Brazil-only world surf tour mooted after South American fury following shock loss.
The world surf tour was left teetering on the brink of being split into white and brown blocs yesterday after Brazilian surf fans reacted angrily to João Chianca, brown, losing to all-American hero Griffin Colapinto, white.
The heat surrounding Chianca losing to Colapinto in the round of 16 boiled over when three-time world champion Gabriel Medina, who refused a wildcard into the event citing “scheduling commitments”, posted:
GNT fucking complains, but if GNT doesn’t get the surfers together… so ima keep doing that.
Brazilian surf fans have long complained about racism bedevilling contest results. This despite Brazilians, including Gabriel Medina, Italo Ferreira and Filipe Toledo, winning five of the last six world titles, disproving you would think that notion.
Only two years ago, the WSL was left staggering over the Surf Ranch Pro PR disaster where three Brazilian world champs publicly lambasted the organisation for poor judging. It then became embroiled in a new contretemps after a surf fan posted his racist theory on Brazil’s recent dominance of the tour.
“Quick history lesson. When you take an oppressed racial minority and let them compete against rich, privileged, racist White people what happens? Hint: The White people lose every time. You can see this in the NBA, NFL, MLB, Boxing, Track and Field and now surfing. Except in surfing it’s Brazilians not Blacks. White people don’t have the hunger, the drive, the motivation and the anger that an oppressed minority has bottled up inside them. When you are given everything, you have nothing to gain. That is why whites can’t win and will never be great athletes.”
Ergo, the only way a White Devil is able to win is via the framework of a systemic racism.
Today, Brazilian surf fans were hard at work on their keyboards pushing the WSL’s comment count on the Chianca-Colapinto post into the thousands.
João sure beat that drum against Griffin. Made the hardest wave of all. But João’s loss wouldn’t have consequences and Griffin’s would so obviously the judges preferred to put an American in the Finals The only consolation is that Griffin in and Ethan Ewing out and that guy, despite surfing a lot, is not a complete surfer and is always super judged. Sweetie ended up being a victim of the WSL fork.
Life is a school and circumstances are the teachers.
I also thought that Marco Mignot turned the last wave against Jack on that drum
And not to mention Jack’s interference in Italo
I mean, the two finalists got there half pushed, despite having a lot of surfing
Or the darlings were pushed to the end.
A few non-Brazilians appeared in the comments, some for, some against. But interesting to note, unlike Brazilians, they don’t think has a bloc.
Speaking of blocs, does surfing need a browns-only tour where non-whites may surf freely and without the crack of the overseer’s whip?
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