MELBOURNE, Australia — A cartoon of Serena Williams that has been widely condemned as a racist depiction of the tennis great has been partially reprinted on the front page of the Melbourne-based newspaper that initially published it. “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,” the paper said on its front page. Williams has won the Australian Open singles title seven times at Melbourne Park, including in 2017 when she was pregnant. The PC brigade are way off the mark … again.”This isn’t the first time a cartoon in a News Corp. newspaper has drawn allegations of racism. Australian writer Maxine Beneba Clarke said she believed the front page demonstrated a “misunderstanding” of the criticism levelled at the cartoon.

Source: National Post September 12, 2018 06:08 UTC