A newspaper in Australia is catching loads of warmth over a cartoon that was making an attempt to spoof Serena Williams' incident at the U.S. Open -- as a result of it's racist as hell.
The cartoon -- drawn by Mark Knight (editorial drawer for the Herald Sun newspaper) -- shows the court game ace stomping on her racket.
But, let's get serious, it's sort of a Jim Crow-era, the Sambo-style caricature of a Negro -- not Serena Williams.
The cartoon has been blasted by athletes and celebs as well as J.K. Rowling who said, "Well done on reducing one amongst the best sportswomen alive to racist and sexist tropes and turning a second great sport into an anonymous prop."
ESPN's team member Jemele Hill noted the racism is "About as subtle as Fran Drescher’s voice."
So far, it does not appear to be the Herald Sun is backing down -- they retweeted the image and haven't force it. At least, not yet.
As we tend to report Serena was fined many times throughout Saturday's U.S. Open finals match against Naomi port. Serena went off on the decide claiming he was a "thief" World Health Organization scarf some extent from her.
The decide then fined Serena a game for the "verbal abuse." Williams continued to travel off on the guy to different tournament officers claiming the decide would ne'er treat a person that approach.
