Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark owes a lot of her popularity to her race, at least according to one analyst who got honest about her thoughts on the topic. For Jason Whitlock, however, while he agrees with the sentiment, he has a deeper insight on the matter.
In one of the recent episodes of “Fearless,” Jason Whitlock talked about the recent controversial comments from analyst Monica McNutt, who gave statements that said Caitlin CXlark and her popularity was largely due to her race.
“Did you see the strategy of the white liberal woman that was there to spur on the race-baiting?” Whitlock said, referring the interviewer to McNutt. “Why though? Why have all these fans come to see Caitlin? Why? She’s trying to lob up a softball, play the race card.”
He added that McNutt’s statements have truth in them for many reasons.
“There’s that kernel and element of truth that Caitlin Clark and all the little suburban white girls that have hopped on board with the WNBA have hopped on board because Caitlyn Clark resonates with them more so than the and I’m just generalizing here than the angry black lesbians who dominate the WNBA.”
“So yes, parents in suburbia and little girls in suburbia said ‘Hey I can relate to Caitlin Clark, look at her nuclear family, look at her Catholic nuclear family, she’s like us, she has a boyfriend.’ And so there’s a lot of parents that feel real comfortable taking their kids to a game [with] their daughters and they’re like, ‘hey you can be heterosexual and play in the WNBA.”
Caitlin Clark’s Popularity Attributed to Being ‘A White Girl From The Middle of America” by Analyst
ESPN analyst Monica McNutt was on fire recently for her comments about Caitlin Clark and her fanbase, where she attributed the reigning WNBA Rookie of The Year’s popularity to her race.
“I think Caitlin represented—and again, some of this to me probably is not fair to her, because it was not anything that she said or was truly based on her personality—but she was a white girl from the middle of America,” McNutt said. “And so she represented a whole lot to many people, whether that is indeed what she ascribed to or not.”
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So far, Clark has not responded to the statements.
During the 2024 WNBA season, Caitlin Clark averaged 19.2 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 8.4 assists per game.
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