Posted on 12/10/2024 8:32:53 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
After often remaining silent about her name being used in cultural disputes, Caitlin Clark has spoken up.
The WNBA phenom was named Time's Athlete of the Year after putting women's basketball and women's sports on the map.
After she entered the league, there were several comments made about her being White.
WNBA MVP A'ja Wilson said Clark being White was a "huge thing" when it came to Clark's popularity. Angel Reese even said there had been "a lot of racism" from Iowa and Indiana Fever fans. Connecticut Sun player DiJonai Carrington, who poked Clark in the eye during a Connecticut playoff win over the Fever, previously criticized Clark for not doing more to call out racism.
In her discussion with Time, Clark seemed to agree with Wilson to an extent.
"I want to say I’ve earned every single thing, but as a White person, there is privilege," Clark told Time. "A lot of those players in the league that have been really good have been Black players. This league has kind of been built on them.
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She grew up in public screwels. The U of Iowa is dead center of leftivism in tue state. This is why no one should listen to a damn thing and athlete says about anything other than their sport. She is an idiot.
watched WNBA this year for the first time since the WBL Chicago Hustle Janie Fincher.
Not no more.
Her obsequious chatter is not going to work with this crowd.
She will be bullied until one of these goons hurts her during a game. Sad situation.
I say the league was built off the back of fans who pay for the NBA. Katy wants to be friends with the haters in her league. They will never stop hating her and she will never be one of the sisters. All she will accomplish is alienating her own fans. I don’t really care what she does but this seems pretty stupid.
Which is exemplified by Halle Berry.
I still think that’s a guy.
Agreed. Too much venom on this thread about Caitlin saying one bad thing amidst unimaginable pressure in the daily grind she faces amongst ultra racists, some of whom she faces in practice on her own team. Not saying I agree with her statement. Just cutting her some slack considering the situation she’s in.
I’m white, and I don’t feel privileged.
If the WNBA was built on Black Athletes, and so few whites ever play, wouldn’t Blacks have the privilege in this exclusive black club?
Well, that was pointless.
Nothing is going to change for her, now the jackals will just double down.
No surprise, she played her hand by liking dip$hit Taylor Swifts X post endorsing Harris.
Let's stop playing identity politics, kid - you do yourself and all athletes a diservice.
“They’re still going to hate you, dear. But you go ahead and show some weakness. They are going to clobber you next season.”
Correct. The only difference is that her comments in that article have greatly diminished the number of people who will now care about it.
Two decades of public school and university DEI indoctrination works. She got the message implanted in her brain and dutifully parroted it back when prompted.
We have to rip DEI out, root and branch.
Obviously Time ⏲️ magazine is racist.
NO.If traffic is a mess and backing up, and I am aware of a turn-off approaching, and then I take that exit and continue on a back country road . . .
Is that a privilege?
Is analytical thinking, a privilege?
Should white people stop performing failure analysis and go to the end of all lines-of-opportunity in life?
I’m surprised blacks want to play basketball. It was created by a white man after all.
Basketball was culturally appropriated by black people. They should stop exerting Black Privilege, it is cultural violence. They didn’t invent it and have no right to play it.
(Use the tactics of the Cultural Marxists against them.)
Pro Basketball is the sport of thoroughbreds and several hundred years of breeding programs
She caved, or she’s just not very bright.
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