In a Playboy interview, track and field star Malaika Mihambo talks about racism and her own experiences with it.
For long jump Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo, racism in society cannot be pinned down to individual events.
“I think it’s never about details here. There isn’t one experience that was particularly bad,” said the 29-year-old from Heidelberg in an interview with Playboy magazine and “It’s the sum of the microaggressions that you feel and change some.” Her father comes from the island of Zanzibar, which belongs to Tanzania, and her mother is German.
“You become insecure”
The experience does a lot with self-esteem. “You become insecure, you no longer feel free to be yourself. You have to learn to deal with it and put it down again,” explained Mihambo. “It takes a lot of energy and a lot of reflection work. It’s a shame that so many people have to experience it. Even today,” she said. You can also see how rough the tone in society is: “It would be important for people to think more about what words can do.”
The track and field athlete has to miss the start at the World Athletics Championships from August 19th to 27th in Budapest because of a thigh injury.
Source: Stern
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