Richard Williams, the father of Venus and Serena Williams, has never been one to bite his tongue. It doesn’t matter to Richard if he sounds like a fool to us, he’s gonna say what he has to say. Remember the time he was arguing with a judge in court?
Serena and Venus were recently in India playing tennis and doing some modeling. Unfortunately for them Papa Williams was there too and doing interviews. He spoke with the Deccan Herald and let me tell you, he was in the zone.
On how his daughters are treated in tennis:
Tennis is a prejudice game. Well, I’m Black and I’m prejudiced, very prejudiced. I’ll be always prejudiced as the White man. The White man hated me all my life and I hate him. That’s no secret. I’m not even an American, it just so happens that I was born in America. People are prejudiced in tennis. I don’t think Venus or Serena was ever accepted by tennis. They never will be. But if you get some little White no good trasher in America like Tracy Austin or Chris Evert who cannot hit the ball, they will claim this is great.
On Venus and Serena after tennis:
There were taught that there is a life behind the baseline. If you look at most of your tennis players when they are finished playing tennis, where are they going? Look at (John) McEnroe, (Martina) Navratilova, Vijay Amritraj, look at all of them. All their lives they have been in sports, where are they now? Do you want that for your child?
You go spend 20 years playing tennis and another 20 years announcing tennis, that is 40 years of your life, you mean, you never learnt anything else!?
Skipping right over the “f you whitey” section of his rant, it’s hilarious to hear a guy that’s famous only because of his daughters calling out people that have dedicated their lives to tennis for not learning anything else. What the hell has Richard Williams ever done besides make two hot daughters?.. I mean, besides go on racist tirades that make John Rocker say “whoa, dude, Richard, tone it down.”
People in the tennis world are prejudiced. Courtesy of the Deccan Herald
Tags: Richard Williams, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, tennis, WTA, racism
