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Twitter Users Defend Serena Williams After Critic Questioned Her Legacy Due To Her Interracial Marriage

Rapper Mike Baggz believes Williams marrying a Black man would've cemented her already iconic status even more.

December 06, 2022 at 11:40 pm

Twitter users have come out in full force to defend Serena Williams after a critic spoke out against the tennis legend. The verified Twitter user, Mike Baggz, sparked the drama after he tweeted, “Serena Williams’s legacy would (have) been even more SOLIDIFIED if she married a Black American man.”

Serena Williams’s legacy would of been even more SOLIDIFIED if she married a Black American man. pic.twitter.com/SlzOaEEr2V
— Mike Baggz (@MikeBaggz) November 30, 2022

Williams married Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, who is white, in 2017. The couple share a 5-year-old daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.

Many of Williams’ fans are now reminding the critic that her marriage doesn’t have anything to do with her legacy.

I vividly remember when she was trying to date black men were the first to bash her, disregard, and treated her like was second best but now she with someone who puts her on a pedestal and just so happens to be white and black men coming out the woodwork’s with their think pieces

— DOMSART1117 (@DOMS1117) December 1, 2022

Her legacy is solely due to her talent, and not who she married or didn't marry. pic.twitter.com/dJzY4xQ2n6

— Shauna (@shauna1187) November 30, 2022

With all due disrespect, shut up! Her legacy is not dependent upon who she chose as a partner. She’s Serena Williams. Her legacy stand on her own. You’re coming off as bitter and it’s not a good look.

— Dionne Rashay (@corporatebad_di) November 30, 2022

Serena Williams is one of the greatest and most accomplished athlete in the world ever…male or female…and you’re critiquing her legacy based on who she married?? Slow day? Come on man…

— OGToddE (@OGToddE1) November 30, 2022

This is literally the most trivial tweet that I've read all day. Serena has more than earned the recognition to be one the world's greatest athletes long before she ever met her husband. Keep that same energy for all the black male athletes that marry outside their race 🤡

— Phenomenally Black 💃🏾🦋🌺♈️ (@luvwinsresist) December 1, 2022

Baggz has been trying to make it in the rap industry for more than a decade. His YouTube channel has gained a total of 869 subscribers since it was established 11 years ago.

One online publication known as GMIXMAG describes Mike Baggz as a “talented and versatile artist most known for his rapping ability.” According to the site, the rapper created an “afrobeat banger” titled “Wah Yuh Dip Fah” in 2020. The “banger” allegedly became the “number one afrobeat/ world record in the country soaring well past an astonishing 13 million streams,” according to the outlet.