The Whitewashing Of Naomi Osaka

noise said:
beauty/ugly is in the eye of the beholder. The rest of this isn't a "narrative" it's how she looked and acted..

add in unsportsmanlike to an nth. degree . She was completely unhinged.

Question: did she ever apologize?
If she did, then that goes a long way to saying her meltdown was in the moment. we all have those moments

If she didn't...then she is completely classless and a spoiled brat.
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did he apologize?
 
Irthriuth said:
well owl said no one was talking about race. obviously that is wrong
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The cartoon itself demonstrates that many are talking about race.

Your side as it relates to the false narrative of division.

My side as it relates to an awakening of who Naomi Osaka is. She has a very interesting story. .. But that's mushy intellectual kind of stuff that your side is rarely interested in.

Rather talk about how Serena looks. :0) Cool
 
evince said:
and?


hes also Asian on his moms side too

His dad is white


some latinos are of African decent


did you now that?
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Associated Press article Monday describes George Zimmerman as 'white'

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.wa...ated-press-article-monday-describes-george-z/

Sharpton devoted a portion of his program on MSNBC, PoliticsNation, to the Trayvon Martin case. He interviewed Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump, who reiterated the accusation that Zimmerman was “white”: “We think Trayvon Martin didn’t know who the heck this white man was who approached him before he got killed.”

https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journ...Crime-Story-Became-a-National-Racial-Outrage/
 
Has Obama ever been referred to as a White-Black or White-Black Aferican American?

Nope


But the left and the media was quick to jump on Zimmerman white part. Why?

Because they could use it and play the race card, and because it involved The Killing of a black man... So hey we got include the white part
 
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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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I agree that Knight’s cartoon was offensive. I also agree that Williams behavior was less than exemplary and that the pro Williams crowds behavior was extremely disrespectful towards Osaka and diminished the crowning moment of her young career of defeating the greatest female athlete of this era.

I say three cheers for Osaka.
 
Irthriuth said:
many liberals were absolutely insisting it had a lot to do with race and that serena was a black woman and black women like totes should be allowed to smash their rackets and berate a ump for the whole match
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No I think most liberals, conservatives and moderates who have any concept of sportsmanship believe she acted like a John MacEnroe brat. What does that have to do with the racist nature of Knights cartoon?
 
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