The Racial Politics of A White Woman Driving The Lane

The WNBA and Caitlin Clark’s Civil Rights is the headline above an opinion piece written by Sean McLean, a lobbyist and former staffer for Ted Cruz and Marsha Blackburn. McLean argues that the WNBA ‘has fostered a hostile workplace’ for Clark because she gets fouled a lot by black players who target her out of racial animus. By paragraph nine, McLean is citing Supreme Court cases, and by paragraph 15 he’s calling for a full Congressional investigation into the WNBA.

“McLean is far from the first right-wing freak to imply that the WNBA is being run by a cabal of black lesbians who are out to injure Caitlin Clark, but he is surely the first to do so while invoking the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

“We are now one step closer to Trump standing on the tarmac outside Air Force One and yelling, ‘We’re looking at what’s happening with Caitlin and we’re going to make sure everything with fouls is perfect,’ followed by a headline announcing that the WNBA will pay a $50 million fine to avoid a civil rights investigation.”

— “Wall Street Journal Calls for Congressional Investigation into Caitlin Clark Getting Fouled,” The Defector


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