Another day, Same old B.S., ...

[1StrongBlackMan]

World Tennis Association official refers to Serena and her older sister as "the Williams Brothers" and then when called on it, he was only joking ... but remains unrepentant.

http://thegrio.com/2014/10/20/serena-williams-rips-russian-tennis-chief-for-offensive-comments/

[heaven05]

1. and

day by day, this type of overt hate is becoming more the standard than not. They aren't the right color for that genteel sport of kings and queens. It gets infuriating really.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. I hope not

I hope this isn't a total loop back to the 1920's.

And I'm kind of hiding this in this thread - in your response for a reason.


If this op had been posted in GD - maybe it was but the search function with her name as the keywords has been timing out for 20 minutes . . .

And posted by 1Strong

It would have been inundated with excuses and reasons why it was okay, he didn't really mean it, she shouldn't be so sensitive and a barrage of nonsense about how "I've been picked on too."

And the entire point - a black woman who excels at what she does is denigrated as an animal like creature (Oh they wish they were in the land of cotton) and that's okay because heeeeeeeeeeey -

It's a Russian and the are just filled with awesome sauce and well - she's a Millionaire American.

Who earned her money through sweat and pain - but I digress . . .

[heaven05]

3. +1000

I have had my eyes opened about some who call themselves 'progressives and liberals', on this site, every since Trayvon Martin was murdered by the zimpg.

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. Well ... Let's see! eom.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. It was pretty much ignored

No?

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. Of course!