Since Caitlin Clark has entered the league, it has seemingly created a divide between ethnicities within the WNBA and amongst followers, however 13-time All-Star Sue Chicken says that divide has been there for a few years.
“The issues which have held again ladies’s sports activities are racism, sexism and homophobia amongst different issues,” Chicken mentioned on an episode of her podcast A Contact Extra. “However that’s the place to begin, and that’s the lens with which it’s important to look by means of a number of this stuff.”
Chicken continued, “Racism has been impacting the WNBA effectively earlier than this 12 months. This isn’t a brand new factor,” Chicken mentioned. “In that means, I do assume Caitlin’s getting used as a pawn. Caitlin didn’t deliver racism to the WNBA. This has been taking place. And that I feel is what’s been such a shock for all of us, that different persons are shocked. We’ve been making an attempt to inform you.”
Some individuals within the media are attempting to solely blame Clark and her followers for making racism a problem inside the WNBA, however Chicken says it goes far deeper than that, and it’s the form of mentality that “has to go.”
“It has to go as a result of it’s not the Fever followers, it’s not Caitlin followers,” Chicken mentioned. “That may be a massive group of individuals. Let’s stick to the Fever for a second. That may be a massive group of individuals. And what we’re speaking about, as we get into the meat of this, we’re speaking concerning the faction of that group that’s pushing racist agendas and is pushing hate and creating divisiveness on-line, performing as followers, performing as Fever followers, performing as Caitlin followers.”
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