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Surfing for “Something Positive”: Black Girls Surf and the Rising Tide of Equal Representation
“Has society changed with black women surfing? Of course. Are we excited about it? Oh, more than you know.” – J.D. Simkins – July 16, 2020 | Updated July 19, 2020
Rhonda Harper was still relatively new to the surfing scene in 1987 when, as she left the beach in California’s historic Santa Cruz, she returned to find the words “Go home n—–” written across her car in wax.
The message was clear, and it supplied a rude awakening for one who had spent her teenage years basking in the sun on the pristine beaches of Hawaii’s North Shore, where Harper says she “never … More
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