*Serena Williams has taken to Facebook to voice her fears about police violence, writing on Facebook: “I won’t be silent,’ about what could easily happen to a family member just as it did to many other unarmed blacks who have been gunned down by trigger-happy cops.
In Tuesday’s Facebook post, Williams wrote that she had asked her 18-year-old nephew to drive her somewhere and when she saw a police car she “remembered that horrible video of the woman in the car when a cop shot her boyfriend.”
She was referring to the July 6 fatal shooting of Philando Castile, whose girlfriend live-streamed the deadly confrontation with police in St Paul, Minnesota.
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The drive with her nephew also left Serena feeling guilty for not getting behind the wheel herself.
“I would never forgive myself if something happened to my nephew,” Williams wrote. “He’s so innocent. So were all ‘the others.'”
“I am a total believer that not ‘everyone’ is bad It is just the ones that are ignorant, afraid, uneducated, and insensitive that is affecting millions and millions of lives.”
She referenced other police-involved shootings, writing, “Have we not gone through enough, opened so many doors, impacted billions of lives?”
Serena is the latest star to join a growing movement of athletes who are speaking out about how racism and police brutality go hand-in-hand and affect their lives.
“Why did I have to think about this in 2016?” she wrote on Facebook. “Have we not gone through enough, opened so many doors, impacted billions of lives? But I realized we must stride on – for it’s not how far we have come but how much further still we have to go.”
Williams ended her post with a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “There comes a time when silence is betrayal”.
