A lot of Black people have criticized tennis champion Serena Williams and her sister Venus Williams for marrying and dating White men, instead of sticking with Black brothers.
I have to be honest, hearing Serena Williams making a statement like this kind of threw me for a loop. I know for a fact that Serena Williams is pro-black and well aware of her history. But this begs the question, can you be pro-black and have a mate from another race?
If I had to personally answer this question, my answer would be no. I believe in what Dr. John Henrick Clarke said about marriage, “In order to preserve the bloodline, you must marry black and reproduce black children.”
The couple met in May 2015 at the Cavalieri Hotel in Rome. When he sat down at the empty poolside table next to her, Williams recalls trying her best to get him to move, but he didn’t budge and they instead struck up a conversation and hit it off.
In November, they tied the knot in a gorgeous fairytale New Orleans wedding just two months after welcoming their daughter, Alexis Olympia.
Well according to the greatest female tennis player and quite possible the greatest female athlete of all time, of all the men she dated, the white men especially her now husband, treated her better than the Black men.
“When I date someone I never see color,” Serena said, “I date who I have chemistry with, but I must say Alexis has treated me better than any Black man I have dated.”
Putting a statement out like this makes black men look real bad, I don’t think that was her intention. However, it still makes us look pretty bad.
Maybe she just hasn’t dated the right black man yet. Even if she truly feels this way, I wish she would have kept this private and not made this a public statement. Black men and women must protect each other and their images.
