Back in the day you could throw as many punches as you wanted at an African American female and have no repercussions whatsoever. Easy targets.
Like Elizabeth Eckford, who was surrounded by a howling mob when she tried to integrate Little Rock High School in 1957. Those were the days! Anyone could just step right up to a brown-skinned person and have at it. You certainly wouldn't hear her speak up and defend herself like Serena Williams did, talking about, "As an African American I'm not going to stand for it." Excuse me? Wouldn't this be what we used to call uppity?
Yes, Serena is going up and up like a golden eagle. And her rising is not preventing all the rest of us from taking to the sky.
Why don't we join her, high above the Redwood Forest.
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