“I like my black job”

The American athlete, who left the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 due to mental health problems, has made an impressive comeback, thus making visible the pressure that elite athletes are subjected to and becoming an example both on and off the track. At 27 years old, Simone Biles She left Paris with two gold medals in artistic gymnastics and celebrated the triumph with her parents and her husband, NFL star Jonathan Owens. This Friday, she also took advantage of her media coverage to send a message to Donald Trump: “I love my black job.”

This is how the Ohio native responded to a tweet by singer-songwriter Ricky Dávila, who wrote with irony “Simone Biles is the goat, she wins gold medals and dominates gymnastics, it’s her black job.”

We have to go back to last June, the 27th to be precise, to understand the ‘barb’ against Donald Trump. That day, the Republican candidate for the next presidential elections attacked Joe Biden’s immigration policy at a rally: “The fact is that their great slaughter among blacks is the millions of people who are allowed to enter through the border. Now they are accepting black jobs.” His words generated a great controversy and many detractors and journalists urged him to explain what exactly a “black job” was: “A black job is anyone who has a job,” Trump defended himself, without much success.

This is not Trump’s first public disdain for the African-American community. A few days ago, he also lashed out at his new political rival, Kamala Harris, mocking the color of her skin: “She was always of Indian descent and she was just promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was black, until a few years ago, when she became black.” He added: “She was Indian all the time, and then all of a sudden she took a turn and became a black person and I think someone should investigate that.”