An old doctor with Boris Karloff eyebrows once injected my eye with cocaine prior to giving me another eyeball injection of steroids. As he advanced, syringe full of cocaine in hand, wiry gray eyebrow hairs wiggling, he announced with what was to me rather alarming jubilance, "Here comes the real Coca Cola!"…

Listen, I'm not here to ruin anyone's good time...

So the crowd didn't like the one sister defaulting to the other and showed that displeasure by screaming racist slurs at them and their family? Hmm, sure that's it.

Your argument is incomplete. By IW 2001 they had already played each other professionally 5 times, including Wimbledon semi-final; playing each other wasn't a problem for them or their father. Also, Venus withdrew hours before the match, but match officials decided to announce it only four minutes before the match. An…

I've been searching Deadspin all damn day for this article. Thank you! At least Jez is covering Serena, who's just, you know, one of the best and most dominant athletes in the world right now. Would be super appropriate for a sports blog to cover. I guess not.

That doesn't excuse the virulent racism.

I love it when people try to defend their ignorant positions. There is no way in the era we live in, that a person can justify racial slurs. It is just that straightforward.

Interesting.

It is with that love in mind, and a new understanding of the true meaning of forgiveness, that I will proudly return to Indian Wells in 2015

Say "word"; and then say it again! Williams is the greatest of all time in my opinion. She is inarguably one of the greatest, no doubt about it.

I'm fortunate to be at a point in my career where I have nothing to prove.

I just never get how they can hate on someone being good at something just because of their skin color or ideology or whatever else that's different. The Williams sisters are amazing at this sport and it stuns me that apparently that's not enough for people to at least be cordial to them.

C-Walk all over 'em Serena

People that still hate on the Williams sisters are the definition of white tears.

"Either they feel like it's a pointless time-suck full of bad information and poorly informed friends, or they have an objection to the company behind the network. "

You sound like you'd be really fun at a party.

Somehow I'm not at all surprised that this happened in Portland. The environment there seems ripe for shady macktivism, because it seems like there's a lot of "Look how activist I am!"-type display behavior in general.

Sometimes it helps to look at the same type of scenario with a non-sexual action:

I don't mean to brag, but I don't have to have sex with unconscious people to have sex.