A real RPOTD

mrsconn23

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/olympics--greek-triple-jumper-removed-from-olympic-team-after-making-racist-comments-on-twitter.html

Her racist comment: “With so many Africans in Greece … at least the West Nile mosquitos will eat homemade food!!!,”

  Wut?

**O-Face**

Yeah...pretty sure getting removed from the team was the only way to go.

ReturnOfKuus

So Greece has white trash, too, then?

6fsn

Yeah, she needed to go.  I bet her teammates aren't crying too many tears.

PMeg819

I laughed when I read this because seriously, how could you be so dumb?

NOLABridesmaid

That twitter will get ya every time.

hmonkey

i imagine that yia yia will be yelling at her for the disgrace she brings to greece and the family. go on, yia yia.

zsazsa-stl

Hello, Devil's advocate here!

I can see how this would be bad if she were ranting about immigration, but on it's own it doesn't seem like that terrible of a comment.  In poor taste (hee, pardon the pun), incorrect (the mosquitoes aren't African, the virus the mosquitoes are spreading is), but it doesn't seem to say anything negative about Africans. I hear that Greece is lovely place.  Why is it a bad thing to state that there are Africans in Greece?  And why is it SO bad that she gets booted from the Olympics?

AuntFlo

From my experience with Greeks, they are a bunch of racists.