Game. Set. Match.
“How y’all like me now?” is what her front cover pose for Sports Illustrated seems to say, in GREAT BIG LETTERS LIKE VEGAS.
Sexy enough to make the pages smoke and burn, singeing the fingers. And flat out setting the racists on fire.
So does it matter that some conservatives are pissed off, and think that the honor should actually have gone to a horse instead? Does it matter? Only because the fact that some folks think a horse is more deserving of a Sportsperson (yes, person) of the Year award than a supremely gifted black woman is yet another mirror reflection of the demons that have been loosed from Pandora’s box ever since President Obama ascended to the throne.
From Raw Story:
Sport Illustrated has named tennis champion Serena Williams as its 2015 Sportsperson of the Year, but conservatives and others are incensed that the publication chose to honor Williams rather than horse-racing triple crown winner American Pharoah.
And then there’s this…
Columnist Brian Zipse at HorseRacingNation.com was outraged that the horse was “denied” the title.
“But…American Pharoah won the Grand Slam, and Serena Williams did not,” Zipse fumed. “Once again, Thoroughbred horse racing has been denied by mainstream sports media.”
“Sports Illustrated, your agenda is showing,” he said.
I guess black folk have always known that you had to be twice as good just to get half the recognition, but we thought that meant in comparison to other human beings. So now we got to worry about competing against four-legged critters for respect?
No. We don’t.
Game. Set. Match.
Serena is the undisputed Queen of Sport. The Greatest. And that throne fits just fine.
