It DO Matter If You're Black Or White!

OneWiseWoman visited her public library yesterday. She used one of their computers and tried to leave a comment on Yahoo Sports...lo and behold! She was actually able to sign in and register her remark! After a couple of hours, she returned home and tried to perform the very simple task on her home computer...well, the Comedy Of Errors appeared yet again! Well, now she knows for sure that the geniuses controlling the yahoo sports comments sections have blocked comments from her personal computer. While she has been unceremoniously dumped, the proud KKK supporters' comments continue to be welcomed with open arms! Now, the "good news": She is not alone! Several persons of colour have reported almost identical experiences; one lady was banned from a particular site just for sending a complaint about some crude remarks from bigots! All hail the land of opportunity!

No Entry! Access Denied!

For the last 4 or 5 days, I have been unable to register my comments under Yahoo Sports. Everytime I try to sign in, I get the following error message:

"Sorry, Bad Request.

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.

Please check the URL for proper spelling and capitalization. If you're having trouble locating a destination on Yahoo!, try visiting theYahoo! home page or look through a list of Yahoo!'s online services. Also, you may find what you're looking for if you try searching below."

I've repeatedly tried, without success, to rectify this "error". I'm still able to access my Yahoo email and leave comments under all sections of Yahoo other than Sports. I don't know if this is a genuine flaw in the system, or Yahoo Sports has found a new & creative way of banning my comments. I see comments galore flowing in from other sources! I'm currently registering my comments under MSN Sports.

Here's another one the "Fair and Balanced" Foxes of Yahoo Sports refuse to publish! My banned comments appear in Bold, after the comments that inspired it (in proper order):

Victoria: Was does Yahoo permit such nastiness on their comments. It was obvious, yahoo stopped all comments during the US Open because of the Williams sisters. Why do you allow people to viciously attack Maria and others when the commenters don't seem to care about the sport, but only to diminish a woman's character and ability.
I watched the match and both players were playing well. At the time of the real injury, Maria was on serve and leading 40-15 when she twisted her ankle as she came down from the serve. Most of the negative commenters probably don't really play tennis, but get some perverse satisfaction from demeaning others especially the women tennis players.

Me (OneWiseWoman): Victoria, I agree some of the remarks against Sharapova are mean & unfair, but they still aren't comparable to the dehumanising garbage that certain creatures keep posting about the Williams Sisters! Even under articles that bear no mention of Venus or Serena, they've been called gorillas, men in drag, ugly ghetto-trash etc.! Their parents have often gratuitously been humiliated & some losers have openly expressed wishes for severe injuries and even the deaths of Serena & Venus! Besides, it's not solely against the women; young, successful & attractive male stars like Rafa & Nole have been subjected to ridiculous accusations of steroid use & of faking injuries too.

Boowhooo: IMO, It's not a ridiculous accusation of "steroid" use and faking injuries.... It's a very reasonable assumption/conjecture when someone out of nowhere all the sudden is overly amazing. Sports just doesn't work like this. It's the same reason people assume Lance Armstrong is a cheat (which btw isn't ridiculous to assume he cheated)... Yet Marion/Lance never failed a test. Yet we later get info that suggests or out right proved they cheated.... Was it "ridiculous" conjecture? I think it's a bit gossipy yes. If you believe in the integrity of sport, you need to always question things like this. Or just be status quo and believe the sport is clean. I for one don't believe for a second that the tennis tour is clean (it may not be overly rampant, that part I can't determine). No sport is unscathed by drugs and PEDs, and tennis will eventually be shown to be no exception.

We don't need to discuss faking injuries, because it happens.

As much as people love to put verbal insults to V&S as somehow special (aka racism victim) as opposed to anyone else being victimized verbally is somehow "better" or "aren't comparable". I think you need to reassess your thinking on this matter. Flamers/Haters/Detractors or whatever you want to call them, will use whatever words/phrases that they know will get a rise outta people. With V&S it's "gorilla/men/etc..." with sharapova it's other terms typically that's she a dumb blonde good for "doing".... The bottom line is, both insults are equally degrading and classifying one as somehow worse, is what I find ridiculous. There are no "special victims" as neither are acceptable behaviors. And after the US Open and Serena's own words, she needs no defense as she's guilty or racist behavior herself.

