Osaka’s biracial identity is inconvenient in a racist narrative that turns Williams into a stereotype. It’s more expedient to focus on all the things about her that aren’t stereotypically black: her light skin, her soft-spoken nature, her tear-filled apology after winning the match. In this way, Osaka is framed if not as a white woman, then as a more acceptable and palatable version of blackness ― as the type of black person that doesn’t make you acknowledge their blackness.
I SO noticed this on Twitter. White people were like, “Serena stole this nice girl’s moment with her bad behaviour!” while Black people were like “Naomi is a Black queen too, thank you very much! Black Girl Magic!! We ❤ you Naomi and also Serena was treated like shit, because we can support both our sisters!” It’s possible to support them both, but so many white people are so excited to be able to bash “angry Black woman” Serena that they’ll pretend Naomi isn’t proudly Black, too.
While all of them totally erasing the fact that she’s half Japanese, despite the name Naomi Osaka. And her “soft-spoken nature” and “tear-filled apology after winning” is more of a japanese mannerism.
Also, she is the first Japanese woman to win that game (doesn’t really care about tennis so can’t remember the game’s name), so you all just erased that glory from Japanese people too.
Because yeah, as usual, asians totally don’t exsist.
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