her, I expect anyone, regardless of race, to not welcome them with open arms. They must know they hurt her, and she will not be a doormat. Respect is given to receive it. It was a racist act on the media’s part when they referenced her being a drug addict.
No worries white DEVILS need to be put in their place
As a white person, I also firstly thought this, but then I thought I’d read further into this heroic woman’s story. There must be more to it.
There was.
If someone had chosen that point to drop news on me like that in such a public way, I think I’d be choosing who I spoke to a lot more carefully, too! It was disgusting behaviour.
Sometimes it doesn’t hurt to listen to someone’s story before you make such statements.
Now u sound ignorant if you don’t think there hasn’t been white athletes that didn’t speak to Black journalists throughout history. That comments upsurd. Blacks aren’t known for being racist! White people are! Duh!
Racism only became a problem because white people started it. She’s only responding…Go girl!!!
Good for her
She did right!!! I’m really proud her not just the athlete but the proud black woman she is. ♥️
Keep up the Great Work. I’m so Very Proud of you. Miss Richardson. Always keep God First in your Life Always. The Devil 😈😈 Always Busy.
Sha Carri is now the new Queen of track and field. She has now risen from the bottom of society to the ultimate top!
I am Black but I do not understand the significance of that action?
The significance of the action is the lesson she learn” Rock with people who Rock with you. She respected the people who showed her respect. I am add to this lesson by saying that they can be any color.
With a name like Boris we don’t expect you to
So very proud of her and how she rose above all the ridicule!!! And handled herself very gracefully with a beautiful smile…. No Thankyou 🥰. Black girl magic is real!! Good Luck Saturday in the 4×100 relay!! Can’t wait to watch you make history AGAIN!! I Love every minute of your come back!!! You deserve it baby girl stay focused and keep hearing your grandmother whispering in your ear!! Because you know who you do this for and that’s all that matters!!
This randomly popped up on my facebook feed. Judging from these comments its obvious black people can be racist as as hell too.
She has a right to speak to whomever she chooses
Hold your head up and wear your crown beautifully Queen
These comments are crazy just like Richardson yes I’m colored. WE AS PEOPLE DONT RESPECT OURSELVES WHAT YOU GONNA EXPECT FROM OTHERS. U say what the white did what the black did. I don’t care for Richardson when she didn’t make the Olympics her statement after it hit the media KISS MY ASS with a pic showing p with a string under wear. Very disrespectful . Say what u wanna black white purple green blue yellow at the end of the day WE ARE ALL GOD’S CHILDREN . Now how you gonna bring that.
So are you implying that you can relate to Black people. You are a CLOWN. Nobody believes that nonsense you just wrote. You’re colored…well we don’t use that offensive term to describe us. Troll go back under your bridge or whatever rock you slithered from under. SMH
Good for her! She was burned by an unprofessional, in sensitive, narrow faced, headline seeking woman. I hope the culprit will spend the rest of her journalistic life writing about the care and feeding of hummingbird seeds.
Exactly. She can talk to whomever she pleases. There is no requirement for her to participate or engage with people she doesn’t want. The nerve.
First off, I like to say, kudos to her for real recognizing real. And 2nd see that is prime example of blaming the victim for wtf the aggressor perpetrator or in y’all case past present and future oppressors have done time and time again judge people who has PTSD towards a certain group? You ppl have no problem with grouping up together so I believe it long pass do my nation should return the favor now it maybe wrong , “so be it” in this day and time I rather ask for forgiveness, then permission and only God forgiveness not mans but in your case, ( not the man )forgiveness cuz you guys never know have to act ,still don’t and something tells me y’all never will smdh …So hey like the elders say ITS TIGHT BUT ITS OH SO RIGHT on so many levels no longer going along to get along . you ppl better find something safe to do asap… Hey at least she keep it professional and classy. Just be glad she didn’t pull out a folding chair, 💯%
She was scarred and wasn’t going to experiance that again. Her action wasn’t rascist it was a lesson to the media to play nice.
She can speak to whomever she wants. This isn’t the NFL or NBA. Seems she only spoke to the Jamaican journalist. Her name was mud in Jamaica and seems she made a strategic effort to correct that. Stop pulling the race card and being jealous trying to shake her after what ya’ll did to her when her mother died.
my daughter really looks up to her!
this would break her heart😢
That’s fine. All people can chose to whom they speak to or with. I fully endorse that right/concept. In this regard this runner and I are in agreement. I too heavily filter who I interact with, speak to and work with. I encourage all of my people to severe unnecessary cinnections to people who we are incompatible with. I would wish her well, but I won’t. It would be insincere.