I needed to move all my tumblr posts because I'm scared parts of my blog would be lost. I'm not sure if I'm going to be deleted so I'm just trying to be safe.
Serena Williams standing up for herself while referee accuses her of cheating. She had been docked points for coaching that didn’t happen.
This is so….so much deeper than what’s on the surface.
This umpire basically accused her of cheating! And penalized her for his accusations. This is touchy for Serena being that they have been conspiring against her for the longest with the whole drug testing. She’s had it with them opposing her with no merit or basis! SHE HAS NEVER CHEATED which has been proven time after time with those negative results. and to accuse her of that during this game is why she is extremely and rightfully emotional! The pain and humiliation in her voice says it all. It really hurt her for him to accuse her of that so publicly too. He announced it during the match on the mic to everyone and now that’s like a stain on this moment forever. That’s why she’s demanding he apologize to her and say it over the loudspeaker. To set the record straight that she didn’t do what he alleged.
Honestly she has faced the most her entire career and her mental fortitude to endure it and still be dominant is a miracle. ALWAYS A QUEEN
(this match was painful & angering to watch)
What’s even more annoying is that later on in the game, she got even more frustrated (both due to this and the fact that her and her opponent were playing INCREDIBLY GOOD GAMES!) and smashed her racket, and was docked points. When she called the umpire a thief, he decided to make a power play and cost her a whole game.
Not only did he try to steal this moment from Serena, he also cast a shadow over what should’ve been an AMAZING victory for 20 year old Naomi Osaka, a Haitian-Japanese player who’s the first Japanese Player to win a Grand Slam tournament.
This umpire literally cast a huge stain over this moment for both of these women, all because a black woman spoke to him in a tone he didn’t like. Never in tennis has there been such a severe penalization for something like being called a “thief” when there’s a well-documented history of male tennis players saying much worse.
“The name Hitler does not offend a black South African because Hitler is not the worst thing a black South African can imagine. Every country thinks their history is the most important, and that’s especially true in the West. But if black South Africans could go back in time and kill one person, Cecil Rhodes would come up before Hitler. If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgium’s King Leopold would come way before Hitler. If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson. I often meet people in the West who insist that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in human history, without question. Yes, it was horrific. But I often wonder, with African atrocities like in the Congo, how horrific were they? The thing Africans don’t have that Jewish people do have is documentation. The Nazis kept meticulous records, took pictures, made films. And that’s really what it comes down to. Holocaust victims count because Hitler counted them. Six million people killed. We can all look at that number and be rightly horrified. But when you read through the history of atrocities against Africans, there are no numbers, only guesses. It’s harder to be horrified by a guess. When Portugal and Belgium were plundering Angola and the Congo, they weren’t counting the black people they slaughtered. How many black people died harvesting rubber in the Congo? In the gold and diamond mines of the Transvaal? So in Europe and America, yes, Hitler is the Greatest Madman in History. In Africa he’s just another strongman from the history books.”
— Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (via christymtidwell)
ALL OF THISSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!
READ IT..THEN READ IT AGAIN..THEN PASS IT ON TO OTHERS !!!
Interrogate yourself. Figure out why specific thoughts make you feel a certain way. Ask yourself numerous questions and try to understand the root anxieties and wounds that are buried underneath your fears. In order to heal something we must first understand it.
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