Caitlin Clark’s Cult Is Unraveling & Now The World Sees What Black Women Peeped From Jump: White Mediocrity [Op-Ed]
Caitlin Clark’s unmasking leaves the WNBA in a slow-motion Milli Vanilli moment, exposing the unearned currency of its manufactured star. The post Caitlin Clark’s Cult Is Unraveling & Now The World Sees What Black Women Peeped From Jump: White Mediocrity [Op-Ed] appeared first on MadameNoire.
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Zora Neale Hurston once wrote, “There are years that ask questions, and years that answer.” For Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark, her fervently loyal fans, and the WNBA leadership that prematurely crowned her the face of its league, this year is shaping up to be one of those years that answers.
In Clark’s case, the question for many WNBA aficionados has not been whether she’s a good player. Bad basketball players don’t make it to the WNBA. The question has always been whether she has the work ethic, skill, temperament, and staying power to become a champion and one of the greatest women’s professional basketball players.
For seven years, spanning her college career and into the WNBA, Caitlin Clark has been the subject of a carefully constructed mythos framing her as the greatest women’s basketball player of all time without giving her a chance to earn it.
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