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USA Today: Women's basketball needs faces of the game to be Black, not Caitlyn Clark

Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:27 pm
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
35461 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:27 pm
Odd and racist but not surprising story
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With Caitlin Clark headed to the 2024 WNBA draft, where she’s projected No. 1 overall, Watkins, the nation’s second leading scorer this season behind Clark, is positioned to become the face of women’s basketball. She'll be joined by Notre Dame point guard Hannah Hidalgo, the other favorite for freshman of the year.

Not lost on any of the powerbrokers in the game: Both of these players are Black. And in a game built by Black women, it matters that the faces of the future look like the faces of the past.

Too often, the Black players who built women’s hoops — and who now dominate the professional level, where the WNBA is 70% Black — haven’t been acknowledged.

As women's basketball grows in popularity, white players get most attention.



LINK


They want to direct and manufacture fandom instead of it being organic... Britney Griner syndrome, persists.
This post was edited on 3/8/24 at 4:29 pm
Posted by FootballFrenzy
Member since Oct 2023
1363 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:28 pm to
Wrong forum...try the Politics section.
Posted by Froman
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2007
36206 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:29 pm to
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it matters that the faces of the future look like the faces of the past.


Um, isn’t this the exact thing liberals are fighting AGAINST?
Posted by SelaTiger
Member since Aug 2016
17934 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:29 pm to
Clark is going to hurt lots of feelings and it’s going to be great
Posted by Tim Gambill
Member since Nov 2023
353 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:33 pm to
Racism from one side is condemned, and encouraged from the other side. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Posted by SeeeeK
some where
Member since Sep 2012
28039 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:33 pm to
I told you this was going on, and people claimed WNBA and media wanted her as face.

The Snow flake race has been going after her since she started getting all the attention. They mad just like a snow flake NBA player crying about the White Euro players the other day.


365/24/7 crying about Whitey must be tiresome, except for the snow flake race.
Posted by SelaTiger
Member since Aug 2016
17934 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:37 pm to
It’s the same as black rappers hating Slim Shady. There is extreme jealousy when someone white dominates in fields dominated by black people. Clark is going to drive them crazy.
Posted by Geauxldninja
Member since May 2018
1459 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:40 pm to
League is already 70% black but that’s not good enough. Can’t have the star of the league being a whitey even though she’s the one doing it organically by being the woman’s version of Curry.

Also speaking of history, Dr. James Naismith who is a white Canadian invented the game. Don’t see whitey parading around acting like only honkeys should be playing.
Posted by Choupique19
The cheap seats
Member since Sep 2005
61776 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:42 pm to
The WNBA players are going to shun her so badly. She is going to have to work really hard to create friends with her team mates and she will certainly be the #1 target of all of her opponents. She’s being compared to Pistol Pete by the media, well Pistol Pete used to have team mates that would refuse to catch a pass if they thought he was showboating. They were jealous of the original contract he signed and all of the media attention he received before he had proven himself in the NBA.
Posted by Ghost of Colby
Alberta, overlooking B.C.
Member since Jan 2009
11155 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:43 pm to
quote:

Black players who built women’s hoops


Posted by SeeeeK
some where
Member since Sep 2012
28039 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:50 pm to
The snow flake race eating her article up.

"Uh Huh"
"oh hell to the yeahs"
quote:

A must read! We need more articles like this.


quote:

Another must and IMPORTANT read by @Lindsay_Schnell .



Whiteyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Posted by RLDSC FAN
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Member since Nov 2008
51501 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:51 pm to
That's what gets them clicks
Posted by Boodis Man
Member since Sep 2020
4488 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:53 pm to
Not surprised a white liberal woman wrote that. What do you expect
This post was edited on 3/8/24 at 4:53 pm
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
35461 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:55 pm to
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I told you this was going on, and people claimed WNBA and media wanted her as face.


Jason Whitlock on his podcast has been saying for months.

She's gonna catch hell in the WNBA...

And some from her teammates... Because she's not a Britney Griner look a like member of the club but sexually plays for a different team.
This post was edited on 3/8/24 at 5:02 pm
Posted by Frac the world
The Centennial State
Member since Oct 2014
16768 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:56 pm to
Why am I not surprised this was written by a guilt ridden white woman? How the shite does this stuff get published, seriously

But at the end of the day who cares? Mulkey Man and the other fan?
Posted by TheWalrus
Member since Dec 2012
40446 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:58 pm to
How can any self respecting white person be ok with this? Diminishing white achievement is a liberal sport.
This post was edited on 3/8/24 at 4:58 pm
Posted by StringedInstruments
Member since Oct 2013
18348 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 4:59 pm to
quote:

it matters that the faces of the future look like the faces of the past.


We really aren’t too far away from them verbally calling for the extermination of white people.
Posted by SeeeeK
some where
Member since Sep 2012
28039 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 5:00 pm to
I also heard something about her not being a lezbo, and that being a huge deal for many(wnba players and their media), as media pushed her popularity..

They want a colored dyke as face, not a wiener loving white girl.
Posted by ronricks
Member since Mar 2021
6387 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 5:03 pm to
quote:

where the WNBA is 70% Black


All this tells me is the WNBA needs more diversity. Right?
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
35461 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 5:06 pm to
quote:

I also heard something about her not being a lezbo


That's what I meant by, "plays for a different team". (Edited)

That's a HUGE deal in the WNBA.

Whitlock is in the sportsworld, I'm not...but when he calls the WNBA a prison gang culture, that's eye-opening.
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