🎾 From GQ: Leave Naomi Osaka Alone
It is depressing to witness Osaka being forced away from the game in this manner. How is it that these people chose to view this woman’s transparency with such disgust and callous indifference? When has Osaka been anything but pleasant on the tour? What reason would there ever be to not take her message as seriously as she intended? It feels targeted, as if the goal of her opposers was to stamp out her light. The scholar Moya Bailey described this as misogynoir, where Black women are specifically the aim of racist discrimination. The many ways in which it shows it’s stunning flexibility should be terrifying.
