RSSRacism and Serena Williams
Gene Lalor | October 26, 2009
Racism is an ugly word and a word very often unjustly applied.
Professional hate mongers and race baiters, like the Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, toss the term around as if they’re playing volleyball, unmindful of the lesson behind the Aesop fable of the shepherd boy who cried wolf.
The townspeople eventually get fed up with the boy’s lying and refused to come to his aid when a true threat came on the scene, a nasty, hungry, real wolf.
Aesop’s readers learn the moral that, “Even when liars tell the truth, they are never believed. The liar will lie once, twice, and then perish when he tells the truth.”
So, too, will reasonable people come to realize those reverends are money-grubbing, racist charlatans whose repetitive cries of racism have as much substance as the shepherd boy’s “Wolf!” lies.
Which brings us to the less than serene sports star, Serena Williams.
The tennis amazon blossomed into a foul-mouthed, threatening harridan at the U.S. Open last September leading some to believe the dad-proclaimed greatest tennis player in the history of tennis had erupted as much out of frustration as out of her vile personality and character: http://bit.ly/3V7F01.
Serena recovered, even if the line judge who was the target of her F-bomb-filled, murderous invective hasn’t.
Serena moved on down the road to exhibiting her prodigious bod on ESPN Magazine’s “body issue” cover: 
As a result of her tirade and exhibiting her well-oiled figure for all the world to see, Serena may not be welcome at the upcoming Australia Open next February: http://bit.ly/11Z3t.
If she is disinvited, no doubt the ugliness of the charges that she and her sister, Venus, are the objects of sexist and racist discrimination will be resurrected. (See http://bit.ly/10v1I0)
Issues as to Serena’s intemperate conduct and public nudity will then be shuffled to the back of the bus, supplanted by the sexist/racist card.
Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter are American sports icons, liked as much for their demeanors as for their respective prowess on the golf links and on the baseball diamond.
No racism there.
One particularly venomous, racist rant appeared on Bukisa.com where the unidentified writer heaped praise upon Serena and Venus while dissing their opponents and castigating the media for a “whiteness” preference.
This is classic: “There appears to be a double standard and hypocrisy by white female tennis commentators. White women have historically encountered gender oppression as women they can be excluded or not criticized for their racism. [sic] Racism is not always overt racism can also be covert. [sic]
“The white female tennis commentators are careful not to utter any racial slurs against the Williams Sisters.
“However, the ‘covert racism’ is when the white women constantly criticize Venus and Serena for everything. It appears no matter how hard the Williams Sisters achieve [sic] . . . some whites have a problem with two young black women dominating a white sport.”
Talk about racial paranoia!
I don’t recall any racial comments, pro or con, surrounding Black tennis greats, Arthur Ashe and Althea Gibson, but this is the Age of Jesse and Al.
Could it be that, just perhaps, the Williams sisters are not nearly as likable and are considered un-attractive to many people, and the issue of racism is irrelevant?
Black, White, or Purple, maybe sports enthusiasts prefer Maria Sharapova 
because she has no racial agenda, no foul mouth, is ideal eye candy, and keeps most of her clothes on?
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