Caitlin Clark is Everything Wrong with America
I should be in my hotel’s gym right now, but the algorithm showed me a video of WNBA “star” Caitlin Clark elbowing three-time FIBA gold medalist Rhyne Howard, and once again, I must write. Clark’s elbow was blatant. The flat-chested Clark is athletic for a white heterosexual female, but above-average when defended by an experienced, rangy African-American. In this case, Clark had no answer for Ms. Howard’s strong defense and decided to elbow her in the kidney rather than passing the ball or requesting a pick. Clark got the foul call. Days earlier, against the WNBA’s leading rebounder, Angel Reese, Clark missed her defensive assignment and intentionally hacked Reese from behind. As Reese stood up, Clark turned her back and calmly walked away, knowing the system—aka the referees—would protect her. Without discussing the curious number of videos showing Ms. Reese missing layups rather than catching rebounds, problems go beyond entitlement. First, the reason the algorithm showed me the elb...
