RACISM. Serena Williams’ husband on when he “survived” the police because he was white

Serena Williams’ husband Alexis Ohanian is one of the biggest promoters of the so-called #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Alexis surprised her wife after he resigned from the board of Reddit after the company has been (often) accused of tolerating racial remarks on its social network. When leaving the board, Ohanian publicly asked the company to fill his empty seat with a black person.

However, Serena’s husband didn’t stop supporting the people of color with that gesture. Alexis has pledged to donate the future gains of his Reddit stock to “serve the black community” and he announced a $1 million donation to Colin Kaepernick’s “Know Your Rights Camp.”

When Ohanian was spared by the police because he was not black

Alexis posted a heartfelt message on social media with a story about him being found by a policeman while he was sleeping in the car because he was drunk and high. Eventually, the policeman showed compassion and even if he was even struggling to talk there were no consequences and his life went on (and rather successfully).

This situation was quite similar to Rayshard Brooks’ that instead was treated in a completely different way before everything escalated in his killing.

This was Alexis’ story

“2005, just a few months before graduation and starting @reddit, a police officer on campus found me asleep in my car, keys on the seat next to me. I was drunk with an eighth of weed in my pocket. I’d had some fun with friends that evening and when I got back to my car, I knew there was no way I was driving anywhere, so I reclined the seat and passed out.

The light of a police officer woke me up some time later, he asked me to step out of the car, so I did the best I could to stabilize my 6’5″ frame as he asked how much I’d had to drink and then asked if I was capable of driving home.

I was pretty drunk (and high), so I couldn’t say anything terribly coherent other than “No dRIvE. nO DrIVe.” and I just repeated that to answer every question until he got frustrated and asked me to call some friends to pick me up.

While we were waiting, the cop said how lucky I was that I didn’t have the keys in the ignition, even with the car off, because it would have been way worse for me. I thanked him (I think) and got home safe except for a bad hangover the next day.

For years, those friends and I would tell that story + laugh about that night… It was just a stupid college story.

#BecauseIWasWhite. I walked away + entered Y Combinator–not a jail cell…or worse. I became an entrepreneur, not a statistic. I’m grateful for that police officer’s tolerance with me + disgusted that it’s so obviously not afforded (and never been) to everyone just because of their race.”

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Serena Williams in 2020

Now ranked no.9, the American played her last match on the 8^th of February when she surrendered to Anastasija Sevastova 7-6⁵ 3-6 7-6⁴ in the Rubber 4 of the Fed Cup.

At the moment, this season Serena Williams has a 8-2 win-loss record. Serena has won 1 title in Auckland.