The reigning Olympic champion and record holder over 100 and 200 meters dash, dubbed as the world’s fastest man, sprinter Usain Bolt, 25, has come in for criticism from fellow black Jamaicans unhappy that he has chosen ‘a white partner,’ the Mail said.
Bolt, who has earned the reputation as a ‘ladies’ man,’ previously linked to British waitress Rebeckah Passley and Jamaican reality TV star Taneish ‘Lava’ Simpson, has now chosen for his latest girlfriend 28-year-old Slovakian-born fashion designer Lubica Slovak, and the relationship was described by friends as ‘very serious.’
The couple began dating ‘quietly’ in mid-November, making sure they were not seen together at functions and spent most evenings at Bolt’s home in a suburb of Kingston, but when a picture of them was published in the Jamaican Observer last month, online posting became filled with protests.
One said ‘Really now Usain! Some successful black men obviously suffer from a white woman complex. You too?’
The next said ‘Out of all the girls on this island you pick a snowbunny.’
Another complained ‘Another one of our men snatched.’
And another ‘These superstars will always disappoint if we depend on them to raise our racial identity.’
One reader of The Observer said ‘They make he mingle with white girls. She just divorce him and take aways his money.’
And another added ‘I hope when he’s ready to settle down he chooses a beautiful Jamaican black woman ... In the meantime have fun “responsibly”, cause some “pretty girls” just a wait if “lock u down” for the wrong reasons.’
But a friend defended the couple saying ‘Usain is a young man at the top of his game and did date a few women, but he has settled down now with Lubica. It works because they are both successful and focused. She focuses on her designs, he focuses on his sport. There is no stress in this relationship. She is a calm, very nice, industrious, busy woman. She has her own life so she isn’t demanding.’
