Why The Cartoon of Serena Williams is Racist

I wanted to stay out of this because it is hard not to feel passionate about how our people have been treated for hundreds of years.  It is crazy to think that the Herald Sun would minimize (in this day and age) the backlash that was received from Mark Knight's depiction of Serena Williams during the US Open final.  Mr. Knight defended himself against backlash claiming the depiction was not racist, he stated it had nothing to do with race and everything to do with the so called tantrum (it's called passion when white male tennis players behave this way) that Serena threw.  The Herald Sun went on to minimize the entire thing as the world being too PC (politically correct).

This is what it really is, it wasn't just a cartoon it was a minstrel cartoon.  If you are not black and or an educated compassionate human being you don't care what a minstrel cartoon depiction disguised as satire really is.  Mark Knight and the Herald Sun don't care about how those minstrel depictions affected Black Americans.  Either they are not educated about the minstrel shows that dehumanized and degraded Black Americans or they just don't care.  At some point you care or you don't, if you don't care you might be a racist.  You might think you can do that to a Black Woman, a Black American Athlete because you think less of her.  No matter her accomplishments you can depict her this way because either, you don't care or your ignorant to what the depiction really is.  It was a minstrel cartoon dug up from the grave to oppress Serena Williams and make her feel bad about herself.  Plain and simple and the fact that Mark Knight and the Herald Sun is defending this minstrel depiction makes them what...  The fact that Americans and educated people around the world are disgusted by this depiction makes us what...

Stop using the excuse of the world is too PC, everyone is too sensitive.  That's not an excuse for blatant racism.  Mark Knight knew what he was doing, the Herald Sun knew what they were doing.  It is just another form of oppression that Black Americans have suffered for hundreds of years and continue to suffer.  We here at Nina Monroe are by no means saying that Mark Knight should not have drawn a cartoon depicting Serena Williams' so called tantrum, a tasteful cartoon could have been quite funny to some.  But that cartoon was drawn to do exactly what it did, it was up and down minstrel and Mark Knight and the Herald Sun would be wise to become educated on the difference.