You must not have followed the Williams sisters over the years or you would know that these two women have had to put up with some very real visceral hate from racist tennis fans as they were wiping legions of prissy white girls off the court. They’ve shown nothing but class through it all, and frankly, they’ve put up with a lot of shit they never should have had to put up with.

Serena’s Blackness was and still is a problem for a lot of people and it’s sad that Serena herself seems to have forgotten that.

    Christopher S. Freeman

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