Australian cartoonist Mark Knight was hit with massive backlash for depicting tennis superstar Serena Williams' US Open meltdown on Saturday in a cartoon for the Herald Sun.
Knight was immediately knocked as racist and sexist for drawing an angry Williams with exaggerated features stomping on her tennis racket with a pacifier nearby on the court. In the background, the chair umpire is shown asking 20-year-old Naomi Osaka, "Can you just let her win?"
But Knight is refusing to apologize and standing by his drawing, as are his colleagues at the Herald Sun. "It had nothing to do with gender or race," the seasoned cartoonist explained in a video for the paper.
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No different than the lady in front of me at a local sub shop raising holy hell about onions being put on her sub when she specifically said NO ONIONS.No diplomacy or tact whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteI think he nailed it!
ReplyDeleteLove it she is a crying.
ReplyDeleteThe reason why there are no tennis courts on Lake Street.
ReplyDeletethe williams sisters are SUCH entitled brats
ReplyDeleteWhat kills me about this whole Williams deal claiming the judge is sexist because he stole a championship from a woman is, wasn’t it the other woman Williams was playing that won???
ReplyDeleteScrew that ENTITLED B...H.
ReplyDeleteI guess it's only white people that can be insulted and bashed.
ReplyDeleteI guess they only want Black transgender pink hatter's judging other Snowflakes.
ReplyDeleteI found it quite amusing and really depicted what took place, she threw a hissy fit cuz she was losing.
ReplyDeleteI like Serena, I think tennis does go out of their way to make her life difficult and I do find her portrail in that picture to be insulting. I am not some snowflake either but in this instance her anger is justified. It's not what happened that day it's what has been happening for a long time and this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
ReplyDeleteIt would be like me doing a cartoon of Republicans, but making them look like Hitler and making light of their complaints about unfair treatment by the IRS and main stream media by showing them in a diaper crying. You would all be justifiably angered at that unrealistic portrail as I am of this one.
That's bc she really is moooochella Obama a MAN.
DeleteI bet you like The Obamas and Al Sharpton and vote for black people JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK too huh? I R S ??? Lol. Well, Your comment just let EVERYONE see what a STUPID UNEDUCATED DEMOCRAT SLAVE you are. I R S ??
DeleteYou do realize that YOU are a SNOWFLAKE if you get insulted over a simple cartoon, right? I bet that you feel OFFENDED quite a bit too. We don't care. We just laugh at you all.
DeleteThe cartoon was a exact likeness of her and her tantrums, I guess another stupid Democrat can't handle the truth.
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ReplyDeleteSerena's behavior was an embarrassment, to tennis and to herself. To mix metaphors, she's playing the back nine on her career and this will get prominent mention when she stops playing.
That was an Australian cartoonist who drew the cartoon not an American cartoonist. Only White American Cartoonist can be racist against African Americans. Each country has its own racist race. .
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