If you’re like me or most normal Americans, you have probably never seen a WNBA game. You probably couldn’t name a single team, or player for that matter. However, for many other Americans that recently changed. With the arrival of WNBA rookie Caitlin Clark, a 22 year old guard for the Indiana Fever. Clark’s stardom began when she was playing for the University of Iowa where she set the NCAA career scoring record with 3,951 points. At this point you may be wondering “If the WNBA is irrelevant, why am I bringing up Caitlin Clark, and what does this have to do with politics?” I am glad you asked.
With all this new found attention brought to the WNBA you would assume the league would be happy and pleased with this situation. You would be completely reasonable to assume that. However, you are utterly wrong. Since Clark joined the WNBA there has been a 156% increase in attendance, ABC ratings for games saw a 143% increase in viewership, and increased revenue for the league. A game that featured Clark had a record breaking 1.71 million viewers setting the highest for WNBA games on ABC.
Instead of appreciating the new attention Clark has brought to what was the rotting corpse of the WNBA, the league and many in the media have begun to cry “RACISM” at the attention being brought. Of course if Clark was a black female and this success was found, the league would have a statue built in honor of this new rookie. However, many in the media and the league can’t seem to get over her “whiteness”. Take this example, 4 months ago on the world's most intelligent platform “The View” host Sunny Hostin had this to say about Clark’s success, “I do think that there is a thing called pretty privilege, there is a thing called white privilege, there is a thing called tall privilege, and we have to acknowledge that, and so part of it is about race.” Like I said, it is a very intelligent platform. Sunny Hostin has not been the only one to make this claim, another WNBA Aja Wilson made the same claim to the AP that “Clark’s success had to do also with her race.”
On top of all of this, most recently the league had something of a racism hoax that has taken place over the course of the past few weeks. With players claiming that fans are shouting racial slurs at players from the stands. Yes you heard that right, they are shouting racial slurs at WNBA games in crowded stadiums. Yet, somehow there has been no evidence to substantiate these claims besides the players own words. This makes total sense, a racist fan attends a WNBA game where the league is more than 60% black. They pay to go to this game and shout racial slurs. In a technologically advanced society they still didn’t manage to be caught on camera, very interesting to say the least. This is a last ditch effort by these ungrateful half wits to try and throw themselves back in the spotlight and claim their victim points.
This is why the Caitlin Clark Phenomenon has shined a bright light on the underlying issues surrounding the WNBA. It is a woke, ungrateful, underperforming organization that doesn’t know how to accept a star like Caitlin Clark simply because of the systemic racism this league has against successful white individuals. This is why this league will never be successful and will never break a profit, they will go back into oblivion and utter irrelevance.