Serena's Black Excellence comes at a vital time for America
July 10, 2016 18:05
The simple forehand volley caromed into the open court and the champion tumbled gently backward into the grass; the coup de grace as elementary as the three service winners that preceded it.
Serena Williams was the Wimbledon champion for a seventh time with a straight-sets win over Angelique Kerber -- a record-tying 22nd major championship all but ending the argument over whether she is best there has ever been.
The greatest American sports tale of our time remains a work in progress: a black female Jehovah's Witness from Compton who entered an arena populated almost exclusively by white women from more advantaged backgrounds and persevered in the face of racism, family tragedy, injuries and illness to dominate three separate eras of challengers and rewrite the history books of a sport not desperately keen to be revised.
And at a moment in America where the basic value of black lives has been violently called into question, Serena's latest showcase of unapologetic Black Excellence could not have come at a more vital time.
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