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Below, Sailer quotes Mike Wise [Email him] of the Washington Post as saying
I will be here the next 10 days. And in that time, I will encounter no more than a dozen people of African American descent. They are the same ones I see over and over.
Speedskater Shani Davis, Lolo Jones and the U.S. women’s bobsled team, NBC correspondent Lewis Johnson and about three other black journalists …
This is Lolo Jones, with her hair in a braid:
Wise says ” people of African American descent” rather than black people.
Lolo Jones is of partially African-American ancestry (Wikipedia says Jones` father “spent most of her childhood in the Air Force and later in state prison” ) but if Wise didn`t already know that, I assume he`d put her down as one of the “whiter than Downton Abbey” crowd.
Here`s the U.S. women’s bobsled team, Jones is one of the paler members, second from the left.
Physically, Jones doesn`t look much differnt from other Winter Olympians, like US luger Kate Hansen, seen below warming up before an event.
