The breakout star of the Netflix show's second season speaks on her terminated contract with Rebel Athletic and the uphill battle Black cheerleaders face.
on Instagram in Wooten’s defense, calling her a “Black Queen” and commenting on Wooten’s post that “Rebel has been fake.”
she never could’ve anticipated the restrictive expectations that would be placed on her as a role model for young cheerleaders—a position she didn’t ask for in the first place.“There was a double standard… [white athletes] can act almost the same as I did, and they aren’t being ridiculed,” she said. “They don’t have to deal with what I’m dealing with, and for what? I don’t know.”, Wooten said she’s “not upset about that, at all.
While all of this, supposedly, was over a few cuss words, Wooten wouldn’t take back a single word she uttered on the show, which she points out was never for a young audience. Competitive collegiate cheerleaders are elite athletes and world class tumblers, after all. The rivalries are intense, and so are the tensions; therefore, locker room language, the kind
in a room with a bunch of adrenaline-pumped twenty-somethings. Wooten is not here to “appease your mother.”“You don’t see anybody making this a big deal in other sports, especially male dominated sports,” she said. “Just because I’m a cheerleader does not mean I need to act like the pageant girl who just walks around looking pretty.
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