Watch Jason Whitlock of Blaze TV’s Fearless explain why he thinks the ‘racism’ and ‘bigotry’ surrounding Caitlin Clark’s rookie season in the WNBA is even more challenging than that of Jackie Robinson’s with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 as Major League Baseball's first Black player.
Check out the segment above as Whitlock says major networks like ESPN are completely ignoring the racial animus following Clark, saying there’s an ‘angry’ group of Black players who can’t stand the success of Clark, yet the mainstream media is refusing to run with a story oriented around anti-White narratives.
Jason Whitlock: “One of the biggest stories in sports the last year and a half, and the person to be that should be ‘Sportsperson of the Year’ is Caitlin Clark. What cannot be discussed is the level of racial animus that is being directed at her. If you’re in independent media, if you’re Twitter you can talk about it all the time, but I have yet to see it discussed on ESPN. Like, ‘holy cow, these ‘hatin’-a** Shaniqua’s’, this is racism.’
They played the Seattle Storm and Noelle Quinn is the Storm’s head coach. Noelle Quinn got into a heated argument with Christie Sides, the head coach of the Indiana Fever at the end of the game. They got their doors blown off by Caitlin Clark and the Fever and at the end of it, Noelle Quinn starts yelling, screaming, and preaching at Christie Sides. What it was about was at the end of the game, Caitlin Clark, they’re up big, there’s a timeout, she’s down at the end of the court where the Seattle Storm bench is and she’s clapping and motioning to the crowd to keep pumping up the noise. Skylar Diggins intentionally bumps into Caitlin Clark and carries her into the Storm huddle and sideline area. You can see at the very end of the clip, Noelle Quinn gets triggered. She gets triggered because she thinks Clark is showing up the Seattle Storm team, but if she had not been bumped into by Skylar Diggins, she would have been nowhere near the Storm bench
To me, it’s just another example of these Black women – they got this animosity. It’s not all of them but it’s enough of them that seem to be so bothered by the success of Caitlin Clark that they lose their composure, they lose their self-control, they just get triggered by her success, and it’s like no one is talking about it.
If you eliminate the first ten games and just evaluate what Clark's done the last 18 games, she’s the second-best player in the league, and has a case for MVP of the league if you just evaluate the last 18-19 games. She probably won’t get it next year, but she’ll probably be the best player in the league next year and should be the MVP. Her teammates have jumped on board with her because winning is infectious. They understand a rising tide lifts all boats. Caitlin Clark has them playing in sold-out big arenas every single game. It’s like ‘how are we going to complain about this?’, and ‘how are we going to complain about someone who passes me the ball and gets me so many easy shots and great looks?’ Her teammates are on board with her, and other players around the league are starting to jump on board.
But there is this angry group -- Noelle Quinn, Jewell Lloyd won’t talk about her. Even Skylar Diggins, who I like, took that little shove at her. They’re just enraged, jealous, and petty, and – I'm just sorry – it's racist and it’s bigoted. If this were happening to a Black player by a bunch of White players, this would be leading Sportscenter every night and every ESPN talk show. People called me crazy when I said ‘she won’t be facing death threats like Jackie Robinson, but this might be more difficult than Jackie Robinson.’”
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