Race-Obsessed ESPN Writer Claims Caitlin Clark Fans Are Using Her To Express 'Disdain' For Black Women
It was inevitable, someone was going to jump on a major network and accuse white people who support Caitlin Clark of being racist, and that is exactly what ESPN and Andscape writer David Dennis Jr. did during Monday's edition of ‘Around The Horn.’
Dennis has come to his conclusion about Clark fans after seeing the reaction to her being left off of the U.S. Olympics roster for the upcoming Games in Paris. He claims that there can be a "sports debate" about whether Clark should have made the team, but "people on the fringe" are using the debate to voice disdain for black women.
"The problem here is, and what concerns me going forward, is those people on the fringe that do exist, who are in real life, not just Internet trolls, politicians, pundits and people of the like, who are using Caitlin Clark as an avatar to lash out at the people who they have disdain for, mainly the makeup of the WNBA, black women, et. al.
"They are using her to go against Team USA. What’s going to happen … the big tragedy here, is the way they are treated by those people come this summer," he continued.
When Dennis says "people on the fringe" and the "so-called patriots" as he calls them on X, he's referring to white Americans who are frustrated about Clark being left off of the Olympic roster.
Dennis sharing this opinion shouldn't come as a surprise it should be expected. He is a senior writer at Andscape, which describes itself as "a Black-led media platform dedicated to creating, highlighting, and uplifting the diverse stories of Black identity."
Seeing as how Clark is white and her making the U.S. Olympic team more likely than not would have resulted in a black player being left off the roster, well, that wouldn't exactly be an uplifting story of black identity.
It doesn't matter that Clark has already become the face of the WNBA and is the sole reason ‘Around The Horn,’ Dennis himself, and sports fans in general are talking about women's basketball in the middle of June. All that matters is that Clark is white, the majority of her fans are white, and she is seen as a disruptor in the eyes of some in a sport dominated by black women.
Clark being left off of the U.S. Paris Olympic roster is one of the dumbest decisions in modern sports history. USA women's basketball was handed a gift to grow the game globally, have media and fans from around the world get a glimpse at the biggest superstar in the sport, yet decided to leave her at home at the risk of her being a distraction as opposed to a blessing.
But remember, if you're of that opinion, you may want to keep it to yourself because someone at ESPN may accuse you of being a racist on national television.