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Thanks to Serena, black women are now free to rage.
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Williams had liberated herself of constraint. Rather than swallow her frustrations in the face of discrimination, Williams fought back and reminded the world of her greatness. In doing so, she gave her 20-year-old vanquisher, Naomi Osaka, an even bigger victory: the right to be angry and black and a woman — on and off the court. Her rage was for the countless women silenced by sexist discrimination, not a simple pleading for herself.
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In her defiance and dismay, we saw ourselves: women who play by the rules, exceed professional expectations, and yet, still find ourselves constrained by the Angry Black Woman stereotype...
the myth of the Angry Black Woman does not simply deny black women the opportunity to express our full range of human emotions...
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Williams did break rules that day, but the most important ones were not rules of tennis. Rather than remain silent, she insisted on being heard. Rather than contain herself, she used her rage...
Henry Rutgers Chair of African American Studies and Creative Writing; Founding Director of the New Arts Social Justice Initiative at Express Newark; Associate Director of the Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience
another angry sports liberal thats battling age, the real reason for her recent loss--too bad for her theres more of that to come, maybe she will be reasonable about the next ones.
I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but I always stressed sportsmanship when I coached. It's better to lose with grace than to be remembered for temper tantrums like McEnroe.
Naomi Osaka handled herself with grace and class, her more experienced opponent threw a fit and broke her racket.
Was the tantrum about the chair judges call or was it about the frustration of being beaten? After the fact she can claim whatever she likes, but nothing she says changes the fact that we punish children for far less than smashing a tennis racket in a rage. Not a role model moment.
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