Axis of Weevil Pride Alert

I was wandering around the blogosphere today, putting off cleaning up that tacky spot in the guest bathroom, when I ran across a post at Bill Quick's about the PC labeling of African-Americans. A commenter there talked about the 2002 Olympics, when the first black person in the Winter Olympics earned a gold medal. He thought she was from a country other than the US, and that the TV persons were forced to call a "black" person an "African-American" for PC purposes.

The person he was referencing is Vonetta Flowers, who is, indeed, the first black person to win a gold in the winter sport. She is from Alabama. Pretty damned unbelievable, isn't it? I can't much blame him. Why in tarnation does a southern woman who might have seen snow maybe eight times in her life succeed before a Canadian black? Beats me.

Maybe there is a clue in her biography. Here is part of her backstory.