The Whitewashing Of Naomi Osaka

blackascoal said:
Post a picture of your wife for contrast.
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number 1 I don't have a wife, and even If I had an ugly wife, that wouldn't disprove my statement. you really are retarded, aren't you? Me having an ugly wife and serena williams being ugly aren't mutually exclusive things. idiot.
 
blackascoal said:
The U.S. Open tennis champion’s biracial identity is inconvenient in a racist narrative that turns Serena Williams into a stereotype.

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They don’t know what to do with Naomi Osaka.

In a cartoon he drew for Australia’s Herald Sun on Sept. 10, illustrator Mark Knight depicts Serena Williams during the finals match at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships. It’s a classic racist caricature: Williams appears as a hulk-like figure with unkempt hair and large lips reminiscent of the minstrel or the mammy.

Behind Williams is her competitor, Naomi Osaka. Her appearance has been distilled down to its lowest-common-denominator characteristics: light skin, slim frame, blonde hair. She might as well be Maria Sharapova.

Caricatures, by their nature, are meant to distort and exaggerate. But they’re also meant to be symbolic, representative; short-hand for a concept or idea.

Here, the narrative is clear: Williams has been cast as the big, ugly, angry black woman. Osaka, by contrast, has been cast as the innocent white girl, even though she’s not even white.

Knight’s cartoon is what happens when we flatten whole human beings into types, when the story and its narratives become far more important than the nuance. In the process, racist and sexist assumptions are perpetuated and we strip people of their right to be weak and strong, of the totality of their humanity.

Here is the bottom line: On Saturday, two talented tennis players ― one black, one Japanese and black ― played a deeply emotional game, and those emotions came brimming to the surface for a whole host of reasons.

But it wasn’t a matter of villain and victim, good and bad, black and white. Williams is an icon, a legend. And she’s a fallible and whole human being. Just as Osaka is more than just Japanese, more than tearful and endearingly apologetic. She’s a fierce competitor with a distinct personal history, not a symbol of acceptable blackness to weaponize against Williams.

Indeed, she is many things, but what perhaps matters most is who she sees herself as, especially on the court:

“I’m just a tennis player playing another tennis player,” Osaka explained after she accepted her trophy.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-whitewashing-of-naomi-osaka_us_5b967eb3e4b0cf7b004209b5
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Savage Serena claimed sexism when she was playing a female. Maybe, as with most blacks, she blurted out one of the typical go to statements when things don't go the way one wants them to go.
 
Literally if they'd just given the same figure brown skin and black hair, it would still be a weird caricature, but it at least wouldn't be absurd bullshit.
 
Watermark said:
Oh damn you're talking about the same shit

Yeah I was like WTF when I saw that comic. Osaka grew up and lives in America, although she was born in Japan and has Japanese citizenship (I'm sure Japan was ecstatic to have someone of her skill level eligible to compete for them anyway). Were it not known that she's Japanese, any naive onlooker would probably paint her as African-American. But she becomes a blonde white woman the minute she is paired against Serena Williams, because blacks are at the bottom of the pecking order and Asians are a little closer to white on the pecking order.
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I disagree. There was a time when blacks headed the Democrat Hierarchy of Victimization but that time is over. Since they guaranteed Democrats they would exclusively vote for them their place has been lowered.

It is now

Muslims
Gays
Latinos
Blacks
Asians
Whites

Blacks are actually very close to Asians in the bottom of the pecking order.
 
Watermark said:
You can look at the comic yourself. That is not a caricature of Osaka. It is a caricature of a blonde white woman.
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My guess is the cartoonist didn't even know the name of the winner since the whole match was about poor Serena. Perhaps it was intentional to make that point. I don't know. But it's funny. Cartoons are funny.
 
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