A car ride with her nephew left Serena Williams apprehensive but determined to share a message.
The tennis superstar took to Facebook on Tuesday to express her anxiety and vowed to speak out more about social issues after she became nervous when she saw a police car while out for a drive.
“In the distance I saw cop on the side of the road,” she wrote . “I quickly checked to see if he was obliging by the speed limit. Than I remembered that horrible video of the woman in the car when a cop shot her boyfriend. All of this went through my mind in a matter of seconds. I even regretted not driving myself. I would never forgive myself if something happened to my nephew. He’s so innocent. So were all 'the others.'”
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Williams is alluding to the July death of Philando Castile, a black Minnesota man shot and killed by police during a traffic stop with his girlfriend and child inside.
“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,” Williams wrote.
Despite acknowledging that fact, tennis’ all-time wins leader seemed upset she even had to worry.
“Why did I have to think about this in 2016?" she wrote. "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.”
By the end of her post, Williams sounded resolved to do something.
"As Dr. Martin Luther King said 'There comes a time when silence is betrayal.' I Won't Be Silent," the post ended.