Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers, left, poses with nemesis Ben Chapman of the Philadelphia Phillies in the middle of the 1947 N.L. season. Chapman notably and repeatedly called Robinson the N-word during games against Robinson’s Dodgers. | Source: Transcendental Graphics / Getty
It seems like every day, failed sports analyst Jason Whitlock wakes up in the morning and thinks, “How can I prove that if I were alive back in the 1800s, I would have applied for a slave catcher internship today?”
On Friday morning, Whitlock decided he would prove himself to be a Harriet Tubman shooting target once again, this time, by continuing his one-sided love affair with women’s basketball phenom Caitlin Clark while making the absurd claim that “racism” she has faced in the WNBA is similar to racism faced by the Black man who integrated professional baseball, Jackie Robinson.
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Here’s what Stephan from Django had to say regarding Clark:
“What cannot be discussed is the level of racial animus that is being directed at Caitlin Clark. I have yet to see it discussed on ESPN. Like, ‘holy cow, these ‘hatin’-a** Shaniqua’s’, this is racism.’
Seattle Storm 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. At the end of the game the Fever are up big, there’s a timeout, Caitlin Clark is 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.
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.’”
OK, look, we don’t even need to go into the well-documented racial harassment and white violence Robinson endured even before he played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Whitlock, after all, knows he’s not making a real argument here—he’s just leaning into his white supremacy-friendly brand of shucking and jiving for his audience, whoever the hell they are. It’s interesting, though, that the only example of “racial animus” directed at Clark he could give was a regular-degular instance of athletic roughhousing between competitors, which one would have to stretch themselves into a noose knot to find any evidence of racism in.
Whitlock has argued for years that anti-Black racism in America is largely a myth despite all of the data that says otherwise, but if a Black woman so much as causes Caitlin Clark to chip a fingernail, Whitlock is ready to emerge from the Sunken Place holding a “White Women in Basketball Matter” sign and claim that WNBA stands for “Whites Never, Blacks Always.”
It’s also interesting how impossible it seems to be for Whitlock to fawn over his great white crush without reminding the world how much he hates Black women in sports. Back in April, Live-Action Uncle Ruckus mused about “falling in love with Caitlin Clark and women’s basketball” because he found it refreshing “to see athletes compete that are free of all the tattoos, free of all the hip-hop, and all the stuff that’s been smothered and baked into sports.” He also praised Clark and the other white women who he said “look like normal women” who “aren’t all tatted up” and listening to rap music while he went out of his way to throw shade at WNBA stars Brittney Griner and Angel Reese.
We all remember how Whitlock erroneously insisted that Simone Biles isn’t nearly as well-known as Clark, a sentiment that has obviously aged beautifully after this year’s Olympic games in Paris.
Maybe Whitlock is just salty because Clark has never even acknowledged his existence, and instead of returning his unrequited love, the “MAGA guy” has to watch her sully herself with a boyfriend who publicly supports Vice President Kamala Harris and heart reacted to Michelle Obama during her DNC speech this week.
The real irony behind Whitlock’s latest ridiculous comparison is that he clearly feels about Black women how white people felt about Jackie Robinson. So, there’s that.
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Jason Whitlock Claims Caitlin Clark Faces ‘Racial Animus’ Similar To Racism Jackie Robinson Faced
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