this should

[heaven05]

quiet the oh so sophisticated, sniffling Serena haters, but probably not.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/10/serena-williams-wta-us-open-sexism-carlos-ramos

Ramos???? Why? Carlos had to cheat for Osaka? I am sorry this cloud is over her win, but oh well, Ramos did it. A sexist, probably racist idiot with a little trump power squirming through his little squirrely brain, probably. And that black woman having the nerve to angrily question his calls? God forbid.

[DonCoquixote]

1. it won't

I got pilloried for saying the same thing, with a lot of, sorry to say it the people that inspired the term "wypipo" getting all in my case. Serena is a threat to the tennis establishment, where someone like Anna Kournekova can be loauded because she has the Aryan looks. The types that like to think they could be in the country club got MAD.

and I also get yelled at because Osaka "was black."

Let me say this, She is Japanese. If she was raised in America, she would be called the "N" word. Granted, being of mixed race in Japan, a culture that does not even consider Chinese or Koreans worthy, was probably NOT easy, but she did not have to live in a culture where the default setting for any black or brown person was "hate them, kill them, take their ideas and money and say you deserve credit."

[heaven05]

2. I am

not surprised by the vitriol here. Always happens when white sensibilities are offended by an 'angry black person'. Basically, it scares the shit out of people. Yeah, I got a snide one commenting on Osaka's mixed race. I just gave them the degrees of racism truth. They shut up. Serena has been vindicated so their faux outrage has become moot. A constant reminder to me in situations like this is of the deeply held racial fear and HATE so many people have of AA, EVERYWHERE.

Yet with this idiot potus enabling and encouraging the racist hate, the chickens have come home to roost. And in that same amerika the clock for confrontation, madness and chaos by wypipo is going tick toc, tick toc and they will be surprised when they find out they truly are outnumbered and can be matched hate for hate.

[GeoWilliam750]

3. Naomi Osaka was born in Japan and lived the first three years of her life in Osaka

The rest of her life has been in the United States. She does not even speak much Japanese, although can understand some.

An odd thing happens with cross-culture kids - they have almost no "us". She apparently is not considered sufficiently black to be accepted as black. She is apparently not sufficiently Japanese to be accepted as Japanese. She has been viewed as an outsider by nearly everyone in her 20 short years.

Every group that should welcome her as "us", instead calls her, "them" - including her own mother's family. Apparently, other than her father's family (and possibly some of the Haitian community), her mother, and her sister, she has had no "us", although now that she is rich and famous and successful, more people will view her as, "us".

I cannot imagine how bitter the taste must be.

[DonCoquixote]

4. sorry to say sir, but as a Puerto Rican

i.e. someone with a country that is not independent, but not really accepted as an American (as Trump showed), I can say there are many who know that flavor of bitterness, but it is not as bitter as being in a country that was for the most part, built around the hate of one group.