'I don’t think of myself as a 'sports person,' and though I’ve followed tennis since I was a kid, I never thought of paying to see it live—until Serena Williams became a lead player.' RosamondDrKing on why serenawilliams means so much to her:
Because she didn’t come from the “right” class background for tennis, or from a pile of money for coaches and trainers to prepare her for what would become her career. Because at the beginning, she wasn’t as gracious or as poised as Venus. Because there are so many moments, sometimes entire hours or days later, when we realize we said or did the “wrong” thing—when we feel like an imposter.sport at that. Like so many other black women, she goes about her profession alone, in a sea of whiteness.
Because she dominated when people were hurling slurs at her like they were tennis balls, and because she continues to dominate now when she’s often the crowd favorite. Because often the world seems against us—only to say Because she seems like a regular black woman—so regular that she almost died immediately after giving birth to her daughter. Because
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