I got into a Twitter beef with Lolo Jones over a blind white girl

by Therí Alyce Pickens

the blind girl lands a shot put where it’s supposed to land & the crowd is amazed at the amazingly talented girl who throws shot puts while blind. the amazing blind shot putter & i roll my eyes & i roll them so hard my fingers spit out words & lolo jones says she’s not getting pity claps lolo says this isn’t because she’s blind i say to myself u were supposed to be a hero & u were supposed to be a competitor who understood what it is to be different but i’ve got too much home training to say she’s just a bootleg flo jo so i write all intelligently & put that phd stank on the tweet the claps are by definition pity. people would not be clapping if they could have seen what she saw which is that she didn’t need eyes to land the shot put & i’m so mad i log off & i unfollow & i block her ass too & years later when i see allyson felix’s scar i think allyson might have understood what had happened she woulda got it. the difference between changing your mind & confirming it ’cause she’s black like lolo black like me but i’m more like that white girl with my body that people think is a whole lot of can’t & i wish i would see lolo on the street one day & i just know she gonna recognize me & be like we got beef & i swear imma be like lolo imma vegetarian