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2010 Winter Games | Bobsledder part of Canadian history
By Alden E. Habacon
This is long overdue, but I thought that I'd wait until all the buzz about the 2010 Winter Games had subsided. During these Olympics something historic took place, bobsledder Shelley-Ann Brown became one of the first black Canadian women to win a medal at a Winter Games (possibly the first?).
Other black Olympians include fellow bobsledder Lascelles Brown, who won silver for Canada in Turin when he teamed with Pierre Lueders. Yes, just because it's historic doesn't necessarily mean it's important, but in this case, it definitely matters! Especially when so many Canadians assume that winter sports are white sports. It was just a coincidence that this happened during Black History Month.
Photo: REUTERS/Tony Gentile from boston.com
"I'm so proud to be Canadian, so proud to be black, so proud to be of Jamaican heritage, so proud to be female," Brown said, choking up. "I hope little girls in Canada see this, see what I accomplished and realize it doesn't matter your background.
From canoe.ca. Read the whole article at canoe.ca
(Above) KUDOS to CBC Producer Cedric Monteiro for turning this into the only TV coverage of this story. WATCH the story on cbc.ca/video.
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