WNBA star Caitlin Clark liked Taylor Swift's social media post endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president in 2020. The action sparked backlash from Trump supporters and right-wing commentators.
Iowa's Caitlin Clark , left, poses for a photo with WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert, right, after being selected first overall by the Indiana Fever during the first round of the WNBA basketball draft, Monday, April 15, 2024, in New York. ‘ Publisher and my father, Wilbert “Bill” Tatum, before me.
They had wrongly assumed that Clark, a native of Middle America in Des Moines, Iowa, who rose to fame as one of the best women’s college basketball players of all time at the University of Iowa, scoring the most points in NCAA Division I history for a man or woman, who had not publicly stated who she voting for, was a member of the MAGA cult or hopeful she was a passive adherent of white supremacist ideology. Two days later, Clark explained her position.
While Clark has endeared herself to teammates of all ethnicities, she has become, undeservedly, a polarizing figure along the fractured lines of race and sexual preference. Many past and present players, as well as sports and cultural pundits, contend her enormous popularity is in large part because she is white and/or that she is a heterosexual white woman in a league with many openly gay players.
Three weeks ago, Sheila Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television and owner of the WNBA’s Washington Mystics, was critical of Time Magazine for naming Clark its “Athlete of the Year.” Johnson pondered why Time “couldn’t have put the whole WNBA on that cover,” in an interview with CNN Sport.
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