How racism undermined Linford's Olympic win 🏃🏿‍♂️🥇 - BBC 

Exactly

He can sit and tell the reporter that it didn't affect Linford, unbelievable

🎯 SPOT ON!!! 👏🏿

Drug cheat, nothing to be proud of.

He is 100% Jamaican.

@@anthonyharty1732that's not news... he represents U.K.

Same.

Same here

Exactly

Well done for realising...

I applaud you for being honest.

Ignorance is taught

@@karimtabrizi376 accepting I was wrong is a far harder lesson

I have to watch his clips again. I never thought that.

I happened to see it in the Sun at the time. It was actually a tiny end piece at the bottom of their editorial column,only perhaps two or three lines,the first line of which was something along the lines of members of the public having been talking about it,so was the expression dreamt up by the journalists or did it come from the public at large and get picked up on? Having never heard the item in question called that before,I was a little bemused by it. I suppose they couldn't resist the alliteration. It wasn't the first time I'd heard the jokes about black men reputedly having larger members that other ethnicities. At one place I worked at in the earliest years of the 90s a word emerged for it,supposedly an African one. I'm not sure I ever saw it written,only heard it spoken,so I may be spelling it incorrectly. Pundar. With the u prounced as in the word "put" for example. Is this a real African word? It may or may not have come from the Ugandan guys there,who were at least as capable as any of bantering everyone else,in which case the language they spoke is Luganda? No-one was getting offended,not least because they had better things to do and bigger fish to fry. Then,in the last couple of months of 1993,so upwards of a year and a quarter of the Barcelona Olympics 100m triumph,I was working,via an agency,at the Christian Salvesen depot on the Wembley Stadium Industrial estate. It was a pretty cosmpolitan workforce. The four-storey bulding had a canteen which served hot dinners. There were a number of young black folk in our group,mostly of West Indian or Caribbean heritage,though there were a couple of Somalis too,and a Ghanaian guy. Amid the banter and winding each other,and sometimes others,up they started referring to a male sexual organ as a Linford. It actually started when someone had a large sausage on their plate and one of them asked mockingly if they were really going to eat "that Linford". They also called the female sexual counterpart a Suzy,which I'd never head before anywhere either. I was never sure whether that too was named after a person in the public spotlight,and if so who? They also introduced words that came presumably from languages or culture they knew but a white British person wouldn't understand. One such that I remmber being used mockingly in one of their to-and-fros was a word that sounded like "doga" and appeared to be a term that was derogatory somehow about someone's sex life,though only they would have known its precise meaning.

He's a cheat, no doubt about it.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Then you are very ignorant.

@@mrnumba154 You can only speculate why they printed that news story, hence this is speculative racism. I.E I think it is racist but cannot prove it.

@@Chambers36TheEnterIgnorance is bliss

People like you 🙄

@@hopebgood British citizens - forced to fund the BBC's race hustling 🙄

Nice of you to cherry pick that news story

Are you ok John? Shame on you for disrespecting those kids. Shame on you

@@NickPhillips-yf2re shame on you, the UK government, UK police, for bringing this problem on us all!!!!!!!

@@larrygerry985 All top sprinters were taking something by then, the game was to avoid being caught. I don’t say I approve, but the topic of racism has nothing to do with that.

100% of nothing to do with this video.

@@Lord-ManPower Well he was banned in 99 for nandrolone use.

This video isn't about that though

Maybe you should watch the rest of the documentary before you comment. He speaks about it at length.

Good for you if it’s the past for you, but it’s not at all the past for many or even most.

If racism is not bothering you, why are you here commenting on a story about another Black man's experience with racism. Say nothing and move on!

@@v.a.993 Because the media perpetuates this false narrative to keep the masses divided. Next question?

@@kendalehamilton217 The biggest concern is that the State (government -- via police, judges and Fascism) violates the rights and liberties of ALL people, regardless of race.

@@modernretroradio993 Racism is not only liberties and rights not being respected.

And some people are sick of experiencing it.

@BritishJaguar So orange people should stop talking about racism? Then what else will Donald Trump talk about then?

Whats with the essay?

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