Well, Derek Murphy was lying from the get-go with regard to his relationship to a long-time heckler of Snell. Once she found out who Derek was working with behind the scenes, she got very upset. And it's old white men that tend to hate Snell. Crust old white men who can't fathom that this fat black queer has logged that many race miles. Funny how there is proof that she has finished SO many races of varying distances, but everyone focused on the race where she was turned around prematurely by the event staff and missed about 3 miles. She has multiple DNFs and she speaks openly about them. And she's angry. For good reason, too. Even you mock her slow times. It's so childish and strange. She has a lot of loyal followers - and the message I've gathered from her is that you don't have the right to say she's not a runner and she's not helping people. You are not her demographic, because older white men tend to hate it when folks like her challenge your templates and your hard-dug neuro pathways. Change is coming and some (most) don't gravitate to that. So keep just focusing on the one questionable marathon and ignore all the other races where she showed up, ready to run for seven hours. And I know thousands of women and men who think she's shaking things up JUST right. I love your writing, it's really good.
Someone needs to call her out. Thank you
Thank you for this.
Well, Derek Murphy was lying from the get-go with regard to his relationship to a long-time heckler of Snell. Once she found out who Derek was working with behind the scenes, she got very upset. And it's old white men that tend to hate Snell. Crust old white men who can't fathom that this fat black queer has logged that many race miles. Funny how there is proof that she has finished SO many races of varying distances, but everyone focused on the race where she was turned around prematurely by the event staff and missed about 3 miles. She has multiple DNFs and she speaks openly about them. And she's angry. For good reason, too. Even you mock her slow times. It's so childish and strange. She has a lot of loyal followers - and the message I've gathered from her is that you don't have the right to say she's not a runner and she's not helping people. You are not her demographic, because older white men tend to hate it when folks like her challenge your templates and your hard-dug neuro pathways. Change is coming and some (most) don't gravitate to that. So keep just focusing on the one questionable marathon and ignore all the other races where she showed up, ready to run for seven hours. And I know thousands of women and men who think she's shaking things up JUST right. I love your writing, it's really good.