Mark Knight could’ve easily drawn Serena Williams as a toddler, as a baby throwing a tantrum, but he went the “hulking brute” route, as if Serena is so much larger than all of her competitors/“victims.”
“I don’t know how you draw an African-American person by not making them look like an African-American person.” – CBS News
Yet he drew the “victim” – who is half Black/half Japanese – as a faceless blonde white woman. Just say “angry Black women are animals” and go.
Angry Black people are always larger than life to white people. Every cop shooting of an unarmed Black man talks about how huge the victim was, how they had superhuman strength running through a hail of bullets like Michael Brown. 12-year-old Tamir Rice was a grown man to the cops who shot him.
Maria Sharapova’s autobiography repeatedly tried to paint her as a victim to Serena’s ENORMOUSLY SCARY BODY.
In reality, this is what Serena Williams looks like next to Naomi Osaka.
Yes, she’s bigger and stronger…the way a Camry is bigger than a Geo Metro, not the way a semi-truck is bigger than a 2-door coupe.
“The black woman of the white imagination is not the black woman of reality. Over and over folks have jumped in my timeline telling this cartoon was justified because Serena is SO MUCH bigger, huge, gargantuan. She is not. It’s your bigotry that’s gigantic, not her.” – Nikole Hannah Jones
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