(CNN) An Australian newspaper has doubled down on a cartoon of multiple Grand Slam tennis champion Serena Williams widely denounced as racist both at home and in the US. "(It) not only exudes racist, sexist caricatures of both women, but Williams' depiction is unnecessarily sambo-like," the group said in a statement. "If the self-appointed censors of Mark Knight get their way on his Serena Williams cartoon, our new politically correct life will be very dull indeed," said the front page. On Twitter , Australian author Benjamin Law compared headlines from American newspapers that "matter-of-factly" described Knight's cartoon as racist to coverage within his country. "Embarrassing to see the Herald Sun doesn't realise defending Knight's cartoon supports the case swathes of Australian media is blind to its own racism."

Source: CNN September 11, 2018 04:29 UTC