A similar gesture recently made by Caroline Wozniacki likely to be made for Sernea Williams is one such latest incident that is being projected with concern in the media.
The gesture was made by Caroline Wozniacki during her match with Maria Sharapova in Brazil during the Gillette Federer Tour, when the Danish world no.10 stuck towels in her chest and bottom and parodied those features of Serena Williams.
Although the gesture was made by the Danish player making an effort to impersonate Serena Williams, God knows why and to what purpose, but the action has taken a racist turn and has become somewhat controversial.
Wozniacki and Williams are friends, and surely no harm – many have said it was a racist action – was meant by it. Many have taken a simple parody and turned it into something bigger than it really is – including some celebrities, such as Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd, co-hosts on ABC’s “The View,” who have deemed the actions as racist.
What Wozniacki did was in no way racist, or intended to poke fun at Serena’s body. Some say that she was mocking a certain African American look, with a big chest and a big rear – features that Serena has. However, is it not also true that Caucasian women also have big chests and big bottoms? Or that African American women also look just like many Caucasian slender women (models, for instance)?
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