Hiding black faces of the Winter Olympics at Peyong Chang

Hiding black faces at PeyonChang. Image [Sportguru Wikimedia Commons]

Is it me or is there a deliberate attempt to block out and hide black athletes taking part in the Winter Olympics? I know there are some black athletes participating but you never see them on camera. For decades now, the Winter Olympics has been seen very few black athletes. For those who make it to the game they are barely seen on camera as if they don't exist even when they are part of a team. Is this deliberate or just an innocent omission?

CBC Cameramen cropping out black athletes?

I was just watching the 4-man bobsled competition at #peyongChang2018. Of course it is tough to tell who is on the team but I was alarmed to see the effort the cameraman  from CBC Canada went to in order to cut out the black faces on the Canadian bobsled team during a #CBC interview. The picture of the white bobsledder being interviewed was so radically cropped just to exclude the other members of the team who were black. Eventually toward the end of the interview, the cameraman included the rest of the team briefly. I wonder if someone noticed the omission and told him to.

Team effort not recognized

It is clear that the contribution of black athletes on the team is either diminished or not recognized. When it was time to interview the other Canadian bobsled team which only had one black person on the team, the cameraman included all the team members in the video from beginning to end. There was no attempt to crop out the one black team member. Of course it would have been difficult to crop out the lone black member since he was in the center of the group.

I am alarmed at such apparent covert racism coming from Canada. Anyone watching could see what the cameraman was trying hard to exclude black faces from the video and this  has been the practice throughout this Olympics and previous ones. - blocking out images of black athletes.

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