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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: theking on May 01, 2023, 10:21:52 PM
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Black cowgirls gallop on in face of US rodeo stereotypes
Guiding her brown mare around the arena at breakneck speed, 16-year-old Morissa Hall is extremely focused as she takes on the barrel racing course in the eastern US state of Maryland. The African American cowgirl deftly zig-zags around three barrels, showing off why she is considered — against the sport’s stereotypical whiteness and masculinity — a rising rodeo star. “When I very first started, people used to stare at me because I was one of the only few cowgirls of colour,” Hall told AFP at the event, in which about 70 people are competing.
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I took a photo of this Black Cowgirl:
(https://i.imgur.com/SS0i2IO.jpg)