Last month we shared footage of Caroline Wozniacki imitating Serena Williams by stuffing her bra & butt with towels and playing tennis. Some saw it as racist and others saw it as harmless and in good fun. Serena never commented on the video…until now.
Check out what she had to say…
According to Douglas Robson at USA TODAY:
Whoopi Goldberg brought up the video on the TV program The View. Innocent or not, some saw it as racist. How does Williams feel? In an e-mail, the 15-time major winner said she saw no ill intent from Wozniacki.
“I know Caro and I would call her my friend and I don’t think she (meant) anything racist by it,” she wrote from the island of Mauritius off the coast of Africa, where she is training in preparation for the Australia swing.
Williams explained that she hadn’t seen the widely viewed video clip and didn’t understand why it suddenly took on racist tones when others had done it before. “(Roddick) and (Djokovic) do it all the time and Caro does (it) and now it’s racist.??” she wrote.
Williams said in these matters she prefers to stay above the fray. “At the end of the day I spend my time focused on things to become better and not bring me down,” she continued. Williams, however, hinted that while she was not personally bothered if others are then Wozniacki might at least be guilty of bad taste.
“I must add if people feel this way she should take reason and do something different next time,” she concluded, punctuating her sentence with a smiley emoticon.
