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发帖数: 4796 | 1 做黑女人很难吗？
也许吧。
但是这样就有理由在球场上那样表现吗？
那样指着裁判鼻子骂就能换来尊重吗？
Serena Williams and the Burdens of Being a Black Woman [OPINION]
Twenty-four years ago, on a crisp Halloween evening in Oakland, California,
Venus Williams, 14, made her professional debut at the Bank of the West
Classic. The phenom-in-training was wearing unbranded clothing, plastic
beads on her cornrows and was beaming with the kind of confidence that
helped her extend Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, then the №.2 player in the world
, to three sets.
Sitting atop a bench in the player’s lounge, watching everyone jockeying
for a spot in her sister’s orbit, was 12-year-old Serena Williams. She, too
, was sporting beaded cornrows, and even though she was scowling, you
somehow felt that she wasn’t the kind of kid you wanted to mess with.
Sometimes, even on Halloween, you don’t feel like wearing a mask —
especially if you’re getting a little impatient awaiting your turn.
At the time, most of the assembled tennis beat writers would never have
guessed that Serena’s game would eventually eclipse that of her big sister
’s. A little birdie, however, gave me a hint as to what was to come.
Richard Williams, the father and coach of these two young girls who
collectively would help make women’s tennis more relevant than it had ever
been, pulled me aside and said:
“She’s going to be the one. She’s got that killer instinct.”
I looked back at Serena, who was still scowling, and nodded my head.
Since Richard’s prophecy that night, Serena has gone on to win 23 Grand
Slam titles and is widely considered to be the greatest female athlete of
all time. Some folks prefer to call her the “greatest,” without the gender
identifier.
The road to becoming the best, however, has often been paved with adversity.
In 2001, Serena and Venus had to endure the taunts of racist fans in Indian
Wells, California, who called them niggers. Also, they’ve had to rise above
the rumors regarding their “unnatural physicality” — especially after
they became the two top players on the WTA tour, and Serena, especially, has
had to pack the hopes, dreams and expectations of an entire race in her
racket bag because the emotional wellbeing of her Black fans often hinges on
the outcome of her matches. And, there was all that noise about players
finding their clacking beads distracting.
That’s a lot of baggage.
Up until Saturday afternoon’s U.S. Open women’s final, Serena had done a
pretty good job of shouldering that load. But it all became too heavy when
the masks came off.
When you’re down a set in a Grand Slam final, and a spunky 20-year-old is
standing between you and history, it’s totally natural to be a tad unnerved
. Then, after fighting to get back in the match and you’re down a break in
the second, you miss a return and take it out on your racket. The chair
umpire gives you a point penalty for racket abuse and then adds a code
violation for verbal abuse after accusing your coach of making illegal hand
signals from the player’s box.
Now that’s what you call a grand slam.
But it wasn’t until Carlos Ramos, the chair umpire, took a game away from
Serena after a series of confrontations, and his mask came off. Normally, a
frustrated player would have gotten a warning after demolishing a racket, so
the latter call was not only disrespectful to one of the sport’s top
players, but it helped fuel speculation that gender bias—and perhaps a few
other biases — were at play outside the lines.
More important, those calls adversely impacted the results of this historic
matchup between two players with an abundance of pigment in their skin. It
ruined everyone’s day.
Serena’s opponent in this now controversial match was Naomi Osaka, a
biracial player from Japan competing in her first Grand Slam final. She was
the first Japanese woman to make it this far at the Open. For Serena, it was
all about tying Margaret Court’s long-standing record of 24 Grand Slam
title wins.
So, given everything that was at stake, and everything she’s been through
this year since returning to the court after her daughter’s birth, it’s
absolutely understandable and acceptable that Serena would lose her cool.
But no one is really taking the deeper dive to determine why.
It wasn’t about losing. Osaka outplayed Serena on almost every point and,
Alexis’ mother was well aware that Saturday was just not her day. That said
, however, had Ramos not assessed her the point and game penalties during
that pivotal second set, the Serena we all know and love might have staged
another one of her legendary comebacks.
