More hypocrisy......Venus Williams and her support for UNESCO - from Sports Illustrated

by insearchoftruth 4 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • insearchoftruth
    insearchoftruth

    What most fans don't know is that behind the scenes, the world's third-ranked player is just as powerful as she is on the court. [Venus] Williams has successfully pushed for equal prize money for women, helped formulate a better-calibrated tour schedule and was a key figure in a joint program between the WTA and UNESCO -- the cultural arm of the United Nations -- that promotes gender equality and leadership opportunities for women. The idea for the UNESCO program emerged from her experience at an ESPY awards ceremony in which two Afghan women were honored for starting a soccer program in their war-torn homeland. The UNESCO-WTA program uses tennis as a vehicle to educate women around the world, making the sport a steppingstone to a better and fuller life. Williams understands how that can happen. Tennis has made her a very rich woman and has been the main focus of her life but hasn't been her entire life. Nor will it ever be, even though she has been criticized by fellow players for having pursuits that could have cut into her court time. "I think that having other interests helps you realize that no matter what you do, you start on the bottom. You work your way up," said Williams. "You get to the top and think, 'Let's just stay here as long as I can.' It helps you realize and appreciate what you do have, besides being a well-rounded person when tennis is over and not being afraid of what might be, what your life might be."

  • insearchoftruth
    insearchoftruth

    and for more information, just google Venus Williams UNESCO and there are videos and many more articles talking about the work this JW is doing with this cultural arm of the United Nations......wow

  • Black Sheep
    Black Sheep

    She is not a Governing Body member.

    She is a tennis player with JW parents. I have heard that they are not even baptised.

    This is not something that I would bother to tell my Mum to get her out of the cult.

    Cheers

    Chris

  • blondie
    blondie

    The Williams sisters mother is a baptized jw. The father was never a jw. Venus and Serena have been unbaptized publishers (per a sister in the West Palm Beach congregation) but might not be now though they identify themselves as jws still. All their siblings were raised jws but I don't know if any were baptized.

    The mother as reverted to her maiden name, Oracene Price.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracene_Price

    http://www.tennis-x.com/playerbio/Venus-Williams.php

    http://www.sporttaco.com/rec.sport.tennis/Inside_the_Williams_Clan_3968.html

  • AllTimeJeff
    AllTimeJeff

    In an Australian newspaper interview 4 years ago, both were identified as unbaptized.

    I don't have any problem with them thinking "Jehovah" is gods name and that is who they worship. They have it over most JW's, they think and do as they please. I have no problems with them....

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