Serena Williams sparked debate after noticing what appeared to be a cotton plant in a New York City hotel corridor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sharing her discomfort on Instagram, she asked, \u201cAlright everyone\u2014how do we feel about cotton as decoration?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Personally, for me, it doesn\u2019t feel great.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cotton carries deep historical associations in the U.S., which Williams hinted made the display feel inappropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even after realizing it was artificial, she examined it and remarked it looked like \u201cnail polish remover cotton,\u201d<\/em> but said it still made her uneasy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The post drew mixed responses\u2014some agreed the hotel overlooked cultural sensitivity,<\/p>\n\n\n\n while others defended the d\u00e9cor as harmless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Williams has been in NYC supporting Kim Kardashian\u2019s NikeSKIMS launch<\/p>\n\n\n\n , attending events with athletes Sha\u2019Carri Richardson and Jordan Chiles,<\/p>\n\n\n\n and joining Kardashian for a private fashion dinner. She also shared August had been a \u201cdifficult\u201d month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Serena\u2019s Concern Serena Williams sparked debate after noticing what appeared to be a cotton plant in a New York City hotel corridor. Sharing her discomfort on Instagram, she asked, \u201cAlright everyone\u2014how do we feel about cotton as decoration? Personally, for me, it doesn\u2019t feel great.\u201d Historical Weight Cotton carries deep historical associations in the U.S., which…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6044,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions\/6044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Historical Weight<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Public Reaction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Busy Week<\/h3>\n\n\n\n