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 stated on an episode of her podcast A Contact Extra. “However that’s the place to begin, and that’s the lens with which you need to look by means of loads of this stuff.”
Fowl continued, “Racism has been impacting the WNBA properly earlier than this 12 months. This isn’t a brand new factor,” Fowl stated. “In that means, I do assume Caitlin’s getting used as a pawn. Caitlin didn’t carry 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 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 problem inside 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 stated. “That may be a giant group of individuals. Let’s persist with the Fever for a second. That may be a giant 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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