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Cartoon in an Australian newspaper is called 'racist' for the way it depicted Serena Williams during US Open final.


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2018 Sep 11, 3:59am   2,600 views  11 comments

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A cartoon depicting Serena Williams has triggered uproar after it was compared to racist illustrations of the Jim Crow character and images of black people in the Sambo books from the early 20th century.

Published in Rupert Murdoch's Herald Sun tabloid newspaper, the cartoon depicted the tennis star as overweight, big lipped and bushy haired, stomping on her tennis racket at the US Open final against Naomi Osaka on Saturday.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/twitter-users-slam-repugnant-racist-cartoon-serena-williams-180911083536048.html


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1   Patrick   2018 Sep 11, 7:30am  

Well, she does look quite a bit like that. Is reality racist?

2   joshuatrio   2018 Sep 11, 7:32am  

Patrick, your image is a spitting image of the cartoon.
3   Strategist   2018 Sep 11, 9:19am  

Funny cartoon. I think it is a little bit racist.
5   MisterLefty   2018 Sep 11, 9:26am  

Liberals are basically saying that you cannot treat black people like white people, i.e., you cannot create a caricature of a black celebrity, Serena, like you can of a white celebrity, like Donald Trump.
6   Bd6r   2018 Sep 11, 10:26am  

Patrick says
Is reality racist

Yes it is. Reality also is sexist and transphobic.
7   Bd6r   2018 Sep 11, 10:29am  

FortWayne says
So all those Trump caricatures are also racist?

No. Trump is a Fucking White Male. All bad things about them are true. If you say anything bad about a minority or womyn, even if it is true, you are a racist, sexist, homphobe, misogynist, and need to report to PC-schwitz for education.
8   NuttBoxer   2018 Sep 11, 11:21am  

So depicting black people as whiny babies is racist?
9   Bd6r   2018 Sep 11, 12:07pm  

NuttBoxer says
So depicting black people as whiny babies is racist?

And ageist as well.
10   RWSGFY   2018 Sep 11, 2:06pm  

Time to retire, Serena. Just go away already.
11   Eman   2018 Sep 11, 4:00pm  

DASKAA says
Time to retire, Serena. Just go away already.


I don't think it's going to happen. She's a competitor and is going for the record. She has a good chance of getting there and even surpass 24th Grand Slam wins. It's unfortunate she acted the way she did and ruined Osaka's first Grand Slam victory. The fans sucked too for booing Osaka.

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