She's breaking the WNBA color line, just as Jackie did in 1947. She's been the target of assault all season long. The latest chapter was last Sunday, when Connecticut's Dijonai Carrington used her long fingernails to stab Caitlin in the eyes. Caitlin went down in obvious pain. No foul was called, the announcers were silent, and the media, then, and later, had nothing to say. But, oh, did Jason Whitlock have something to say.
He thoroughly explained the situation as he has done all season long. As he showed, Carrington, the perpetrator, has had an ongoing animus towards Caitlin. Her lesbo partner is Caitlin's teammate, NaLyssa Smith, with whom Caitlin has had difficulty. Those fingernails to the eyes weren't accidental.
But this is just the latest incident in a series of gratuitous attacks that have sent Caitlin sprawling to the floor throughout the season. For her part, Caitlin has always taken the "high road" and said all of it is just a part of basketball. What can she say? If she called out the truth about the racist thugs, she would be ostracized by the media. She's like Jackie Robinson who agreed with Branch Rickey to turn the other cheek for the first few years with the Dodgers. After that, Jackie literally fought back.
The Caitlin Clark matter exposes the ugly underbelly of the malignant WNBA culture: tatted-up, black supremacist, lesbo, ghetto, and thug.
No white girls need apply!
Caitlin is the hated antithesis of all this: Middle-American, wholesome, Catholic (OMG), straight, and white.
Ironically, Caitlin is the golden goose who has transformed the league, all by herself. Attendance, TV ratings, jersey sales, etc. have exploded because of her. And yet, the myopic idiots, whose economic fortunes have blossomed because of her, want to tear her down because of their hatred and jealousy for her.
So, basketball is just a small part of what Caitlin Clark is about, just as baseball was a small part of what Jackie Robinson was about.
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do have a racial element. The biggest element IMHO is jealousy for what she’s doing as a rookie and a belief that she hasn’t paid her dues. And, she is hardly Jackie Robinson.
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