Jemele Hill States Chennedy Carter, Not Caitlin Clark, Is The Victim

The usual suspects in the sports media continue to downplay Chennedy Carter's cheap shot on Caitlin Clark during a matchup last Saturday. But we hadn't yet seen anyone claim that Carter is the victim.

Then Jemele Hill weighed in.

Hill sympathized with Carter in an X post on Tuesday. She credited Carter for showing "resolve" during a loss against the New York Liberty. 

 "I’m guessing it’s been a rough couple days for Chennedy Carter, but she is showing some serious resolve,"Hil postedl. "She’s played an incredible first half against the Liberty. Has 15 so far and helped them climb out of a double-digit lead. Lost in all the conversation is that she is a baller. #WNBA."

Hmm. 

Let's recap:

Chennedy Carter charged at Caitlin Clark while calling her a "bitch." Carter then "liked" posts on X telling her to injure Clark and posts joking about Clark's race. 

The WNBA didn't fine or suspend Carter for targeting a player on the court with whom she admitted to having a personal problem. 

Yet according to the Race Lady, Carter had a "rough couple of days."

All that defense from ESPN, USA Today, and "The View" must have taken a toll on Carter. 

As we warned over the weekend, someone will seriously injure Clark on the basketball court if the media continues to stoke the racial hostility around her. 

Predictably, the likes of Hill, Monica McNuttjob, and Chiney Ogwumike spent the past week more concerned about protecting Carter's image than Clark's safety. 

Carter is not a victim. Nor is her teammate Angel Reese, who cheered when Carter slammed Clark to the floor. Carter and Reese are bitter women who no one outside of hardcore basketball fans had heard of until they picked a fight with Clark. 

Even Dan Patrick, one of the least polarizing sports pundits of this generation, admitted so about Reese on Thursday.

"But her attention, her notoriety is based off Caitlin Clark because she wins the national title, the first thing she does is mock Caitlin Clark," Patrick said on his radio show. "And then, she doesn’t even celebrate with her teammates. So, she’s made it personal with Caitlin Clark. Then, she’s played off of that.

"WNBA has been around a couple of decades and people didn’t notice the game – they’re noticing it now. Well, that’s because of Caitlin Clark, not Angel Reese," Patrick added. 

Moreover, Carter is only in the news because she chose to commit a dirty foul and acted like an envious brat in the aftermath during the postgame presser and on social media.

But, honestly, the facts do not matter here. The conversation around Caitlin Clark is tribal, political and racial. And for rabble-rousers like Hill, the conversation is an opportunity. 

Jemele Hill is a former sports columnist. She covered the WNBA for a few seasons. She knows what's happening to Clark is wrong. She understands the racial hostility, which she helped inflame, has led to most of the animus black women have toward Clark.

However, Hill made a decision when she left ESPN to be the Joy Reid of sports. And defending ghoulish women of color against the little white girl from Iowa is part of the brand she built.