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 Fowl 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,” Fowl mentioned on an episode of her podcast A Contact Extra. “However that’s the start line, and that’s the lens with which you must look via loads of this stuff.”
Fowl continued, “Racism has been impacting the WNBA nicely earlier than this yr. This isn’t a brand new factor,” Fowl mentioned. “In that means, I do assume Caitlin’s getting used as a pawn. Caitlin didn’t carry racism to the WNBA. This has been occurring. And that I believe is what’s been such a shock for all of us, that different individuals are shocked. We’ve been making an attempt to inform you.”
Some folks within the media try to solely blame Clark and her followers for making racism a difficulty throughout the WNBA, however Fowl says it goes far deeper than that, and it’s the type 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,” Fowl mentioned. “That may be a massive group of individuals. Let’s persist with 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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