performance-enhancing drug as we know. but the olympics does care about the health of the athlete and they also care about the image of the olympics. here is where i would move away from that. i do think that because of not just the state that she was an aunt that you have more than a dozen states in this country and you have almost ten countries that are in the olympic set of legalized marijuana rather it s for recreational, or medical purposes. maybe they are out of touch with it at but i do not think it s racist. i do think that the swim cap is discriminatory towards people of color and toward african-americans. that doesn t bother me and that does seem racist wear them marijuana does not. julie: we re going to move on and we have other stuff to talk about. just ahead, the statue of liberty is a national treasure and a symbol of freedom and
her olympic cannabis ban and she says, carly, that i m not one of them. but she s also not the pursed imperfect athlete to test positive for drug use. but do you think there s too much hype for testing on para vana that we all know is legal in many states? carly: i know that her unfortunate ban does not have to do with racism. aoc is not the only one who is making that argument. the headline said that the olympics do not want black woman to win and they cited shikari richards an end other black women who were disqualified because they had testosterone levels that were too high. in 2009, i believe it was, michael phelps was suspended for three months and he lost his kellogg sponsorship because he was photographed with marijuana. there s nothing white athlete, shelly houlihan, was
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she s piggybacking off of that. it s unfortunate that everything has to be about race. not everything is about race and if you re obsessed with race, may be where the race has. let s move on and have a bigger and brighter discussion that if we want to talk about cannabis on the rules, that the discussion to be had. this is not racism at play. julie: leslie, any athlete knows liberals going into the olympic trials that you cannot be doing drugs whether it marijuana or steroids whether you be white or black. weirdos race where does the race card play in here? do you believe that this has to do with race or is it an unfortunate circumstance where you talk about a black athlete who tested positive for marijuana? leslie: i do not think it was racist. if she was white, the same punishment would be imposed and the olympics give a few reasons why. michael phelps is a great example. marijuana is not a