FOR THE second time in a month, Australian cartoonist Mark Knight of Melbourne’s Herald Sun is coming under fire for how he renders black people. In the new cartoon, which mocks the heated exchanges between runner-up Serena Williams and chair umpire Carlos Ramos, Knight depicts the 23-time Grand Slam champion as a pacifier-sucking young child throwing a tantrum. pic.twitter.com/B1HXhnzFAN — Tony Khan (@anthonypermal) September 10, 2018I’m not going to even RT that image the cartoonist did of Serena Williams, and even of Naomi Osaka. — Erin Ashley Simon (@erinasimon) September 10, 2018Shame on racist Mark Knight the cartoonist for Melbourne’s Herald Sun. Read more:Column: At U.S. Open, power of Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka is overshadowed by an umpire’s power play‘He did change the course of the match’: Novak Djokovic sides with Serena Williams in U.S. Open incident

Source: Washington Post September 10, 2018 17:03 UTC