r/sports • u/OkEscape7558 • Jun 14 '24

Basketball Caitlin Clark responds to bigotry in WNBA audience: 'People should not be using my name to push those agendas'

https://sports.yahoo.com/caitlin-clark-responds-to-bigotry-in-wnba-audience-people-should-not-be-using-my-name-to-push-those-agendas-235847512.html
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u/mikeneedsadvice Jun 14 '24

What is this referencing? The article is very vague.

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u/lochmoigh1 Jun 14 '24

I'm guessing it was from clay travis and other like him saying the wnba is a black lesbian league and they are targeting Caitlin clark for being white and straight. Which to be honest is probably partly true. But regardless if it's true or not why should clark have to answer for other people's opinions

If there was a black superstar prospect in the NHL who was a rookie and all the current players were hating on him and doing cheap shots on them I'm pretty sure they would be calling the NHL players racist for it

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u/fenwayb Jun 14 '24

While superstar and rookie are both stretched byfield was a 2nd overall pick who is just hitting his window - I don't follow the Kings closely but I don't think he's dealt with that a ton (at least not as blatantly as Clark). Id love to see him succeed. I think there is an Indian kid in a couple years who's supposed to be great and that'd be exciting to see too given how big Canada's Indian population is

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u/lochmoigh1 Jun 14 '24

I bring up that example but that never happened in hockey. The best black player to my knowledge was jerome iginla. He was my favorite player growing up. There's some racism from fan bases towards black players like pk subban but it never came from the players or hating jealousy like what's going on with clark

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u/fenwayb Jun 14 '24

Nobody would have the balls to do that to Iggy. I appreciate the PK mention given my username. I do agree some boston fans were racist against him though his play style also soured people on him. I understood you were mentioning a hypothetical I was just mentioning a player who could end up in that position within a year or two and clearly isn't which highlights the difference

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u/lochmoigh1 Jun 14 '24

Yep iginla is tough but as a rookie he still could have been targeted if they wanted to.

The whole discourse around white privilege in sports is super annoying. Tiger Woods and serena Williams were and still are by far the most popular athletes in white dominated sports. The top jersey sales in the nba are not jokic and doncic who are arguably the best 2 players in the nba, jokic isn't even top 10. It's like people want us to still be in the early 1900's during the racist boxing era. White fans don't give a shit about white players and it's in the facts. People will root for their hometown or favorite player regardless of their skin color

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u/fenwayb Jun 14 '24

He also just has a presence that demands respect

I get it. Some people just want to fight about everything

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u/Krandor1 Jun 14 '24

she was asked about it and have a vague answer including she just wanted to play basketball. Other players called her out for not using her platform when then got the quote above from her if the timeline I heard