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

Posted on 3/8/24 at 5:49 pm to
Posted by bernermountaindog
Member since Jan 2024
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Posted on 3/8/24 at 5:49 pm to
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Um, isn’t this the exact thing liberals are fighting AGAINST?

They don’t have the slightest clue what they’re fighting for or against. All they know are buzzwords and stoking racial flames
Posted by Oilfieldbiology
Member since Nov 2016
41184 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 5:52 pm to
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it matters that the faces of the future look like the faces of the past.


Oh really?!?!?! It does?
Posted by 3nOut
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Jan 2013
31717 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 5:54 pm to
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That's what I meant by, "plays for a different team". (Edited)

That's a HUGE deal in the WNBA.


LINK

quote:

Candice Wiggins was a college basketball star, the third pick of the 2008 WNBA draft and a 2011 champion. And at the mountaintop of her basketball career, her sexuality marred the moment.

There is a “very, very harmful” culture running throughout the WNBA, she says, which saw her get bullied during her eight-year career because she is heterosexual.

Wiggins, who last played in the league in 2015, said she retired prematurely to leave a league that she estimated — wildly — is 98 per cent lesbian, and which is played in such isolation that it weighs on the people on the court.

“It wasn’t like my dreams came true in the WNBA. It was quite the opposite,” Wiggins said in an extensive San Diego Tribune story published Monday.

“I wanted to play two more seasons of WNBA, but the experience didn’t lend itself to my mental state. It was a depressing state in the WNBA. It’s not watched. Our value is diminished. It can be quite hard. I didn’t like the culture inside the WNBA, and without revealing too much, it was toxic for me. … My spirit was being broken.”

The 30-year-old couldn’t take it anymore — being harassed for being straight and fighting for attention in a league that is starved.


i always thought Candace Parker was graceful and beautiful... and then she divorced her husband and left him for a woman.
Posted by RandySavage
9 Time Natty Winner
Member since May 2012
34630 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 6:24 pm to
It brought me great pleasure when Iowa beat Dawn Staley last year. You know how much that killed her inside.
Posted by Tiger in Gatorland
Moonshine Holler
Member since Sep 2006
9525 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 6:29 pm to
I'd think if anything, viewership will increase with Clark being in the WNBA which would in-turn, benefit the entire league.
Posted by Blizzard of Chizz
Member since Apr 2012
20563 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 7:35 pm to
We should start pushing the line that the game of basketball was stolen from us.

I’m kidding of course but I do find it hilarious that the same group that claims rock n roll and now country was stolen from them in addition to claiming to be the real Jews and the true Native Americans is trying to claim the face of basketball needs to be black.
This post was edited on 3/9/24 at 7:13 pm
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
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Posted on 3/8/24 at 7:43 pm to
Everything racist
Posted by QJenk
Atl, Ga
Member since Jan 2013
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Posted on 3/8/24 at 7:47 pm to
I know you really want to blame black people, but a random white lady whole that article.
Posted by SeeeeK
some where
Member since Sep 2012
30496 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 7:56 pm to
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I know you really want to blame black people, but a random white lady whole that article.


No shite dickjaw, and as i stated, snow flake race running to her twitter like a moth to a flame.


Whiteyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
59297 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 8:06 pm to
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Um, isn’t this the exact thing liberals are fighting AGAINST?


It’s all selective. I’m training myself to tune the nonsense out. It’s tough
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
38953 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 8:06 pm to
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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.


The few times I ever heard/acknowledged woman's hoops...was hearing about...and "growing the game"... were

Cheryl Miller, Lisa Leslie (both black)...And Rebecca Lobo at UConn and now Clark (both white)...

This author doesn't, want fair natural representation based on talent and is scolding people for their desired fandom...she wants to direct fan attraction... To frankly a,lot of tatted up lesbians that most find unappealing. The WNBA should give Clark a,lifetime achievement award on Day 1 for saving that awful product.
Posted by dukke v
PLUTO
Member since Jul 2006
215992 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 8:07 pm to
And people wonder what’s wrong with this country.
Posted by QJenk
Atl, Ga
Member since Jan 2013
17092 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 8:07 pm to
Seek help.
Posted by Dawgsontop34
Member since Jun 2014
45522 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 8:13 pm to
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The Snow flake race has been going after her since she started getting all the attention


This article was written by a white woman, which isn’t a sign that black people are going after her.

Do some? Sure. But overall I feel like she has a lot of respect from everyone.

I’d argue the face of the WNBA has been the most diverse out of any league.

Sheryl Swoopes, Cynthia Cooper, Cheryl Miller, Lisa Leslie, Skylar Diggins, Maya Moore, Candace Parker

Then you have

Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird, Rebecca Lobo, Breanna Stewart, Elena Della Donne, Kelsey Plum

Truly just an absurd article.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
112018 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 8:14 pm to
Lololololololol
Posted by nicholastiger
Member since Jan 2004
53683 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 8:26 pm to
Clark just passed Steph curry most 3 pointers in a season
Another record
Posted by East Coast Band
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 3/8/24 at 9:09 pm to
Then quit capitalizing black and not white
Posted by slutiger5
Parroquias de Florida
Member since May 2007
11778 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 9:30 pm to
Editor and chiefs, man. They’re making this an issue because they have readers. Wish em all the best but this chick can shoot. You talking about the face of the league, what you’re about to change the logo? Don’t dawn the crown before she signs a contract. frick bullshite sports writers.
Posted by TexSolo
Member since Oct 2023
273 posts
Posted on 3/8/24 at 9:49 pm to
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And in a game built by Black women, it matters that the faces of the future look like the faces of the past.


Anothe facet of life that was built by blacks. It's amazing they built everything and have nothing to show for it. Someone should let Naismith's ghost know he didn't build shite.
Posted by BowDownToLSU
Livingston louisiana
Member since Feb 2010
21064 posts
Posted on 3/9/24 at 2:58 am to
the woke writer
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