Jamaican Newspaper calls the Jamaican Bobsledders a Flop #jamaicabobsled #jambobsled

[Wahalla]

Y yanki paradigm is different to yardi..…


There is a story I just saw online badmouthing the Jamaican bobsled team head gear claiming it is rascist , watermelon head gear....I looked at it and thought it was a clever combination of the national colours......

[Gen]

i saw reference to the headgear as well but the helmets i saw just looked like regular ones with ja flag colors

mi mussie a get blind cause i had to look really close to see what they were talking about

[CeaBee]

[CeaBee]

me never look too hard at it before

[blugiant]

Y yanki paradigm is different to yardi..…


There is a story I just saw online badmouthing the Jamaican bobsled team head gear claiming it is rascist , watermelon head gear....I looked at it and thought it was a clever combination of the national colours......

it look like a watermelon fe troo. wahalla diss oww yuh tunn watermelon ann racism back pon dem. durinn slaveree da food dat dem serve da slaves were loaded widd salt. itt cah da enslaved african use fe nyam watermelon ann watermelon serve as diuretic ann got ridd aff sum aff da salt y more slaves neva died sooner aff iigh blood pressure

dat y watermelon iss a good food

[blugiant]

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Jamaican Bobsled Team Wore Watermelon Helmets, But Why?



As millions watched the Winter Olympic Games over the weekend, many were taken aback when the Jamaican bobsled team took front-and-center sporting helmets with watermelon motifs painted on them. The controversial and insensitive move left many, particularly African-Americans, scratching their heads in wonderment, according to TMZ.

The bobsled team of two, Winston Watts and Marvin Dixon, whose country’s major exports are sugar, bananas, coffee and rum, chose instead to not promote one of their main agricultural offerings but to tout a symbol at the Sochi Winter Games that strikes a negative chord for blacks on these shores.

The watermelon stereotype got its roots back during slavery times, when Blacks in this country were viewed as mindless creatures. Whites assumed that all slaves pined for was not freedom but just some shade and cool watermelon to eat. They believed Blacks were simpletons, with an unusual affinity for watermelon and so the fruit became a key symbol in the iconography of racism in the United States.

According to the Black sports duo, watermelon is not a “thing” in their homeland, so they had no hesitation about sporting the helmets.

Even though reportedly, Watts and Dixon are not destined to win a medal of any color, perhaps they felt they had to protect their melons with another melon!

http://newsone.com/2900734/winston-watts-marvin-dixon-watermelon-helmets/

[blugiant]

Jamaican Bobsled Team -- Watermelon Helmets? Watermelon Helmets.


File This Under: "Questionable Decision Making" ... but the Jamaican Bobsled Team competed over the weekend wearing helmets that looked like watermelons.

Of course, in the U.S. ... there's a well-known stereotype about black people and watermelon -- but in fact, it's not really a "thing" in Jamaica.

Still, a little weird to see a team consisting entirely of black people wearing helmets that look like watermelon.

As one Jamaican source put it ... "I don't know about any stereotype ... all I know is we eat them, not put them on our heads."

http://www.tmz.com/2014/02/17/jamaican-bobsled-team-watermelon-helmets-watermelon-helmets/

[remo]

Small country like Jamaica is #29 on the planet...Under funded under trained ..what unnu expect a Medal?
Cut di man dem some slack....They will get better

[jah_yout]

Do you agree with the Jamaican Observer calling the Jamaican Bobsledders a "Flop". The headline reads "US skating pair break world record, Jamaican bobsledders flop". They achieved so much just getting back to the competition.

HUUUUGGEE FLOPP mi seh!

total embarrasment--- from the start-- losing their luggage--- the ridiculously bad runs on the track--- the cooning---it was absolutely a mess

[Tuff Gong]

They will probably try harder in Cool Running II (The Movie) and maybe they will place higher, if not win outright?

[Pepper]

They achieved so much just getting back to the competition.

Very big achievement.

The headline was a disgrace. The editor should suffer some consequences for allowing that to go to print. Did he or she consider the gentlemen who made sacrifices in order to represent their nation in the olympics?

Yes the came in last, congratulate them for the effort. Encourage them in their future endeavors, be it bobsledding or banking.

[Wahalla]

They will probably try harder in Cool Running II (The Movie) and maybe they will place higher, if not win outright?

Cool runnings II the Thailand connection... a Thai from Pattaya dreams of Olympic Glory...

Not the real story where world class violinist Vanessa Mae enters the Slalem and does not come last and went down a "Storm"....

I thought she was younger.... and she is a good violinist makes classical music accessible!......

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/winterolympics/article-2561900/WINTER-OLYMPICS-2014-All-smiles-British-violinist-Vanessa-Mae-despite-finishing-dead-Giant-Slalom.html

[Tuff Gong]

Cool runnings II the Thailand connection... a Thai from Pattaya dreams of Olympic Glory...

Remember Eddie The Eagle?

[RichD]

maybe dem jus choke like how manning choke in the superbowl

[CurtisD]

So true....

"perhaps they felt they had to protect their melons with another melon!"