Kozak said:
Everything about Hewitt has to be bullshit. The Australian press focus too much on him and you get all sorts of shitty rumours.
Of course it is. I mean, I was only being facetious by my comment.
Hewitt's supposed racist slur of 2001 -- 8½ years ago I might add -- wasn't really racist. Hewitt had several a bad call from the black linesman earlier in the match, then when he got another bad call from that same linesman, he got upset and said "you look at him and you tell me what the similarity is" but people presumed he meant "tell me what the similarity is [between this black linesjudge and my black opponent; they're both black, ergo, this linesjudge is out to get me]" whereas he meant "tell me what the similarity is [between this black linesjudge and the linesjudge who gave me a bad call earlier... that's right, they're both black, ergo, they're the same person, this linesjudge is out to get me]".
And whichever version of that he
meant, it's not exactly racism. Holding the race to a different (lower) standard is racism, whereas Hewitt was at
most saying "this black judge is favoring the black tennis player". How is that racism? How is that insulting the black race? He's just saying he felt like the black judge was sticking up for the black player. If anything, that's a misguided insult to the black judge himself, based on him being a terrible judge, not based on him being black.
It's like, if the same match was played with all
black linesjudges except one was white, and that judge was giving favorable calls to the white player, I wouldn't put it past many people to feel that the
white judge was being racist.
Likewise, if we don't believe Hewitt's story, then at worst,
Hewitt thought the black judge was being racist. So it's racist to think people are racist?
