I researched this because it really bothered me and this is what I found.
Comments: A December 7, 2004 bulletin from The Electronic Urban Report confirmed the obvious: this purported "interview" with black tennis star Serena Williams is a hoax. "Ms. Williams has conducted no such interview," the report said. Here is her quoted response:
"Words cannot express how upset I am to find out that someone has deliberately attempted to ruin my reputation and image," says Ms. Williams. "I would never, ever, under any circumstance, be so disrespectful. Whoever decided to write this garbage does not know Serena Williams. It is not my thinking nor my being. I want to find out who is behind this, and have them prosecuted within the fullest extent of the law. I am hoping that there will be more policing over the Internet, in order to find out immediately the origin of this kind of treachery. No one deserves to be humiliated and defamed this way."
The earliest copy of the hoax received here was dated December 2. No source was cited, nor was I able to locate the text in any published source.
Serena plans to take legal actionESPN.com news services
Serena Williams issued a statement Wednesday with harsh words about an interview she said she never gave that was transmitted to the public via the Internet.
"Words cannot express how upset I am to find out that someone has deliberately attempted to ruin my reputation and image," Williams' statement said. "I would never, ever, under any circumstance, be so disrespectful."
The e-mailed interview, released earlier this week, contained racist and homosexual insinuations about Williams' dating preferences and black men. It has been repeated in message boards and on radio broadcasts, according to Williams' agent.
"Whoever decided to write this garbage does not know Serena Williams," Williams stated.
Statements disparaging black men as unworthy mates and the difficulties encountered by successful black females in dating black men are among those attributed to Williams in the disputed interview.
"It is not my thinking nor my being. I want to find out who is behind this, and have them prosecuted within the fullest extent of the law. I am hoping that there will be more policing over the Internet, in order to find out immediately the origin of this kind of treachery. No one deserves to be humiliated and defamed this way."
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