When LSU beat Iowa for the national championship, Jill Biden invited Iowa to the White House anyway, to share LSU's prize. It was only because Angel Reese said "Oh hell no, then I'm not even going to the White House. Y'all can keep it." That the White House walked it back.

Do you know how much courage it takes to stand up to the First Lady of the United States of America? Do you know how much racist abuse Angel Reese has faced every day since then, as a result of her standing up for herself?

If Iowa had won, there is no way that Jill Biden would have invited LSU to the White House as well. The sharing and the graciousness only goes in one direction.

I want you to know that Black girls feel the message of "You weren't supposed to win! We wanted the other girl to win! We resent you for winning!"

Don't do this.

Jasmine Shepard was the first Black girl to be valedictorian in the 110 year history of a historically racist and segregated school.

But she was forced to share the award with a white girl with a lower GPA.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywgynk/schools-first-black-valedictorian-forced-to-share-title-with-white-student

She sued to have this corrected, and lost. Because even though the court found that she should have been the sole valedictorian, she did not prove that the "error" happened *because* she was Black. Therefore a federal civil rights violation was not committed.🤷🏿‍♂️

If a Black person achieves something and receives an award, and your first instinct is to say, "They should share it!" Think deeply about why you are saying and feeling that.

If the Black person says, "No, I don't want to share it." Will your opinion of them change? Will you think they are being selfish? If so, then was your request really a request?

Angel Reese:
"All this has happened since I won the national championship."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lzjmEcu_hGs

1) Saying "I am going to win."

2) Then winning.

3) Then saying "No, I am not going to share my prize. No one before me has ever been asked to share their prize."

Is an act of unforgivable defiance, worthy of death threats? Seriously?

These are the things that made Angel Reese a villain.

@mekkaokereke when I was a kid, I took part in an inter-school book quiz thing. We reached the finals and won and the prize was to choose a book of our own from a tableful of books.

For some reason, the organisers decided that actually, all of us would get to choose a free book, and then gave first choice to the fucking losers.

Now we were all (very) white. I don't know a single black person at the time.

But, oh boy does that experience make me side with Angel Reese all the way.