There is a way that racism reverberates.
On Saturday, Naomi Osaka’s beautiful mind — her most hallowed space — became something of an echo chamber, in the traditional sense. The words, “Naomi, you suck!”, bounced off the walls in her mind as if on replay. They were widely described as “heckling” from a woman in the crowd during Osaka’s match against Veronika Kudermetova at the Indian Wells Masters tennis tournament — but the history of the tournament suggests this was more than mild harassment. This was cultural.