Here's The One By Me (OneWiseWoman) That's Apparently Too Controversial To Be Published:
Neither Rafa nor Nole came "out of nowhere all the sudden" as you put it! They were both young, talented & ambitious players who worked very hard to reach such heights of glory! There's just as much reason to suspect Roger Federer of taking unfair advantage as there is to point fingers at Nadal or Djokovic! Lance Armstrong??!! Everybody around him (friend & foe) is accusing him of taking steroids; a lot of his teammates claimed to have taken PEDs with him! Nobody's said anything of the kind against Nole or Rafa! If there's reason enough to accuse these 2 young tennis stars, then NBA's Dirk Nowitzki should be penalised immediately! In a physically demanding sport like NBA basketball, the generally soft German put up his career-best performances at the ripe old age of 33!!!! What could be more suspicious?! Of course, taking steroids as well as faking injuries happen, but to constantly accuse people without an iota of evidence against them is jealous & juvenile behaviour!
As regards the criticism against the women, calling a woman a dumb blonde & calling 2 sisters male gorillas with huge penises aren't one and the same thing! Serena's behaviour is often very rude, but racism?! When has she said anything against anybody's race? If she had called the Asian lady she had screamed at a couple of years ago a gook, or had referred to the white lady she fought with earlier his year a cracker/honky, then I would've concurred with your charge of racism against her! Her rude behaviour is a nasty habit she unfortunately shares with a whole lot of white male tennis legends like John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi etc., and more recently with Andy Roddick & his "I don't speak French, dumbass!"-buddy Mardy Fish! There's no doubt about the fact that the vicious insults hurled at the Williams Sisters are racially-motivated!

Hello Stephen From Yahoo Sports!

OK, Yahoo Sports (Tennis) is banning me again at a highly inopportune moment! So, what's new?! Anyhoo, now to move on to the relevant details:

Article in discussion posted on Tue Aug 16 12:36pm EDT. Title: Video: Roddick on why tennis needs to be more like NFL, WWE (Busted Racquet).
Web address: http://sports.yahoo.com/tennis/blog/busted_racquet/post/Video-Roddick-on-why-tennis-needs-to-be-more-li?urn=ten-wp2551

In response to my comment under the article, expressing the view that black athletes are treated with less repect than their white counterparts (actually, I stated that this was a fact), Stephen wrote:

"Tell me, Wise Woman, what facts are those? Lay them out for me, please.

Because at the moment, all I see from you is incediary (read: hate) speech, with nothing to support your ridiculous accusations. Of course, this is typical of racists who seek only to further their hateful agenda as opposed to seeking rational discourse."

Now, for some unknown (?) reason, Yahoo stubbornly refuses to publish my reply to Stephen's query! So, here it is:
Are you serious, Stephen?! Have you not seen the innumerable dehumanising comments about the Williams sisters under every tennis article (often under articles that bear no mention of the ladies in discussion!)? When are white athletes referred to as gorillas? When are white players' parents mocked & denigrated the way the Williams sisters' mom and dad are? Why aren't white sports stars' achievements repeatedly ridiculed by unproven accusations of steroid use? In fact, I was first the one to respond in kind and hurl some of these above-mentioned insults right back at white athletes; I was immediately bombarded with myriad charges of racism! I give them a taste of their own medicine, and they lash out at me and label me a racist! However, these same folks have no qualms about giving supportive Thumbs Ups to to the crude remarks about black athletes! I owe you an apology, Stephen: I cannot lay out all the facts as you've requested! For a comprehensive list of all the ignominy heaped upon black stars, I'll have to write a huge book!!!!

Comments about Venus & Serena Williams that Yahoo Sports (Tennis) considers worthy of publication:

"HGH is a helluva drug."

"Dear Serena and Venus:
Please hurry back to tennis! We need you!
Signed,
A concerned pharmaceutical shareholder."

"They DON'T look well - or good for that matter - and hopefully they don't show their ugly asses at French open."

"The French Open? THEY'LL GET THEIR ASSES KICKED!! I love watching those cow-apes trying to slide on clay. It's hilarious. On second thought, DO play the French Open, williams brothers....it'll provide me with entertainment as I watch you lose."