Or maybe not.
Accompanying those questionable penalties, however, were the attacks on
Serena’s integrity as a player, a woman, a mother and a champion. She was
right to call Ramos a “thief.” He striped Serena of her pride and dignity.
She was robbed.
In that moment, it’s very likely that the horrific memories of Indian Wells
came rushing back. As did the excessive random drug tests she’s had to
endure throughout her career because some people can’t handle the truth
that she truly is a naturally gifted superior athlete. And, she probably
thought about all the other unpleasant things that have happened to her and
her sister when they were younger, more gifted and undeniably Black. All
these memories probably hit her with the force of a tropical hurricane
because in that moment, when the masks were being removed, she was reminded
that in 2018, maybe her best just hasn’t been good enough to rise above
gender and race.
That’s enough to make you want to holler.
Serena’s critics will claim she took it too far on Saturday. I think not.
As a six-time U.S. Open singles champion she deserved more respect. And for
those who were unable to understand where she was coming from, catch this.
She was the one who diffused the situation when fans were booing Osaka
during the trophy presentation. She was the one, through her tears,
applauding her opponent for her stellar play. Yep, the little girl from
Compton with the killer instinct got the crowd to take off their pissy masks
and reclaim their decorum.
Now that Serena has had some time to process what went down in Flushing
Meadow last weekend, there’s no doubt that she’ll fight back. She always
does. Her next battle, however, will be against even tougher opponents as
she attempts to unmask an institution whose biases might have kept one woman
from reaching her goal and another from enjoying a well-earned victory.
By USC Annenberg professor @MikiTurner | W*****B
发帖数: 4796 | | w***u
发帖数: 17713 | | q****5
发帖数: 1660 | | w***u
发帖数: 17713 | | s*****r
发帖数: 11545 | 6 在性生活方面跟小黄人WSN一个难度，不过就业求学等方面与猥琐男是天壤之别。 | W*****B
发帖数: 4796 | 7 黑女也性压抑？
：在性生活方面跟小黄人WSN一个难度，不过就业求学等方面与猥琐男是天壤之别。
【在 s*****r 的大作中提到】
: 在性生活方面跟小黄人WSN一个难度，不过就业求学等方面与猥琐男是天壤之别。
| s*****r
发帖数: 11545 | 8 大部分黑男都是白妞疯，而且不少在监狱，有自由身的人很多是花心大萝卜，你说苦不
苦？ | w***u
发帖数: 17713 | 9 相当的压抑，女人一般都想marry up，白南亚男愿意去黑女的很少，好黑男都外F了，
最要命的是，适龄黑男都被白人种族主义分子送进监狱了。黑人是女/男教育程度差拉
得最大的群体，大学黑女只能找小偷小摸贩毒黑男。
【在 W*****B 的大作中提到】
: 黑女也性压抑？
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: ：在性生活方面跟小黄人WSN一个难度，不过就业求学等方面与猥琐男是天壤之别。
| b*******t
发帖数: 4756 | 10 其实不是，现在哪个敢对黄男轻视的，白人都不敢，中日韩在那里，黄男非常牛逼的。
所谓的歧视都是惯性，很多偷渡来的，还是老思维。
小威这个，十足的表现出了现在美国黑人的素质之低，超出一般人的想象。你可以想想
你在美国的不快，我敢保证99%都是黑人干的，素质实在差劲。
而且奥巴马的当选，不但没有提高黑人素质，反倒让他们觉得越无赖就会有便宜赚。
你不信换个人，绝对禁赛了。
: 美国被歧视最厉害的是黄男吧。
【在 w***u 的大作中提到】
: 相当的压抑，女人一般都想marry up，白南亚男愿意去黑女的很少，好黑男都外F了，
: 最要命的是，适龄黑男都被白人种族主义分子送进监狱了。黑人是女/男教育程度差拉
: 得最大的群体，大学黑女只能找小偷小摸贩毒黑男。
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