Serena Williams: ‘I won’t be silent’ on Police Violence and Minorities Any Longer


During a Facebook post this week, she demanded change while using her nephew as an example for “what if” scenarios. Apparently this post was spurred by a police officer she saw on the side of the road.

Today I asked my 18 year old nephew (to be clear he’s black) to drive me to my meetings so I can work on my phone #safteyfirst. In the distance I saw cop on the side of the road. I quickly checked to see if he was obliging by the speed limit. Than I remembered that horrible video of the woman in the car when a cop shot her boyfriend. All of this went through my mind in a matter of seconds. I even regretted not driving myself. I would never forgive myself if something happened to my nephew. He’s so innocent. So were all “the others”

I am a total believer that not “everyone” is bad It is just the ones that are ignorant, afraid, uneducated, and insensitive that is affecting millions and millions of lives.

Why did I have to think about this in 2016? Have we not gone through enough, opened so many doors, impacted billions of lives? But I realized we must stride on- for it’s not how far we have come but how much further still we have to go.

I than wondered than have I spoken up? I had to take a look at me. What about my nephews? What if I have a son and what about my daughters?
As Dr. Martin Luther King said ” There comes a time when silence is betrayal”.

I
Won’t
Be
Silent
Serena

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She does claim to be a believer in the fact that not “everyone” is bad. Then again, the categories she chose to label those who aren’t is very broad. And like it was mentioned above, the moment you start using labels like that, it becomes nearly impossible to have an open dialogue with people. She went on to quote Martin Luther King Jr. which is all good and fine, but if you look at this modern “Civil Rights” movement, they’ve strayed so far from Martin Luther King Jr’s way of thinking that this is hardly a fight for equality and reform as much as it’s become a fight for superiority.



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