"lets hear it for the boys, lets give the boys a haaannd!!! Their careers are basically over."

My supposedly obnoxiously offensive remark in response to Michael's comment ("Where are the racists going to comment when these talented young ladies retire? Oh well, there's always basketball."):

"Not to fear, Michael. The melanin-deprived megalomaniacs will always have convenient targets for venting frustrations arising out of their own impotence. US Sports will be a joke without the contribution of African-Americans! Basketball won't be their only solace after the Williams Sisters retire; just try to imagine America participating in Olympics 2012 without black athletes!!!! BTW, those supposedly human male specimens repeatedly referring to Venus & Serena as men, themselves look nearly as masculine as Clay Aiken in drag!"

I sincerely apologise, friends! What was I thinking?! Writing such utter filth after all those classy, intellectually-stimulating remarks by the geniuses!!!!

Sticks and Stones?

NBA superstar Kobe Bryant called referee Bennie Adams a "Faggot" following both a personal and technical foul call that didn't go Kobe's way on Tuesday night:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Gay-rights-group-complains-as-Kobe-is-caught-usi?urn=nba-wp1277

Here's the comment of mine that Yahoo! Sports, NBA, refuses to publish, although it's fine with publishing gay-bashing remarks of certain bigots:

Well, since the actual article on Kobe's 6-letter "F" word doesn't provide space for comments, I'll post my thoughts here. First of all, I've always hated Kobe Bryant's behaviour; he's the best basketball player on the planet, but he's rude, foul-mouthed and disgustingly arrogant! The slur was obviously the worst part of the misbehaviour from yesterday, but the aggressive shoving of his teammate Joe Smith's friendly, fist-bump-ready extended hand came pretty close! Not to mention the whining & tantrums that earned him the technical foul in the first place! Now, if Kobe & his supporters think it's fine to use such language, then they should remain calm if some referee or white player from the opposition calls Kobe the "N" word in the next game! Kobe Bryant gets away with a whole lot of ugly outbursts that would've assured dire consequences for some of his colleagues....for instance, how do you the league would've reacted had Dwight Howard exhibited the same pattern of gross behaviour that Kobe displayed on-court yesterday??!! Having said that, I'd like to add that much worse behaviour is tolerated in White-dominated sports like Tennis and Ice-Hockey! John McEnroe & Andre Agassi were known to hurl ugly insults at umpires and linesmen/women! NHL players fight like wild animals in the hockey arena, often with referees passively watching & commentators actually expressing glee + excitement! If some professional sportsmen are allowed to be as obnoxious as they wish to, while others are penalised for similar acts, then you can't blame people for thinking that the ones deemed worthy of punishment are the
Uppity N******S who need to be put in their place! And that, my friends, is prejudice & unfair discrimination!

Article Heading: "Ill and Injured Roddick falls in Ericsson opener"

Now, my responses:
The text in Red isn't being published; the 1st section is appearing at present, but might disappear any moment!

“ 'I have to get some stuff looked at,' a wheezy Roddick said". Yeah, first get your head examined! "Roddick said the way he felt, he wasn’t surprised to lose. 'I didn’t feel very optimistic throughout the day,' " Seems like you've been feeling "that way" for most of your career, Rod-Dick! Kudos to the reporters for always faithfully backing Sore-Loser Androgynous Rod-Dick; after all these lame excuses, the article says "Roddick began limping at the end of the match and said he also had an injury, but he declined to elaborate."!!!! Had Serena or Venus Williams dared to make the same remarks, well....Need I say more??!!
“It’s deep in the chest,” he said. “It’s not even so much nasally or throat or anything like that. It’s just when I laugh, I start sounding like a car trying to start.”....After ALL THAT, the reporters insist that Roddick didn't want to elaborate of any of this!!!! Such comments by the Williams Sisters would've been promptly followed by harsh criticism of their whining, a few prayers for their health conditions to worsen, and, of course, rude criticism of their parents & racial heritage! The hypocrisy & double-standards are simply mind-boggling!

