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Caitlyn Clark all right the Indiana Fever star was named Time magazine’s athlete of the Year earlier this week and she took time to acknowledge that race played the role in her success this year here’s a passage from the article in Times magazine quote I want to say I’ve earned every single thing but as a white person there is privilege a lot of those players in the league that have been really good have been black players this league has been kind of been built on them the more we can appreciate that highlight that talk about that I think it’s very important I have to continue to try to change that the more we can elev black women that’s going to be a beautiful thing end quote you see why I had no problem with her being times athlete of the year you see why I said that she should have been on Team USA you see why I had to go off on the likes of Cheryl swoops and others who were clearly distant and dismiss and dismissive of her no matter how much they try to deny it there was resentment towards her and here’s why I said it was stupid because when she came into the in the into the WNBA for 22 plus years they had been flying commercial they were begging for ched flights she arrives there and two weeks later they got chared flights she automatically and instantaneously improved the conditions attendance is still lagging WNBA is still losing money compared to what you would hope it would earn but clearly things are on an up upward trending trajectory it’s improving and she has everything to do with it attendance for Indiana Fever games are you kidding me M WNBA draft games on ABC ESPN television ratings she’s directly responsible and people were resenting her for it like she was the cause of the problems that they had for the lack of recognition no she just happened to be born white that’s it Caitlyn Clark hasn’t spoken against anybody she hasn’t assisted in denying anybody else the Privileges they deserve if anything she’s tried to provide assistance a rising tide lifts all boats she’s trying to be the rising tide that lifts the boats and there was sisters resentful of her be resentful of the system be resentful of the folks primarily the white folks who basically disenfranchised y’all all of these years before she came along who denied you the Acclaim and the Allure and the profits you richly deserved but you don’t take that out on Caitlin Clark not her she’s the one that assists you when black folks was marched during the Civil Rights era and fighting every battle they possibly could they weren’t dismissive nor did they insist in denigrating the white people who marched with them they saved the venom for those who wouldn’t you don’t run away from people who support you you run to them especially when they’re in a better position than you to help you but it still seems like people are slow rolling their way to a form of progressive thinking that enables them to appreciate the Caitlin clars of the world instead of resenting her which means as always no matter how far we’ve come you still have a ways to go
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