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Another Racist Attack on Caitlin Clark, this Time at the Hands of White Women
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Caitlin Clark got roughed up on Wednesday night. First an eye poke, then a retaliatory shove before being pushed to the ground:
That’s a white woman, Jacy Sheldon, doing the poking, and a white woman, Marina Mabrey, doing the shoving. Tina Charles is the only black woman involved, and she doesn’t really do anything. She just comes over in response to Clark’s retaliation and makes a little bit of contact, but Mabrey is the one who sent her to the ground. Later in the game, Sheldon was cleaned out by one of Clark’s teammates, Sophie Cunningham, who is also white. This entire sequence was whiter than Boyertown.
Anyway, it makes you laugh because we’ve heard that the WNBA is racist and that all of the black players hate Caitlin Clark because she’s white. At least that’s what the right wing Twitter accounts tell us. The Angel Reese rivalry is a racial one and that’s why there’s an international incident every time one breathes on the other.
But here we’ve got white women beating up Caitlin Clark, so what’s the angle now? Do these white women hate other white women? Is this some grotesque perversion of the Dave Chappelle Clayton Bigbsy skit?
Probably not, but it pours some cold water on the “racism,” thing, or at least forces the conservative grifter accounts to pivot for one night only. More importantly, it supports the argument that moderate media has been trying to make for a long time now, that it’s not ONLY racism targeted at Caitlin Clark, but a combination of many factors, among them jealousy and annoyance that a young player has received the most significant media push in WNBA history. It’s one thing for her to be white, but she’s white, straight, not overtly woke, and gets a lot of attention, attention that other league superstars don’t get and never did get. So you put it all together and you have a classic case of “more than one thing can be true,” which was proven Wednesday night and should be readily applied to most situations across the sports and news spectrum.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com