That’s right. Lewis Hamilton’s dad too. Loving father that did what he could to produce a superhero, the rest is history. When we do this (“the Joe Jackson effect”) there is often backlash. No one complains when someone from eastern Europe or Russia moves up in the women’s ranks, go read those stories...

It still seems like the tennis community is awful to them.

I legit cleared my browser history for 1 hour after I watched this. I wasn’t ready. 

I remember seeing that years ago! I feel some kind of way when I hear commentators/players who were terrible to them back in the day trying to backtrack now. Richard Williams did what he had to do and I’ve always respected him for that.

That’s almost NSFW...

Through all of Richard Williams’ “extra curricular” activities, I don’t recall Serena or Venus saying a cross word about him in public. 

A cheer squad is no place to have the wrong people supporting you.

There’s a long tradition of naming streets in honor of a certain ethnic hero in the neighborhoods where that ethnicity prevails. San Francisco put its Columbus Avenue in North Beach, which is the traditional Italian district. (The adoption of Columbus Day as a holiday was largely done as a sop to emerging…

You tell them the truth so they know what type of world to expect growing up. If you let the history books teach them about this time, they’ll end up thinking slavery wasn’t that bad in the US, as that text book Texas was trying to use a few years back showed (October 2015). You teach them how to act around police and…

It’s the exact opposite of what you said. If Black kids don’t know their real history, their entire history is that they were bought, sold, abused, and poor. 

Thank you for this. These are the kinds of stories we should be learning and teaching in school.

This sounds like the history of every African American’s ancestors. These are the stories we are taught when we are young (at least I was). This relative invented this and it was stolen. This relative had this land, and it was stolen. This person had a cross burnt on their yard for helping people register to vote. As…

Of course he had a negative effect on her. But did he cause her death by overdose years later? No. I think it’s strange that people act like Bobby, at least 7 years younger, must have introduced Whitney to drugs and then I guess forced them on her? She had been dabbling since she was younger. I tend to think she…

Close the comments down; you’ve won the internet for the evening.

I'm following Janelle Hill wherever she goes.

You're using facts instead of just throwing adjectives around? How rude! 

McConnell’s face. I will forgive a lot for what he did to McConnell’s face.

She’s trash. Horrible.

I was going to say “Pickled Eggs,” but pigs’ feet works, too. 

Starred for the Boss Hogg reference. Pure gold.