Ben Shelton REFUSES to Engage in Racial Storyline

Ben Shelton, who's been the picture of class. He's biracial. His mom is white. His dad is black. It's interesting. He has a sister who's whiter than I am, and he looks mixed race. I'm going someplace with this. He, when he won the semis last week, he gets questioned by this former tennis player, now commentator, Chris Eubanks, who is black, which is also relevant to what's about to happen here, who has to, has to inject race into the victory. And Ben Shelton, to his credit, didn't go there. Watch. 2003, since the last time an American man won this title, but it's been since 1972 that a black man has played in the final of the U.S. Open, and it was Arthur Ashe. Sunday, you will step foot on the, on Arthur Ashe Stadium, looking to take your very first Grand Slam title. When you hear that, what goes through your mind as you prepare for Sunday? Yeah, it's a lot of emotion. My dad, my mom has sacrificed a lot for me to be in this position today. My, my dad lost his mom earlier this year, and she's the reason that he was able to play tennis. This one is for her, and I'm gonna need you guys on Sunday to bring the energy. Let's do this for the USA. And one more thing, and one more thing, it's a, it's a difficult day to be out here playing. My thoughts and prayers go out to all the families who are impacted by 9-11. Picture of class. Good for him. Not everything has to be about race, and I would submit to you that this Eubanks character is working out his own issues on all of us, Ben Shelton and everyone in attendance there, and shame on him. Just stop. If Ben Shelton wants to play the race card and raise that, or if you, in writing up the Ben Shelton win, want to write about that, but that's the question you ask him after he wins the semifinals as this young 22-year-old whippersnapper going into the finals of the US Open. That's where you want to take him? Piss off. And good for Ben Shelton for seeing it. He clocked it, and he didn't do it. And can I tell you, this reminded me of Sage Steele, who has the same racial makeup in her family as Ben Shelton. Her dad is black, her mom is white, and she got in trouble at ESPN when she was there. Thank God she no longer is, because she didn't understand why Obama considers himself a black man, why he would want to say that in a way that she thought would alienate him from his white parent, his mom. Sage has said, and I'm not going to say it as articulately as Sage does, but she's made the point that, like, I never want to really sort of say I'm black or I'm white because I feel like it's going to divide me from the one parent who isn't that thing. So, you know, she's mixed race. I don't think she really wants to talk about her race at all. And I guarantee you, if Sage does well, either playing athletics or covering athletics or just as a political commentator now, and somebody wants to compliment her on doing that, she certainly doesn't want you to bring up her damn race and saying, what does it feel like to be this race and to do that thing? My God, stop. That in and of itself feels racist in the way of you're focusing on somebody's race as opposed to their accomplishments. That's for Ben Shelton to do. If he wants to bring it up or his coach pulls you aside and says, why don't you ask this? That's one thing, but that's not what happened here. This is this guy working out his agenda. Shame on him. Go Ben. And I personally look forward to years more of Ben Shelton dominating. This wasn't his time. He's still very young. He played two years at the university of Florida not long ago. I mean, can you imagine? I wish I could have seen some of those matches, but he's going to be around, I think for a very long time and winning a lot of trophies, just as his very classy opponent, Sasha Zverev said. Then there's Taylor Townsend. She won, I think it was at women's doubles. And she had this to say after the win. I also just take a lot of pride in this being a black woman here. It's two black women here in this final. There are two black men in the semifinals. This is a phenomenal time for tennis, for inspiration, for representation. Chanda, it means a lot for you to be standing here as well because you paved the way for us as well. So thank you. This is a phenomenal time for tennis and it's just getting started. Okay. It's better than having the announcer shove it in your face. Just FYI, you're, you're nowhere near the first black woman to dominate tennis. Obviously Serena and Williams and Venus Williams are the OGs who completely dominated. And to this day, good luck watching a tennis match without seeing four commercials featuring one or both of them, especially Serena. Okay. Like Coco Gauff, same. She's a star. She's all over the ads. Like it's really not that rare to see a black person in the finals of a major, but you do you. The real problem with Taylor Townsend is she's been wearing a patch on her arm or someplace. I don't And is very proud of his association with her. And she's very proud of her association with him. And Benjamin Crump is still out there pushing race hoax lies like that. Michael Brown was murdered by police, which isn't true. Even according to Barack Obama's DOJ run by Eric Holder an investigation that was based the conclusion that it wasn't murder that Michael Brown was in process of attacking that officer based on the eyewitness testimony of five black people, black president, black ag five black eyewitnesses say in that case, it was the black man aggressing on the white officer and there's DNA on the car to substantiate as well. But we're still getting that kind of a lie pushed by Megan Rapinoe just today is in the news for that and by Ben Crump. So I would reconsider the patch, especially if you want to be taken seriously as any sort of a leader in tennis, which is known for its elegance, its reserve, its class, and really not for its politics, which generally stay off the court and out of the matches. None of us wants to hear it. We are there for an athletic event. Or just leave a comment below, but join the community by becoming a subscriber. We really, really value your input and your support. 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