COMMENT: When looked at in isolation, the Caster Semenya saga could be simplified as a debate about gender identity in sports, but when one opens the history book, one will discover that racism is the determining factor.
wrote that Williams “has large biceps and a mould-breaking muscular frame, which packs the power and athleticism that have dominated women’s tennis for years”.
Besides being fascinated with the bodies of living black people, the white supremacist power structure also has a morbid obsession with dead black bodies. After Baartman’s death in France, her body was dissected and her brain, skeleton and sexual organs remained on display at the Museum of Mankind in Paris until 1974.
We are witnessing a 21st-century variant of public lynching, of Semenya. Yet the earlier variant was deadlier. Between the 19th and 20th centuries, many black people living in the American South were lynched. Those who missed the lynching were able to gaze at the images on the pages of their local newspapers. After the bodies were brought down, they were dissected and the body parts were distributed to the viewing public to keep as souvenirs.
How come Joanna Józwik, a Polish athlete who finished fifth in the 800m Rio Olympics race behind the gold, silver and bronze medallists declared that she was proud to have finished as the “first European” and the “second white” in the race?How come the requirement for hormone reduction medication only applies to track events from 400m to 1.
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