You get a lie! You get a lie! Everybody gets a lie!

Held at gunpoint by private security guards demanding money, wow, what a story. If Ryan Lochte wasn’t a star Olympic gold medalist I would suggest he become an Author since he (and lesser famous teammates), can over exaggerate a story and have the world believe it is true. That’s a talent, and that’s not even the best part of the story! No, No, No, the best part is seeing the reactions of the Olympic gold medalist, once the truth came out. Personally, I have no hard feelings towards the endorsers, they did the right thing by cutting his endorsements off. Those selected individuals who are coming to their defense telling others to give these “kids” a break because “Sometimes you take actions that you later regret,” are the ones that I have a problem with! The human superpower known as white privilege, sums this situation up pretty nicely. It truly amazes me how an individual, an “Olympic gold medalist”, can lie to Rio, to their mother and their own country and still be a hero in certain people’s eyes. These are the very same people who only a week prior, were criticizing Gabby Douglas for not putting her hand over her heart, during the National Anthem! Even then, criticized is too weak of a word to describe the kind of treatment she received. She has literally been called every name under the sun, and has been labeled, judged and ridiculed for her hair, mainly from the black community. It is very sad when most of us cannot even preform a cartwheel, yet we get the audacity to jump quickly on social media to speak out of spite, about a young African American female representing the United States of America. Not to mention, who went to represent your country despite the chaos going during the time (just in case you didn’t pick that up I’m talking about racial issues). I would kill to see everyone on social media, who has ever said anything negative about Gabby, post their own Olympic videos doing HALF of what she does with their hair laid and after that do an Olympic gold medal count. Don’t worry I’ll wait. Her age is actually close enough to be considered a child but 32 is not! I understand where the disappointment comes from because swimming is one of my favorite sports to watch during the Olympics, but never would I make excuses for grown men damaging property and lying to multiple countries. Fleeing Rio the next day before the charges could hit or his passport being taken, just makes the story seem pretty skeptical to begin with. Unfortunately, even after all this, Lochte still manages to land an enforcement with Pine Bros Softish Throat Drops because according to Pine Bros Chief Executive Rider McDowell “We all make mistakes, but they’re rarely given front page scrutiny,”. Unbelievable! If that’s not white privilege at its finest I don’t know what is. Imagine being a person of color and being in the same situation. No, you couldn’t imagine such a thing because that’s where double standards come into play and the consequences of vandalism and lying to this country are so threatening to a person of color that you wouldn’t even dream of doing such a thing. Let’s do away with the double standards people. Everyone should be held accountable for his or her actions no matter race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation or level of mediocrity.