These lovely ladies recently won the Amazing Race! They are sisters and sistahs. LaKisha and Jennifer Hoffman are the first pair of black women to win the reality show. Other black winners have been male and female pairs, who were also married couples; Chip and Kim won Season 5 and Uchenna & Joyce won Season 7.
The Hoffman sisters were both Division 1 athletes who played basketball at the University of Louisville, so they were athletically ready for this challenge. If you have ever watched the show before there have been other black women on the show who were not physically ready for all of the challenges and they were quickly eliminated. They are not new to the show, they actually appeared on season 14, but they were eliminated early because Jennifer did not know how to swim. Jennifer rose to the occasion and took swimming lessons. And when they re-appeared on The Amazing Race Season 18 they came out victorious. Major kudos to Jennifer because too many black women (in the US) do not know how to swim and are unwilling to learn.
Currently Jennifer Hoffman is an assistant basketball coach at U of L, and Lakisha Hoffman is a graduate student. And even more good news, Lakisha is an OUT lesbian, which makes her the first OUT black lesbian to win the Amazing Race. And besides Wanda Sykes, Sheryl Swoopes, and Felicia Snoop Pearson, she joins a very small group of black women that are fully out of the closet. So thanks for being out and proud. And thanks to both of you for showing the world that black women can do anything they put their minds to.
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