Naomi Osaka's mother is Haitian and Black, another reason why race may not be the most important thing here. Venus Williams is dating an heir to the Annenberg fortune, and her sister married an Armenian-American Internet millionaire, more indications that it may not all be about race.
People love to turn sporting events into battles between races: Magic Johnson versus Larry Bird, Bob Gibson versus Denny McLain, Joe Louis versus Max Schmeling, Jack Johnson versus Jim Jeffries.
Sportswriters see the same dynamic in contests between athletes of the same race: Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston, going back to Jack Dempsey versus Gene Tunney (two Irish-Americans).
Usually one competitor is seen as polished, refined, well-mannered or well-educated, and the other is tough and from the streets, either a brute or a devilish trickster. People like to set up those kinds of rivalries, whether or not they make race a factor in them.
McEnroe and Borg, Federer and Nadal had some brutal rivalries, and race wasn't involved. The president has pardoned Jack Johnson, so maybe it's time to back away from interpreting everything as a racial confrontation.
McEnroe and Borg, Federer and Nadal had some brutal rivalries, and race wasn’t involved.>>>>>>>>>>>>
Oh, but that was when we did not have a nationalist-socialist movement bent of the destruction of America’s cherished institution because of racial/ethnic nationalism. Now the social context is very different from the era you continue to cling to. Those days are over.
Now Black Lives Matter, Aintifa, Al Sharpton, Louis Farakan and others have invented and pursued race mongering to put a racist chill on our institutions, including football and tennis, and so they can have theirs right back at them.Its the same with the sore loser left. Tantrums based on supposed nationalist racial or ethnic superiority, as advocated by Rev. Ralph Wright to Zero when he was in Wrights congregation for 20 years need to be called out at every opportunity, and ridiculed.
Maybe you can make up rap song about it?
Serena Regina , now out da door,
She played her tennis like a dirty street .....
Well you get the idea.
If Ms. Williams cannot simply be who American who represent the country nobly, after all it made her very wealthy, then let her be ridiculed with both barrels for biting the hand that fed her.