July 5, 2005, - 4:12 pm
Venus/Serena Dad: Bored by My Daughters = Racism
By Debbie Schlussel
If you think Venus and Serena Williams (VenuSerena) are “boring” (and they are), then you are a racist. So says, Dad of VenuSerena, Richard Williams, whose history of crying “racism” rivals a certain fable character’s history of crying “wolf”. In an interview with AP, he said, “When it was Steffi Graf or Chris Evert that won, or Monica Seles — but when those two black girls came and beat up everyone, tennis was ‘not exciting.'” Fans think VenuSerena made tennis “not exciting anymore. It’s boring.”
Message to Big Daddy Williams: If your daughters looked like Tyra Banks and Beyonce, maybe fans would find your daughters exciting. It has nothing to do with race. Fans weren’t excited by Seles or Graf, either. But they just loved Anna Kournikova. Her tennis skills (she never won a tournament) had nothing to do with it. Crying “racism” all the time doesn’t help. Nor does the Wayans brothers’ hilarious Comedy Central parody of VenuSerena in a “Got Milk?” ad. Sports is showbiz, and winning Wimbledon–as Venus did Saturday–just ain’t enough, these days.
Tags: Anna Kournikova, Chris Evert, Debbie Schlussel, Monica Seles, Richard Williams, Serena Dad, Serena Williams, Steffi Graf, tennis, Tyra Banks, Venus Williams, Wimbledon
Don’t forget the nearly as hot as Debbie Schlussel, Maria Sharapova. (Why do most of the good lucking tennis chicks come from Russia?)
I don’t have a big problem with the Amazon Williams nags’ looks, it’s just they come across as whiney jerks, and their race card dropping dad is despicable. I would rather see them than that Navratilova guy and Willy Jean King. It doesn’t matter, their day has passed, despite Venus winning and grazing at Wimbledon. Serena thinks she’s some model/fashionista/acting babe…I’m sure Tyra is shaking in her Wonderbra.
Deb, expect another Sharon pic soon.
The_Man on July 5, 2005 at 9:47 pm