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 Hen says that divide has been there for a few years.
“The issues which have held again girls’s sports activities are racism, sexism and homophobia amongst different issues,” Hen mentioned on an episode of her podcast A Contact Extra. “However that’s the place to begin, and that’s the lens with which you must look by loads of this stuff.”
Hen continued, “Racism has been impacting the WNBA effectively earlier than this yr. This isn’t a brand new factor,” Hen mentioned. “In that means, I do suppose Caitlin’s getting used as a pawn. Caitlin didn’t carry racism to the WNBA. This has been taking place. And that I believe is what’s been such a shock for all of us, that different persons are stunned. We’ve been making an attempt to let you know.”
Some folks within the media try to solely blame Clark and her followers for making racism a problem inside the WNBA, however Hen says it goes far deeper than that, and it’s the sort 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,” Hen mentioned. “That could be a massive group of individuals. Let’s persist with the Fever for a second. That could be a massive group of individuals. And what we’re speaking about, as we get into the meat of this, we’re speaking in regards to the faction of that group that’s pushing racist agendas and is pushing hate and creating divisiveness on-line, appearing as followers, appearing as Fever followers, appearing as Caitlin followers.”
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