S3 Ep. 5: Nobody Has Beyoncé’s Weavologist: Gabby Douglas

American Prodigy: Becoming Great

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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Amira has a conversation with Dr. Samantha Sheppard and Dr. Courtney Cox answering, “Whatever happened to Gabby Douglas?” The trio zoom in and out of Gabby’s career, highlighting her as a transitional figure between Black pioneers like Dominique Dawes and today’s media savvy icons like Simone Biles. They also share their personal experiences as Black women in academia to help bring context to what Gabby was up against as a Black girl in white spaces. Click here for the transcript for episode 5 Click here for the Blue Wire newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode contains accounts of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and racism.
0:09.8	You'll also hear some swearing.
0:13.9	Previously on American prodigies.
0:17.3	So when I left, I wasn't even if I was only a black and training camp or internationally,
0:22.0	I always came home to a black city and an environment in my church and my school.
0:28.0	It makes a difference, I think it really does.
0:30.5	It was frustrating because all my teammates, it was during that time, everyone was doing
0:34.4	like the bang all curled on it.
0:39.6	And you know my hair didn't do that?
0:41.8	Did you try once?
0:42.8	Of course.
0:43.8	I tried lots of times.
0:44.8	I tried everything that they did.
0:47.9	It still bothers me today because being an Olympics was my ultimate goal since I was little.
0:56.6	That's all I lived for.
0:58.1	I had to work hard.
0:59.1	I mean, harder than these other gymnasts to prove that I belong to where I belong.
1:06.1	And that's one of the things with being a black gymnast.
1:10.0	We have to work twice as hard than everybody else to prove we belong to be there.
1:16.9	And it shouldn't be like that.
1:22.5	In 2012, at the age of 16, Gabrielle Douglas became the first African-American to win in
1:29.6	all around Olympic gold medal in gymnastics.
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