My father used to play tennis at college & I remember watching tennis with him as a kid & him explaining what the scores (deuces & sets) mean. It is now strange to me that tennis has racist undertones. I mean, the only known black tennis player in South Africa is wheelchair tennis player Lucas Sithole. In a majority black country, this can't be. It's been 30 years since 1994, surely ONE black tennis player from Durban could've made it? We can't claim Joe-Wilfried Tsonga, he's not Tsonga or South African. I personally never played tennis, the only thing similar to tennis I've ever played is volleyball & I was fairly good at that but couldn't care to take volleyball up seriously. Yes, Serena & Venus Williams have mentioned racism in tennis but didn't really think it was that deep. But the question is "Does the black community really need a black male tennis player?" I don't think we do. Sure, my black male tennis star player is my father & his Slazenger tennis racket... but if we're going to be victims of racism in what is seen as a "world game", we may as well not play it & remove it from our communities & media. We can stick to badminton & volleyball in Africa.
I've heard some people quoting from King Shaka's praises claiming that he was "like the sun" therefore light-skinned. But I'd like to ask how comparisons with the sun equate with being light-skinned? If anything, if King Shaka was light-skinned, they'd compare him to something terrestrial like the colour of a cow hide, wood or other object because very few extraterrestrial objects have the colour of any human skin. Even white people are called "ondlebe zikhanya ilanga" ('those who have translucent ears") & not "abakhanya okwelanga" ("those who shine like the sun"). King Shaka's mother was from Elangeni & there is the Langa clan in KZN, all of them are black with many being exceptionally dark-skinned so I don't think the comparisons comparing King Shaka with the sun have anything to do with his complexion. Even the whites who first saw him & drew him wrote that he was dark & fairly tall. I also don...
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