Update

After several attempts, my post from yesterday was published on Yahoo Sports! Maybe creating this blog has helped in getting my voice heard.

Here I Come Again....

Yahoo Sports (Tennis) has decided to ban me again! They published my original post, but refuse to allow me to respond to my critics or my supporters. Hence, doing the needful here:

In response to deluded folks of a particular hue (or rather the lack of it) constantly declaring that the melanin-deprived female tennis players are always pleasing to the eye, while those blessed with melanin are ugly, I confidently wrote that in my opinion the exact opposite is the truth! I criticised the physical appearances of those megalomaniacs and lauded the pulchritude of some members of the "colourful" group. I received a couple of responses to my comment, but am being denied the right to relay my thoughts regarding those responses. Here are the replies to my original note, followed by my forbidden retort & acknowledgement:

1) John T says: Gee, guess the rest of the world forgot that there is only one standard of beauty and you own the rights to it. Get OVER yourself. By the way, what was the last beauty pageant *you* won?(crickets)
Exactly.

My "censored" response: John T, I'd love to discuss my own dazzling beauty in vivid detail, but a character flaw of mine prevents me from doing so. You see, I'm humble to a fault!

2) Nightwing69 says: YOU ROCK, OneWiseWoman!

My "censored" response: Thanks, Nightwing69. The Yahoo Sports guys are often banning this unassuming "rock"-star, though; hence the dire need for this blog!

Golden Words HAVE TO BE Repeated!

OK, here we go! Yahoo Sports (Tennis) website....one of the primary offenders! They flatly refuse to publish the following post of mine. Other posts keep streaming in, though, and in comparison to some of the inane comments, mine sounds almost Shakespearean in quality! Also, other sites are posting my messages, hence the fault definitely doesn't lie with my connection. The article in discussion bears the heading:

"INTERVIEW-Tennis-Clijsters to play on for maximum two years"

The subject in discussion: Australian Open champion Kim Clijsters plans to play on for a maximum two years following her remarkable run of success since returning to the tour in 2009 after taking time out to have a baby.

Here's my "offensive" post that those sanctimonious upholders of virtue deem unprintable. Nothing great, but a gem in comparison with some of the obtuse remarks that ARE deemed worthy:

"I have mixed feelings about this matter. While I totally respect Kim Clijsters's decision to plan her own future, I also feel that this doesn't reflect too well on professional women. It's not just sports....you hear complaints about women from a variety of professions simply quitting for family or personal reasons upon reaching their peaks in their respective fields! When your talent is noticed by your experienced superiors and you are groomed for greater responsibilities & success, then it's natural for your bosses to expect serious dedication to your job. I deplore sexism & prejudice against women, but have to acknowledge that when mentors repeatedly find their male proteges displaying far greater ambition & devotion to their professions than their female counterparts, they are bound to prefer the former to the latter! These days women get annoyed if they are asked about their future family & marriage plans during interviews for highly demanding jobs. However, in all fairness, from the boss's perspective, it's necessary to determine if the talented & qualified person they are planning on training & preparing for a demanding career is serious about dedicating his/her life to it! Can you imagine the waste of time & effort (not to mention the setbacks to the department itself) if your golden girl, about to be named your honoured successor, suddenly decides to bid adieu to her career because she'd rather focus on a hubby + cute little babies??!!"

Pride And Prejudice!

Hello Everybody!  The heading to this post was inspired by my own sense of pride & self respect in order to combat some other people's sneaky & obnoxious prejudice! I regularly submit my posts to some web-sites that invite public comments. What I have recently noticed is that some of these sites, despite their ostentatious display of open-armed welcome to one-and-all, in reality indulge in highly discriminatory practices! You see, à la George Orwell's "Animal Farm", their unabashed and proud philosophy seems to be “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” They merrily publish all kinds of crude & offensive remarks from certain favoured groups of people, while hypocritically banning much milder responses from certain other groups of humans whom they don't deem worthy! Being a proud member of this supposedly "unworthy" group, I have no choice but to explore other avenues to make sure that my voice is heard! Hence, this blog. From this day onwards, whenever my voice is stifled by these phony purveyors of free speech, I'll resort to accessing this blog to reach my fellow humans. Thank you very much and see you soon....