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My take on the Serena Williams "situation"

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Dawn   Sep 14th 2009, 2:59pm
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I just finished watching the video of Serena Williams' meltdown, and without question she was dead wrong. Now I've gotten that out of the way, I want to address what really disappoineted me, the comments that accompanied the video. I understand people have the right to say what they want, and they have every right to express their opinion. I dig that, I'm down with that,  in fact, I welcome it. But what do they say when a baseball player loses his composure, and is throwing baseball bats, and bases, and is in the face of an umpire screaming? Does anyone call for that player's head? Are they suspended? Or worse, does anyone start throwing around words like "ghetto"? My point isn't to defend what she did, or who she is as a person, because I don't know her personally. My beef is this firestorm of judgement and condemnation that has followed. People are so quick to rush to judgmet, and so reluctant to practice forgiveness. While she hasn't apologized, I doubt it would do much good if she did. Outcasting others makes some people feel better about themselves, and forgiveness is a virtue with sometimes a price too high. . A certain football player lost millions of dollars and spent time in jail for what he did. He was even blacklisted professionally BEFORE he was convicted of any crime. He has since apologized for his actions. Has he recieved much forgiveness? I wish I could say he has but that's not the case. Then again I think the protesters are just happy to have something to do on Sundays. On the same note another Super Bowl winning football player was accused of rape, and I don't think I heard too much about that at all. All the while Tupac turnin in his grave, and  Mike Tyson is fuming in the living room of his 1500 sq ft mansion. In the end this woman is human. She was losing, she wasn't playing her best, and she knew it. The lashing out at the line coach was an out for her. And what's with throwing kids into the mix, as far as her moral obligation to set an example on how to behave? I was under the impression that was the parent's job. Apparently Charles Barkley and Serena Williams aren't role models. I'm guilty of poor on-court conduct myself, being thrown out of a basketball game after a touch foul, when I was practically clotheslined by my defender on the previous play. My team still won, I had 18 points 9 assists and 4 steals, and nobody ever called me "ghetto".

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peteregan
Virtually everyone who competes for long enough eventually loses his or her composure. I enjoy reading the comments of lame hypocrites who will never accomplish anything significant enough to merit criticism from others.
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