![]() ![]() The most notorious oppositional force in her career has been the umpire Mariana Alves, who made five bad calls against Serena in one match back in 2004. Zora Neale Hurston once said, "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background" the narrator uses this statement to frame the situation of Serena being a black player in an overwhelmingly white sport. At this point, Rankine places the reader in the point of view of a posh tennis-watcher: "Oh my God, she's gone crazy, you say to no one" (27). ![]() One example of this is at the 2009 Women's US Open final when Serena Williams allowed her rage to be seen. ![]() However, it can also be seen not as anger, but rather as insanity. This type of anger provides presence where erasure occurs. ![]() Therefore any real anger, such as that experienced in Section I, cannot produce sellable art, but only loneliness. The narrator explains that this is meant to uncover the expectations of commodified anger in black artists. On his YouTube channel, this YouTube artist encourages black artists to watch the Rodney King video while working to create an angrier exterior. A picture of Hennessy Youngman (aka Jayson Musson) accompanies the first page of Section II. ![]()
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