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DonCoquixote

(13,745 posts)
1. it won't
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 09:31 AM
Sep 2018

I got pilloried for saying the same thing, with a lot of, sorry to say it the people that inspired the term "wypipo" getting all in my case. Serena is a threat to the tennis establishment, where someone like Anna Kournekova can be loauded because she has the Aryan looks. The types that like to think they could be in the country club got MAD.

and I also get yelled at because Osaka "was black."

Let me say this, She is Japanese. If she was raised in America, she would be called the "N" word. Granted, being of mixed race in Japan, a culture that does not even consider Chinese or Koreans worthy, was probably NOT easy, but she did not have to live in a culture where the default setting for any black or brown person was "hate them, kill them, take their ideas and money and say you deserve credit."

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this should [View all] heaven05 Sep 2018 OP
it won't DonCoquixote Sep 2018 #1
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Naomi Osaka was born in Japan and lived the first three years of her life in Osaka GeoWilliam750 Sep 2018 #3
sorry to say sir, but as a Puerto Rican DonCoquixote Sep 2018 #4
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