February 26, 2024

There is a little craziness happening in Iowa and with University of Iowa basketball star, Caitlin Clark. She just set the NCAA all-time women’s scoring record and can make even more history this season by passing Hall of Famer Pete Maravich of LSU for the all-time NCAA scoring record set in 1970. With two games remaining in the season, Miss Clark averaging ~30 points a game and just needs 51 points to break Pistol Pete’s record that he set during his three seasons in Baton Rouge.

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But the leftist media’s treatment of Caitlin Clark shows just how corrupt the compromised media really is.

The mainstream media avoids reporting that the Hawkeyes guard overtook the previous NCAA all-time women’s scoring record holder, Kelsey Plum, in 13 fewer career games, while taking fewer shots. Or that Caitlin Clark’s deep three-point shot, showmanship and competitive intensity have sold out “never-before-sold-out” college arenas, where seats go for hundreds of dollars, and have broken TV viewership records. For a women’s college basketball game.

The mainstream media purposely avoids the point that Caitlin Clark is doing something no one in the history of women’s basketball has ever done. She is selling out arenas everywhere she goes and is responsible for the biggest television ratings in women’s basketball history. Isn’t that newsworthy? Of course, it is.

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So, what is the problem?

The media’s problem with Caitlin Clark is that she is White and apparently Black women basketball players resent the accolades and attention the six-footer is getting. The WNBA can’t fill their stadiums. And the haters in the media and the WNBA are all over it.

Sheryl Swoopes, the first player to be signed in the WNBA, a three-time WNBA MVP, and named one of the league’s Top 15 Players of All Time, condescendingly commented on a talk show that she wasn’t impressed and dismissed the hoopla because “she’s 25, she takes 40 shots a game, and it took Clark five years to break the record.” Sheryl Swoopes didn’t do her homework; she couldn’t comprehend a White girl could play record-setting basketball. But, after her comments went viral, Sheryl Swoopes later “spoke” to Caitlin Clark and said she “made a mistake.” The media wouldn’t say Swoopes totally embarrassed herself or apologized for being an ass. For the record, Clark is 22, hasn’t finished her four years at the University of Iowa, and Clark takes fewer shots per game than Swoopes did when she was in college. Caitlin has two more regular season games, then there are the NCAA playoffs.

The media also embarrassed itself and demonstrated why they are losing their viewership. You see, it wasn’t just a single Black former WNBA player who took umbrage with the record-setting White athlete. No, Yahoo Sports flooded their sports page with racist articles from across media outlets that were obviously designed to diminish Clark’s accomplishments: “NCAA Debate Over Veteran Black Players Overlooked,” “Caitlin Clark’s Scoring Record Sheds Light On Forgotten Legacy Of Black Collegiate Athletes “Who Paved The Way Before Her,” and “Caitlin Clark joins Lynette Woodard, Pearl Moore as scoring champion.“

For every new positive Caitlin Clark article in the no-so-mainstream media, like Forbes: Caitlin Clark Breaks Records for TV Ratings, Attendance & NCAA Scoring came a new anti-Caitlin Clark article from the racist media. The legacy media’s implication is clear, ignore or cancel the accomplishments of White women — Black women basketball players, by default, are the greatest players on the planet. A single White woman is only “in the discussion” because of the remarkable accomplishments of Black women!

When mainstream media racism is taken out of the equation, you actually get some legitimate accolades: “Nobody’s ever had a player like this. She’s a combination of Pete Maravich and Steph Curry,” said Fox Sports announcer Gus Johnson. “She plays in a different dimension and realm. Her ability to see, understand and anticipate the game and then, from a physical aspect, shoot the ball from almost anywhere when she gets into the frontcourt.”