Ryan Lochte is a FRAUD.
This 32-year-old man and his gang of thugs stormed into a Brazilian gas station, took a piss on the floor, and broke the bathroom door.
After an armed security guard confronted the three thugs, Lochte and friends agreed to pay for the door, and stormed out. When approached by the press, Lochte told a different story.
"WE WERE ROBBED! THEY POINTED A GUN AT US!"
The press devoured Ryan's tall-tale and white America shared its unwanted assessment of Brazil and Latin America, painting the entire country/continent as filthy and with naturally violent people. This mechanism of white lies influencing public opinions is a dangerous thing. This is how racial stereotypes and oppressive white mentalities are formed. These lies include:
1.) "Don't go to that Black neighborhood because I knew a guy who knew a guy that got robbed! It's DANGEROUS!"
2.) "Dude, the women in Japan are so submissive! You can walk up to them on the street and do whatever you want!"
3.) "Chinese people eat dog and they try to hide it on the menu!"
4.) "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're rapists, and some, I assume, are good people."
These disgusting white lies -- often born of white racism, ignorance and cultural insensitivity -- stimulate white fear, which then produces REAL consequences for people of color. Latino families are deported, Muslim leaders murdered, Asian women sexually assaulted, and Black children shot in cold blood.
These tragic realities exist. These deportations and killings and cases of sexual assault actually happened in real life, to real people. Ryan Lochte's Brazilian robbery did not, and it's just another trick up white supremacy's sleeve.