Stephen A. Smith Disagrees With Serena Williams Sexism Claims During US Open [EXCLUSIVE]

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1. #SerenaWilliams does not look like this.
(Serena is beautiful)

2. @SerenaWilliams did not act like this.
(Serena stood up for herself)

3. @Naomi_Osaka_ does not look like this.
(Naomi is not blonde or white)

This is the most racist and sexist cartoon that I have ever seen. https://t.co/qlIi59rAL8

— Ryan Knight ☭ (@ProudSocialist) September 10, 2018

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Well done on reducing one of the greatest sportswomen alive to racist and sexist tropes and turning a second great sportswoman into a faceless prop. https://t.co/YOxVMuTXEC

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 10, 2018

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This is Jim Crow-racist. He Sambo’d Serena Williams. I’m a bit surprised that @Knightcartoons didn’t include a watermelon. For those unfamiliar with the history invoked here, read about the coon caricature. https://t.co/ffmrk76MRM

— Jamil Smith جميل كريم (@JamilSmith) September 10, 2018

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Two excellent questions to ask yourself before pontificating on the Serena Williams situation and insisting that race & gender had nothing to do with it are:

1.) Am I white?
2.) Am I male?

If you answered "Yes," please avail yourself of this golden opportunity to be quiet.

— Jon Zal (@jon_zal) September 10, 2018

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Damn. My city's 'Herald Sun' newspaper published more vile, racist trash today.
For juxtaposition, here's an image from the end of the actual match.#SerenaWilliams #NaomiOsaka. pic.twitter.com/fhnwcRin0E

— Tom Taylor (@TomTaylorMade) September 10, 2018

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Whatever you think of the Serena Williams situation, I think we can all agree that this cartoon is disgusting. Erasing Naomi Osaka’s blackness alongside a grossly racialised caricature of Serena, invoking racist stereotypes, is obscene. https://t.co/Z09T7rt5tt

— Anna Kessel (@Anna_Kessel) September 10, 2018

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Irrespective of whether you think she was in the wrong, this cartoon’s response & it’s embrace of lazy, racist stereotyping (not to mention the whitewashing of Naomi Osaka & the judge) highlights the issues that #SerenaWilliams perennially faces: racism & misogynoir. https://t.co/PjoQK5vHdC

— Andy Duncan (@DynamiteDuncan) September 10, 2018

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Instead of sharing that awful comic, send a note to US Open officials about the treatment @serenawilliams received during the final https://t.co/HVtpD1TL2A
I've received the standard "we'll pass it along" email but maybe thousands of messages will get some attention pic.twitter.com/ZtuEvE1pCa

— Andrea Morgan (@AndreaDMorgan) September 10, 2018

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Why do we object to the Serena Williams cartoon charicature?

Because dehumanizing African Americans is a time honored tool to hinder equality in America through “humor.”

Thread #TriggerWarning #SerenaWilliams https://t.co/beGSeOnW9b pic.twitter.com/js0HPbECSM

— Jillian Hurley (@BeautyBind) September 10, 2018

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I won't reproduce that disgusting, antiblack Serena Williams cartoon, but it's notable the artist chose to give Osaka blonde hair, as if to play up her innocence (and erase her Blackness) in opposition to an "angry" dark-skinned Black woman

— mtp (@tsengputterman) September 10, 2018

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A cartoon in The Herald Sun (an Australian news paper) depicts Serena Williams as a giant baby with a huge nose and lips, and Naomi Osaka as a blonde white girl. Y'all are really telling on yourselves, huh? pic.twitter.com/hweOX2M9ZP

— manny (@mannyfidel) September 10, 2018

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That serena cartoon legit looks like something out of an 1870s racist southern newspaper

— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) September 10, 2018