Once, Althea Gibson was barred from the grounds. A half-century later, the Williams sisters have won six singles titles.

WIMBLEDON, England - Once, Althea Gibson was barred from the grounds. A half-century later, the Williams sisters have won six singles titles.

Once, Gibson won two singles titles and had no prize money. Saturday, Venus Williams earned more than $1.407-million. Yet, said her father, Richard, not enough has changed.

“What it means to me, from the way I see things, is that blacks are treated the same way here at Wimbledon as when she (Gibson) was coming along in the ’50s, ” he said. “I don’t see it any different than now. I will always see it that way.”

Minutes after his daughter won her fourth Wimbledon title, he was talking as usual outside Centre Court. The Times asked about the significance of Gibson’s breakthrough win in 1957, and he was off and running.

“If you’re past 10 years old, you know what I’m talking about, ” he said. “I turn on the TV here, and you can’t find one black player, not one black man or woman or child, on TV that does a commercial. And we came here four days before the tournament. Why don’t the English have one black (person) doing a damn commercial? I’m not saying they don’t, but I’ve been here three weeks, and I haven’t seen it, and I’ve taped everything. Not one. What 50 years are you talking about?”

Throughout the careers of daughters Venus, 27, and Serena, 25, Richard Williams has been outspoken, often amusing and often controversial. As he talked Saturday, his voice rose.

“I don’t think there has been progress anywhere in America. In America, (George W.) Bush was the governor of Texas, and they pulled a black man down the street with his neck separated from his head (the James Byrd Jr. murder in 1998 in Jasper). Nothing has changed, and nothing’s going to change. The only way I can see things changing is for the black people in America to do the same thing the Iranians are doing, and that’s to fight until the s— is over with. And this interview is over with.”

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More foolish nonsense from an old ignorant ass “rich” Negro, who does not have shit else to do but mumble nonsense as stupid ass media types stick a microphone in front of his face to give him credibility, credibility he otherwise would not have if is daughters were not tennis stars.

Just as Julian Bond, until these old stupid ass Negro fucks die off, the rest of us black folks will continue to be, tangled in a web of colossal verbal ignorance not because people like Williams have anything meaningful to say but it gives white liberal media types and excuse to write race baiting stories demeaning society and therefore creating more and more angry uneducated victims of this “clearly” racist society.

Things have changed for the better, that is not even debatable, however class warfare is the battle ground. Black folks today have fewer weapons to fight with, but that is by choice.
If you are an uneducated lazy bastard with dark skin who do you think is coming to your defense? It sure as hell will not be me.
When the tools to fight perceived racism and victim hood are given to you free, with instructions and you “choose” not only to take them and then also refuse to read the instructions then you don’t have a damm thing to complain about.

As far as I’m concerned if you are sitting on a corner in East St. Louis consuming liquid gold from a paper bag or in Kansas City sitting in an audience listening to Mrs. Bill Clinton speak about cronyism and racism in government while speaking in ghettoized dialect you are both on the same collision course.
Yes indeed idiot ass liberal Democrats at least have the decency to use Ebonics to help idiot Negros understand just how they will fuck them over.
Republicans and Conservative talk all “proper” trying to mislead “us.”
What’s the use, if you are too fucken stupid to realize the dilemma Negros have themselves tangles in, then you too would agree with Richard Williams assessment.

This entry was posted on Monday, July 9th, 2007 at 12:27 pm and is filed under Negro Watch, Society, Sports, Blacks, News Watch, shut the fuck up.
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