It’s super disappointing when a big, influential figure in pop culture or sports caves to the pressure of the woke mob and starts issuing statements apologizing for their race or some other dumb arbitrary thing that leftists are using to shame said individual for just being really good at what they do. The latest giant to fall is WNBA star Caitlin Clark, who was recently revealed to be Time Magazine’s Athlete of the Year.
The kind of person who usually gets chosen for an award like this is someone who has a tremendous, profound impact on their sport and the culture at large. Clark fits the bill for just such an individual. Up until she joined the WNBA, not a soul on earth cared about women’s professional basketball. After she showed up on the court, folks tuned in to see her amazing display of skill. She drew in large crowds who probably didn’t even know this league existed. Clark deserved the award. Truly, she earned it.
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So, yes, a richly deserved award, even though Shohei Ohtani might also have something to say about that. (Hopefully through an interpreter that doesn’t have a gambling problem this time.) However, of course the laudatory article dipped more than a toe into the idea that Clark is the beneficiary of white privilege, and — depressingly — the Indiana Fever star and WNBA Rookie of the Year played right along.
Caitlin Clark is TIME's Athlete of the Year https://t.co/WtgLuIIYhb pic.twitter.com/oGDewhUPcB
— TIME (@TIME) December 10, 2024
The racial hand-wringing began pretty deep into the story, to be fair, when discussing Clark’s appearance on “Saturday Night Live,” which “did include a more serious moment, as she thanked a quintet of black women — Lisa Leslie, Sheryl Swoopes, Cynthia Cooper, [Dawn] Staley, and Maya Moore, Clark’s basketball hero growing up — for paving the way for her success.
“These stars, despite their athletic prowess, were never rewarded with the same level of attention that Clark is now receiving,” writer Sean Gregory pointed out in a piece published Tuesday.
Taylor then quoted a text from Temi Fagbenle, a teammate of Clark’s on the Indiana Fever this season. (She’ll be joining the expansion Golden State Valkyries next year.)
“America was founded on segregation, and to this day is very much about black and white,” Fagbenle remarked rather stupidly. You know why people are paying so much attention to race these days? Because liberal morons like Fagbenle keep bringing it up and creating racism where none exists. Every leftists in this nation wants to feel important, like they are on a crusade to right some injustice, real or fictional, fighting the good fight like the generation of boomers who put flowers in their hair back in the 1960s. It’s pathetic.
“In a sport dominated by black/African-American players, white America has rallied around Caitlin Clark. The support looks mostly amazing, sometimes fanatical and territorial, sometimes racist. It seems that the Great White Hope syndrome is at play again,” Fagbenle continued. Oh for goodness sake. Has it ever occurred to this genius that maybe the reason people are rallying around her is because she’s an amazing athlete with unrivaled skill on the court? Not everything is about skin color.
Now, mind you, Fagbenle apparently “loved playing with Clark.” But again, despite the fact that Clark is a generational talent in a draft class that was filled with them — including, yes, black players that contributed to the WNBA’s soaring popularity profile, including Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso — it’s coming down to the fact that the best of these players just happens to be white and that’s Problematic™.
And, of course, Time mentioned that other stars agreed: “Going into the WNBA season, [A’ja] Wilson, a two-time league champion and now three-time WNBA MVP, told the Associated Press she thought Clark’s race was a ‘huge’ contributor to her popularity. ‘It doesn’t matter what we all do as black women, we’re still going to be swept underneath the rug,’ Wilson said. ‘That’s why it boils my blood when people say it’s not about race because it is.’”
What’s truly disappointing, however, is that Clark actually bowed the knee and went along with this garbage.
“Clark is cognizant of the racial underpinnings of her stardom. ‘I want to say I’ve earned every single thing, but as a white person, there is privilege,’ says Clark. ‘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. The more we can appreciate that, highlight that, talk about that, and then continue to have brands and companies invest in those players that have made this league incredible, I think it’s very important. I have to continue to try to change that,’” Time stated in the article.
“The more we can elevate black women, that’s going to be a beautiful thing,” Clark stated in an attempt to shove her nose as far up the rectal cavity of the woke mob as humanly possible. Trust me, when she pulls that thing out, it’s going to be covered in brown. Then she’ll be accused of blackface. You can’t win with these people.
“And there you have it. Despite the fact that she averaged 19.2 points per game, 8.4 assists and 5.7 rebounds — along with a 34.4 3-point percentage — all huge numbers by WNBA standards, and in her rookie year to boot, Clark is a sensation because she’s a white woman and racist America can finally root for women’s basketball,” The Western Journal reported.
Anyone else need to purge their intestines after reading such a weak and pathetic response from Clark?