Acho Faces More Criticism For Benign Angel Reese Take Than Pierce For Demeaning 'Little White Girl'
On Tuesday, Paul Pierce appeared on FS1 where he casually belittled white female basketball players. With ease, he admitted he could not believe that Caitlin Clark recorded 41 points, 12 assists, and seven rebounds Monday night in a win against LSU.
He didn't believe a "white girl in Iowa" could outplay actual black women.
"She didn't do this to some other little white girls in Colorado," said Pierce. "She did this to some black girls from LSU. I didn't expect that."
Pierce views "little white girls" as inherently inferior to their black counterparts. Such demeaning views of white athletes would be found throughout a doctrine for black supremacists.
A few hours later, on the same network, Emmanuel Acho criticized LSU forward Angel Reese’s melodramatic post-game press conference by encouraging her to "take the L."
"In sports, you can’t act like the big bad wolf, then cry like courage the cowardly dog," said Acho.
What does Acho's point have to do with a blatantly racist statement hours prior? Nothing, other than the disparate reaction.
Emmanuel Acho continues to trend on social media, nearly 24 hours later. Several members of the sports media have since pilloried him for his comments, including an ESPN writer accusing him of "harboring a deep disdain for black women."
NBA on TNT analyst Taylor Rooks posted a 448-word tweet calling Acho's perspective "disappointing." Her post has amassed 3.5 million views.
And counting:
Several others in the media followed:
And so on…
We planned to also show you the response to Pierce's comments. However, doing so would seem too much like promoting.
Other than OutKick, hardly anyone of note criticized Pierce's remarks about the inferiority of "little white girls" who play basketball.
Pierce and Acho released their takes on the same network, on the same day, on the same story subject (Iowa vs. LSU). Yet only the objectively more benign quote drew the ire of the sports media industry.
While we pride ourselves on providing readers with more than simplistic analysis, the contrasting responses to Acho and Pierce are summed up quite easily:
Angel Reese is black. Caitlin Clark is white.
There are separate (unwritten) rules when covering black and white athletes – particularly when those athletes are made characters in the "Race Wars," as Jemele Hill put it this week.
Reese and Clark are characters in the "Race Wars."
See, Acho treated Reese like he would a white football player. That's not good enough for the Identity Police. As a rule, they expect little to no criticism of black women – unless they are conservative, like Candace Owens.
Acho upset the sports media by not granting Reese the made-up sympathy she demands as a woman of color. And there's nothing the race hustlers abhor more than a black man critiquing a black woman.
Black women must be carefully handled, believes the media at large. Black women sit right beneath trans people on the oft-cited Hierarchy of Victimhood.
We'll see if Acho caves. He shouldn't. His comments were fair and balanced.
OutKick's Clay Travis bestowed praise upon him:
Then there's Paul Pierce.
Caitlin Clark is a successful straight white woman from middle America. She's fair game. In fact, she's a target. She's been a target for months.
There's a wing of voices who claim Clark's whiteness helped elevate her into stardom. Over the weekend, former ESPN host Jemele Hill complained that Clark receives more media coverage than black players.
What proof did Hill cite? She didn't cite any. She rarely does.
There's a separate wing of voices who think Clark is only good for a white girl. This wing includes Sheryl Swoopes, Gilbert Arenas and now Paul Pierce.
Note: an ESPN article last June made the same argument regarding Jokic and Larry Bird, suggesting they are only great compared to other white men.
White basketball players, name a group under more attack.
Further, society is too racially sensitive to hold a black analyst accountable for uttering racist remarks about a white player. See Kendrick Perkins' coverage of white players, for proof.
If there's a line, expect some analyst to test that line as Clark heads to the WNBA next season and remains a primary focus of the anti-white brigade of the press.
Ultimately, the blatant racial animus aimed toward Caitlin Clark demonstrates how normalized and accepted anti-white bigotry is. That's unfortunate.
And the sports media's disparate outrage toward Acho and Pierce epitomizes the racially compromised state in which the industry finds itself.