Gwen Berry joked about rape, mocked Mexicans and Asians in old tweets

Years before Olympian Gwen Berry made headlines for turning away from the US flag as the National Anthem was played, calling it disrespectful to black Americans, she joked on Twitter about rape and made disparaging comments about Asians, Mexican and white people.

(Article by Jon Levine republished from NYPost.com)

Internet detectives unearthed a trove of controversial tweets from Berry, 32, some a decade old.

“This lil white boy being bad as hell!! I would smack his ass then stomp him!! Smh #whitepplKids hella disrespectful,” she said in 2011.

In others postings Berry mocked and made scornful comments about Asians and Mexicans.

“Just saw this gurl wearing heels with white socks!! What the Hell..#chineseppl always try to start new trends..smh..ggguuurrrllll,” she said in 2011.

“Mexicans just don’t care about ppl,” she said in November 2012.

Berry also made light of rape in a tweet from October 2012.

The tweets would have been posted long before Berry’s Olympic career and when she was in her early 20s.

“I’m about to rape my lunch,” she tweeted. “[Shout out] to all the females that’s gon get drunk, get recked by 4 dudes, then cry rape this weekend,” she added in another from the same year.

The tweets would have been posted long before Berry’s Olympic career and when she was in her early 20s.

Berry has moved to delete at least some of the postings after they were first unearthed.

Berry, 32, is a track and field athlete with a special talent for hammer throw. She made national headlines after qualifying for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics but pointedly turned away from the US flag as the National Anthem was played. Berry believes the song is “disrespectful” to black Americans.

She’s won gold medals at both the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima and the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival in Mexico City.

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