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Simone Blues

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Mary Trump Media

Media And Politics, Society & Culture, Fight For Democracy., American Politics, White Supremacy In Politics, Multiracial Democracy, Social Justice Podcast, Wajahat Ali, Danielle Moodie, Politics, U.s. Politics Podcast, Racial Justice, Democracy Podcast, Political Commentary, Defending Democracy, Political Podcast, News, Progressive Politics Podcast, Government

4.8703 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Simone Biles, greatest gymnast of all time, dropped out of the Olympics. Is this a courageous step or a disappointing choke? Is it both? A very contentious Democracyish.

 

Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Touré

Executive Producer: Adell Coleman

Senior Producer: Ryan Woodhall

Producer: Quinton Hill

Distributor: DCP Entertainment

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0:00.0

Welcome to Democracy-ish, I'm Toray.

0:13.6

And I'm Danielle Moody.

0:14.8

And this may be the last episode of the show ever because I might get canceled.

0:20.5

Danielle might divorce me.

0:22.3

Who knows?

0:23.8

But all of those things are a possibility.

0:26.5

Everything's on the table.

0:27.8

I'm, I have something burning in my soul.

0:33.4

I cannot lie to you guys about how I feel.

0:39.6

Simone Biles, number one gymnast of all time,

0:45.1

the Michael Jordan, the Tiger Woods, the Serena Williams of gymnastics.

0:51.5

Quit on the team and herself at the biggest stage.

0:59.2

And I thought immediately, what if LeBron got to game six of the NBA finals or Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods was on the 17th hole of the Masters.

1:12.4

And they said, this is too much pressure for me.

1:16.9

I can't deal with this anymore.

1:20.0

I need to leave.

1:24.3

You know, and you feel almost, and I think there's two things that I want to talk about.

1:28.9

I want to talk about Simone Biles and I also want to talk about my personal fear and in discussing

1:35.8

this from this perspective because there has been this overwhelming rush to be super supportive

1:42.7

of her.

1:44.4

And I know for a fact that there is another side.

1:49.1

There are people who think other things, but we are generally afraid to say it because

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