zionlifts:

A Black woman, Simone Manuel, won a gold medal swimming and representing a country where 70% of Black youth do not know how to swim and Black youth are 3x more likely to drown than white youth. A Black woman won a gold medal representing a country that just decades ago would have closed down an entire pool for public health reasons for a Black body crossing the gate. A country where a hotel manager threw acid into his pool to kill the Black bodies swimming in it. It’s so much bigger than sports fam.

(Source: zionlifts)