Posted on 05/08/2003 8:42:21 AM PDT by Jakarta ex-pat
In an interview with the French magazine L'Equipe on Saturday, Richard Williams blasted the tennis world for racism and claimed no one will ever defeat his daughters, Serena and Venus.
Williams addressed critics who say that his daughters appearing in every final is making tennis boring.
"So women's tennis is getting boring. And you know why? Because two lovely black women dominate it. They're better than the white girls, and that's intolerable. It's downgrading, lamentable," Williams said.
Williams said his daughters were the victims of racist prejudice from within the tennis world.
"They're disturbed by our being there. They've tried everything they could to tame us, to recuperate (sic) us and, when they couldn't, they said I was a madman."
Williams also said he will never salute the flag because of racism in America.
"It has no meaning for me," he said.
Williams added that his daughters were dominating the game because they had stolen the best shots from their rivals.
"The whites have always said that black people were robbers. My daughters are robbers. They're going to rob you of your best shot and make it our best shot. My daughters are the best two robbers in the world."
Okay, thanks, Catspaw. I'll look for that, and also do a search.
I'll give him this, I've heard plenty of tennis afficianados complain that their domination of the sport is making the game boring. I couldn't tell you what the political affiliation of these whiners is, but I can tell you that they're all white. I would say, I think it's less because they're black, than it is that there are TWO of them.
You know, Martina has complained that these two spend too much time on "other" interests rather than just tennis. One of them is designing a clothing line, the other is pursuing acting. It is amazing that they are able to do so much.
Where did you meet them?
"I've heard plenty of tennis afficianados complain that their domination of the sport is making the game boring. I couldn't tell you what the political affiliation of these whiners is, but I can tell you that they're all white."
Not a surprise to me, I'd guess that most tennis aficionados are white.
(1) merry10, I don't agree with you "Serena probably inadvertantly sitting on the flag", but I'd go along with possibly, if it can be proved that Serena has diminished mental and visual capacity. Serena Williams is a finely tuned gifted athlete with excellent vision and capable of hitting tennis balls rocketing towards her at high speeds. You're asking that people believe Serena Williams "probably inadvertantly" sat on the flag for several different photographs and stood there not noticing the flags dragging on the ground while a series of at least 10 photographs, if not twice or three times that many, were snapped by just one photographer of several present.
(2) Excellent point about the tattered flags on cars. The people that do this make me gag. Any idiot can wave the flag, wrap herself or himself in the flag or sit on it as Serena did, but few people take the time to learn and understand the history and traditions in the care of and display of the U.S. flag. I don't know about your "we" part, but I've mentioned this to more than a few people, all strangers, none of them celebrities as far as I know. If just one celebrity could be nailed to the idiot wall on network television news for driving a car with a tattered flag in the breeze, other people doing it might take notice.
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