Richard Williams plays race card

signonsandiego.com ^ | 8/05/03

[corsair]

Catspaw wrote about Ken Adelman's alleged necktie that is a flag; "I'll ping you the next time Adelman's on FoxNews wearing his flag necktie."

Okay, thanks, Catspaw. I'll look for that, and also do a search.

[cyborg]

I am thinking that Williams didn't alert her to sitting on the flag since he hates it in the first place. Your post is quite insightful.

[Catspaw]

Good luck finding a picture of Adelman in his tie. I only found one reference to it in Counterpunch, no picture. I don't have the ability to screen capture. However, Adelman was on Fox (or another cable show) over the weekend, wearing his flag tie.

[Katya]

His daughters are about the sweetest girls you could ever meet, and unlike so many young kids are both very hard working and already looking towards the next peak.

I'll give him this, I've heard plenty of tennis afficianados complain that their domination of the sport is making the game boring. I couldn't tell you what the political affiliation of these whiners is, but I can tell you that they're all white. I would say, I think it's less because they're black, than it is that there are TWO of them.

[Katya]

"I don't recall hearing complaints when Martina Navratilova ruled the courts".

You know, Martina has complained that these two spend too much time on "other" interests rather than just tennis. One of them is designing a clothing line, the other is pursuing acting. It is amazing that they are able to do so much.

[Sam Cree]

Thanks.

[corsair]

"His daughters are about the sweetest girls you could ever meet"

Where did you meet them?

"I've heard plenty of tennis afficianados complain that their domination of the sport is making the game boring. I couldn't tell you what the political affiliation of these whiners is, but I can tell you that they're all white."

Not a surprise to me, I'd guess that most tennis aficionados are white.

[junta]

I see my detractors here on this thread have fallen under the spell of the Wicked Witch of PC. If they were white and someone in their association had said something remotely "racist" all hell would break loose and if they did not cast that person off to the bottom levels of Hell it would be their end, but the rules are different and bufoons such as Doofus boy run loose and goofy apologists persevere in excusing him for his ill mannered diatribes.

[Michael2001]

Williams also said he will never salute the flag because of racism in America.

This guy's an A-hole

[JustPiper]

This is so, as usual off the mark for God sake! I mean we know how good the Williams girls are, we like the sibling rivalry, once again what does this have to do with race?!

[katz]

This doesn't suprise me. America provides the freedom and liberty to be what you want to be and then has to be beaten down by those who think that Individual talent means nothing. Let the family move to Cuba and be talent greats there.

[merry10]

not that I am a big tennis fan, but...if we complain about Serena probably inadvertantly sitting on the flag, we need to complain about all the people with their very tattered post 9/11 flags still flapping on their cars.

[corsair]

merry 10 wrote; not that I am a big tennis fan, but...if we complain about Serena probably inadvertantly sitting on the flag,we need to complain about all the people with their very tattered post 9/11 flags still flapping on their cars.

(1) merry10, I don't agree with you "Serena probably inadvertantly sitting on the flag", but I'd go along with possibly, if it can be proved that Serena has diminished mental and visual capacity. Serena Williams is a finely tuned gifted athlete with excellent vision and capable of hitting tennis balls rocketing towards her at high speeds. You're asking that people believe Serena Williams "probably inadvertantly" sat on the flag for several different photographs and stood there not noticing the flags dragging on the ground while a series of at least 10 photographs, if not twice or three times that many, were snapped by just one photographer of several present.

(2) Excellent point about the tattered flags on cars. The people that do this make me gag. Any idiot can wave the flag, wrap herself or himself in the flag or sit on it as Serena did, but few people take the time to learn and understand the history and traditions in the care of and display of the U.S. flag. I don't know about your "we" part, but I've mentioned this to more than a few people, all strangers, none of them celebrities as far as I know. If just one celebrity could be nailed to the idiot wall on network television news for driving a car with a tattered flag in the breeze, other people doing it might take notice.