Big Thanks to Nikole Hannah-Jones for Tweeting about the shockingly racist cartoon from Australian cartoonist Mark Knight of the Herald and Weekly Times Newspapers. I'm not hosting an open forum about Serena Williams' behavior at the U.S. Open here. Frankly, I don't care what people think about it. And plenty of people who are a lot smarter than me have already analyzed every angle of the event. I do know that as a woman, and an African American, I can relate to what went down. And when someone like Mark Knight hands you the perfect Exhibit A about the lived experience for people of African descent, you don't need to drag out the soap box. In his cartoon, Serena is depicted as a gross caricature straight out of an 1890's minstrel show. Naomi Osaka gets an "upgrade" of a blonde ponytail and white skin, to negate her double whammy of Asian and African heritage. Kind of speaks for itself, doesn't it? #unconsciousbiasmyfoot #sexism #racism #implicitbias #fedup …see more