criticizing me, and it doesn’t really feel good," Douglas said at the conference. "It was a little bit hurtful."

Even though Douglas became (with Raisman) the first American gymnast to win three gold medals over two Olympics (prior to Biles’s vault finals win this weekend), it will apparently never be enough to convince her haters that America should be proud of her. And the way Douglas has been treated is a signal that there will always be people who are unable to handle it when black people, and black women specifically, achieve success.

The hostile double standard that Gabby Douglas faces

Earlier this past week, there was a narrative that Douglas, who has represented the United States in two Olympics and devoted her life to these teams, is an unpatriotic, badAmerican.

The gist: Douglas didn’t put her hand over her heart when the national anthem was played during Team USA’s medal ceremony, and is therefore a terrible representative of America.

Here’s the double standard.

When the anthem was played during Michael Phelps’s medal ceremony for his win in the 200-meter butterfly, someone chanted "O!" — a tradition in Baltimore that celebrates the Baltimore Orioles (Phelps was born in the city). He began laughing, cracking up on the podium. Yet no one has accused Phelps of hating America.

Phelps heard the "O" during the anthem pic.twitter.com/s11m18A2ni — Jameson Cokas (@jameson2111) August 10, 2016

Douglas and Phelps are two fantastic athletes who represent the United States. Both had different responses to the national anthem. Neither one was a show of disrespect or of some kind