I like Trevor Noah but his handling of Serena Williams US Open incident has been extremely disappointing.....

[dvang]

 

[HATEmeCUZyouAINTme]

Are you gonna expand on why you think it's disappointing

[dvang]

Are you gonna expand on why you think it's disappointing

i thought the videos themselves would be self explanatory but here are some of the reasons :

 

1. His use of race and sexism card to defend her.

 

2. Comparing tennis to other sports where there is more leniency shown regarding the rules.

 

3. Saying Serena Williams is tennis which is a huge disrespect to Tennis as a sport or any sport being reduced to one player.

 

4.  Basically using his compete lack of knowledge of Tennis as a way to defend Serena

[Eodumi Jiteulsulog Joa]

after all the supportive campaign for Serena from the US media ,i'm convinced that North Americans are completely oblivious to tennis

[delirium]

More and more, it's starting to feel like what's right and wrong in the West is becoming based purely on things like someone's gender, ethnicity, sexuality, social economic status, career, nationality, or religion and not on any objective facts or moral standard that transcends across the scope of human identity. On one hand, they're trying to fight that type of mindset (Serena bringing up possible sexism) but on their other hand, they're encouraging and exacerbating that type of mindset (people blindly supporting Serena bc its woman vs man and black vs white). I don't know.

[ohsolively]

Serena has faced a lot during her career but this incident was very disappointing in how she handled it. We should have been talking about how 2 black women were in the finals and how Naomi (who I'm sure has faced her fair share discrimination) beat her role model on a grand stage and how Serena was welcoming the next generation of athletes whom she had inspired.

 

Instead we got tantrums which dampened and robbed another young black asian woman's major achievement. 

[Midnight~Circus]

Serena has faced a lot during her career but this incident was very disappointing in how she handled it. We should have been talking about how 2 black women were in the finals and how Naomi (who I'm sure has faced her fair share discrimination) beat her role model on a grand stage and how Serena was welcoming the next generation of athletes whom she had inspired.

 

Instead we got tantrums which dampened and robbed another young black asian woman's major achievement. 

 

This is exactly how I feel.

 

I don't get why everyone is pacifying her when she handled the whole debacle poorly. I felt terrible for Naomi during the award ceremony. It was hard to watch. That was her moment to shine and be proud, not to mention she made history for Japan, but it was overshadowed by Serena.

[乃木�]

Serena has faced a lot during her career but this incident was very disappointing in how she handled it. We should have been talking about how 2 black women were in the finals and how Naomi (who I'm sure has faced her fair share discrimination) beat her role model on a grand stage and how Serena was welcoming the next generation of athletes whom she had inspired.

 

Instead we got tantrums which dampened and robbed another young black asian woman's major achievement.

+1

[mochichan]

He's just basically parroting back what most woke twitter peep been saying. I really hate that they used """feminism""" as a shield from Serena obvious bad behaviours and sportsmanship. She berated the guy for 5 min before he gave her the penalty and both of the previous one were given correctly. As a champion, she should've knew how to behave better. People defended her bc of her popularity, saying like "Serena is tenis" instead of looking at the actual situation.

[Your Juan and only]

How many of you guys actually watch tennis and know about tennis that doesn't include reading wikipedia and a brief read up since this incident?

 

If yall do then u would know Ramos has a history, Serena may have gone overboard a bit with the racket which no one has disagreed on but the other two was not acceptable especially the last one, he was mad a woman made that comment because just last year a Male tennis player has said those words to him and did not receive type of punishment. Ramos had also had history with Venus so Trevor was correct with his opinion also the comparison of other sports is fine too, why can every sport be compared but not tennis.

 

Ramos should have issued a soft warning, yall dont get this.... this was the grand slam! these code violations are rarely enforced at grand slams and because coaching is done so many times, Ramos was obviously made because his masculinity was put in check.

[thefacts]

i thought the videos themselves would be self explanatory but here are some of the reasons :

 

1. His use of race and sexism card to defend

 

Pretty sure that society as always used the sexism and race card against Serena. Did you see the racist and sexist Australian cartoon that played into the racist black women "stereotypes" and narratives? As a dark skin black woman, Serena as constantly faced sexism, racism, colorism, and misgendering even without having a so called "meltdown."

 

Serena has faced a lot during her career but this incident was very disappointing in how she handled it. We should have been talking about how 2 black women were in the finals and how Naomi (who I'm sure has faced her fair share discrimination) beat her role model on a grand stage and how Serena was welcoming the next generation of athletes whom she had inspired.

 

Instead we got tantrums which dampened and robbed another young black asian woman's major achievement.

 

Naomi identified as a biracial. She is proud of both her Haitian and Japanese heritage. Please respect her identification and stop following that racist one drop rule. It reeks of inferiority complex.