Cain Velasquez

See, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez sports a “BROWN PRIDE” tattoo across his chest. So fellow league member Ould recently asked via Twitter:

How offended would ppl be if I wore a sports bra that said ‘white pride’ during one of my fights “€“ or even a tattoo?

Of course, Ould was roundly denounced as a “white supremacist” (a particularly bizarre accusation, since her children are “‘mixed-race’ with a Latino father”).

Refreshingly, and appropriately considering her professional training, Ould didn’t back down, Tweeting a series of sensible replies such as:

If things such as these were never asked or challenged we would never grow as a species or civilization.

(So I’d like to contribute to this civilizational growth by asking: What do “brown” people have to be “proud” of, anyhow? Lowriders? Those freaky bowler hats? Freddie Prinze”€”Sr. or Jr.?)

Meanwhile, the same UFC president who’s repeatedly defended Velasquez’s tattoo rushed to describe Ould as a “redneck, hillbilly, country bumpkin.” Oh, and the president’s name is Dana White. That part just struck me funny.

Then, because she dared to reproduce with a Hispanic, the “white supremacist” website Stormfront denounced Ould as a “race traitor.” There’s no pleasing some people.

Not long ago, average Joes could enjoy a reprieve from “sensitivity training” and political correctness by tuning in to macho, old-school professional sports or even newfangled, slightly dubious ones such as wrestling or MMA.

So much for that. NFL players now wear pink during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The moral panic regarding brain injuries and player suicides might even kill off football altogether in some not-so-distant future.

Back in the UFC, a German fighter was kicked out for having “racist” friends, while another white player was denounced for wearing a Japanese “rising sun” symbol”€”by a Korean, who says that for his people, that’s the equivalent of a swastika. And that dude calls himself “the Korean Zombie,” and his symbol is a creepy cartoon of, well, a Korean zombie (killed by Japs?), but whatever.

All I know is, if the world really needs champions of “white pride,” and that’s debatable, Michelle Ould beats Craig Cobb any day. Literally.