Why in the world would Serena Williams, of all people, think it is necessary or appropriate to engage in public race-baiting? The woman is rich and famous, and became a national idol playing a sport that has an overwhelmingly white fan base. Never mind: Serena was triggered when she encountered a decorative cotton plant (reportedly fake) in an un-named luxury hotel. The retired women’s tennis legend, now 43, took a video of the vase holding a cotton plant on a table in the hallway, and asked her Instagram followers, “Alright, everyone. How do we feel about cotton as decoration? Personally for me, it doesn’t feel great.”
Yeah, you’re right, Serena, the New York hotel placed a cotton plant in the hallway to slyly remind you that 150 years ago black slaves were forced to pick cotton in states hundreds of miles away. I think you should organize a boycott and start a protest organization called Cotton Plants Matter.
Williams’ complaint once again demonstrates how the constant propaganda forced on American blacks insisting that they regard all companies, institutions, entertainment, speech and cultural phenomenon with suspicion accompanied by the presumption of racism makes it nigh impossible for the United States to have racial comity or even coherence.
There is a positive sign in this stupid episode, however: a majority of Williams’ social media fans, even the black ones, told her she was out of her cotton-picking mind. Others noticed that Serena was wearing a blonde wig in her photos, which is not exactly Black is Beautiful chic.
But condign justice really struck when sleuths recalled a February 2021 profile of Williams’ home in Architectural Digest, where she boasted about displaying the “Monument for a Promise” sculpture in the foyer of the mansion where she and her husband (who is white, by the way) display various artworks. The Radcliffe Bailey piece, created in 2013, depicts a donkey carrying a trunk and standing over…wait for it!… a mound of cotton. See?
Alright, everyone. How do we feel about cotton as art? And how do we feel about gratuitous race-baiting by pampered African-American celebrities?
Ethics Alarms 
I don’t understand Serena’s concern either. Is it that cotton used as decor is racist? Or is she implying that the display of cotton in a hotel at which she was staying was racism directed solely at her? Or is cotton just evil and should banned? Do we torch cotton fields now and burn all of our cotton sheets and underwear? Do we force doctors to give up cotton balls to cover injection sites?
Or is Serena just trying to get a bunch of likes on social media and doesn’t care if they are all from lunatics?
“Or is Serena just trying to get a bunch of likes on social media and doesn’t care if they are all from lunatics?”
Precisely.
jvb
Goodness gracious. Must have been a slow day for the race baiting specialists, or is our beloved Serena competing with Simone Biles to see who is better at tarnishing their legacy post-retirement? The woke mind virus is a unique infection in that the host remains physically healthy while their self-awareness gradually deteriorates as evidenced by spasms of delusion. This is really true. You can look it up.
Have a great weekend and keep the faith…🤠
She may have to sleep on the floor in that hotel. Probably use cotton sheets. White sheets.
ARRRGHHHH!!!!
Cant use ‘cotton matters’ without a trigger warning. Might make people think of Cotton Mather, a slaver.
Was he? I did not know that!
He was, although his views on blacks and slavery were…..complicated.
I’m taking this from Wikipedia, so….
He wasn’t an abolitionist but denounced aspects of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. He paid a schoolteacher to teach blacks to read, and received black members of his congregation in his home. One of his beliefs was that blacks should be converted to Christianity, and that blacks and whites would meet as equals in Heaven.
He also wrote papers denouncing New England sailors being held in slavery in Africa.
Not a simple minded man.
Her present irrelevancy has caused her to portray her idiocy. I ma sure the sheets and towels in this upscale boutique hotel had high cotton counts. But what does she know!
True, but probably Egyptian cotton. That’s acceptable.
jvb
‘Cause Cleo tested Melanin Positive, right…?
PWS
I love the bleached blond hair/wig. I am so tired of the obligatory black women in every television commercial sporting the obligatory, intentionally unkempt, wildly growing out, mop-top hairdo. Are black women prohibited from doing anything with their hair? Of course, these hairdos only appear in television commercials. You never see them in the worldwide world.