“Brittney Cooper: "Of course it is. I don't care if they are 'pals' on the tour. Every Black Girl who has been a white person's "African American friend" knows what that sh*t means. Let me count the ways she might have impersonated Serena. Wear a tennis outfit with flashy colors (bright green, bright pink, all black), put on some big flashy earrings with big hair, get your serve up past 125, hit record numbers of aces in match. Hell, win double digits in Grand Slams. But mocking her through T&A in whiteface = #racism. Scot Nakagawa: This is just ridiculous. To parody the body of someone who has so often been the target of racist rants (comparing her with a gorilla, for instance, while remarking on how black women just are naturally ugly), and criticism and exoticization in general of her curves is more than ignorant. She's done it twice to much criticism now. I'm guessing it's just willful racism or at least prideful ignorance. Time to shut that sh*t down, Stella McCartney. Is this who you want as a brand ambassador?”

—Crunk Feminist Collective’s Brittney Cooper and Racialicious Crush of the Week Scot Nakagawa succinctly answering Huffington Post’s question of whether tennis player Caroline Wozniacki’s imitiation of Serena Williams was racist or not.
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