Time Magazine named Donald Trump its “Person of Year” for the second time on Friday, and earlier in the week the outlet announced basketball star Caitlin Clark as its “Athlete of the Year.”
This woman is like the Michael Jordan of the WNBA. She finished up her college career at Iowa in March and then was picked first in the WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever in April. She helped her team make the playoffs and ended the season with Rookie of the Year and All-WNBA first team honors. She has become a phenom. And that is, in part, because the players of the WNBA can’t stand her. Why can’t they stand her? Because she is white. It is abject, absolute racism.
One of the things that has been admirable about Clark is she just continues to play her game. She puts points on the board, she puts butts in the seats, and she gets people tuning in on television. And all we really want to hear from anybody about this is, ‘Thank you, Caitlin Clark , for making our league relevant.’ Instead, she has been bullied repeatedly by the players in the WNBA.
The Time Interview
So, Caitlin Clark gets this title from Time Magazine and all she has to do is continue staying above it. ‘Thank you. I’m grateful. Love being in the WNBA. I love my teammates.’ That is it. But she didn’t go that route. She decided to go racial and say she feels the need to acknowledge her “white privilege.” Here is what she told Time:
“I want to say I’ve earned every single thing, but as a white person, there is privilege. A lot of those players in the league that have been really good have been [b]lack players. This league has kind of been built on them. The more we can appreciate that, highlight that, talk about that, and then continue to have brands and companies invest in those players that have made this league incredible, I think it’s very important. I have to continue to try to change that. The more we can elevate [b]lack women, that’s going to be a beautiful thing.”
Basically, she is sorry she is white. She feels really bad about it though, so you should give her a pass. And then she makes a point of saying the ones we really need to be celebrating are the black women on whose backs this league was built, which is so condescending.
It is true that most of these black women have been bullying her and want her to understand that it is their league. But hello, blacks don’t own the league. Nobody owns the league. This is America. Anybody can play if they are good enough, but they want her on the knee. It’s like, ‘You will bend the knee. And you’ll apologize for being white. And you will suck up to the black women who built this league before you. Or you will be beaten, you will be assaulted, and you will be bullied with no friends.’
And she finally did it. She bent the knee and self-flagellated over white privilege. And I have to tell you, if I were a black woman in the WNBA, I think I would say, ‘Screw you. Don’t treat me like I am the ugly stepsister, you are Cinderella, and no prince is gonna look at me unless you say to put her in the spotlight for a moment.’ I would be genuinely offended by her being like, ‘Look over there. Look at them. They are not white, and they did a lot too.’
Here is the other thing: It is totally insincere. If Caitlin Clark really felt uncomfortable in the spotlight as the newbie who is white because ‘white people didn’t build the league,’ she wouldn’t have said yes to being Time Magazine’s “Athlete of the Year.” Either walk the walk or don’t, but what she is doing here is trying to have it both ways.
The Follow-Up
I posted about this on X earlier this week when the news first dropped with the same sentiments. It apparently got some attention because Clark was asked to respond to my tweet at the annual Time dinner celebrating its ‘person of the year’ honors.
NBC Sports host Maria Taylor asked her: “Earlier today, Megyn Kelly, she was saying that you were apologizing for your white privilege and the fact that you wanted to uplift black female athletes to make sure that they were getting the shine– kind of like your pioneers were getting the shine they deserved. And I just want to know how you feel or how you respond to some of those criticisms…?”
And here is what she said:
“I feel like I always have had good perspective on everything that’s kind of happened in my life, whether that’s been good, whether that’s been bad. And then obviously coming to the WNBA, like I said, I feel like I’ve earned every single thing that’s happened to me over the course of my career.
But I also grew up a fan of this league from a very young age. My favorite player was Maya Moore. I know what this league was about… It’s only been around 25-plus years, so I know there has been so many amazing black women that have been in this league and continuing to uplift them is very important and that’s something I’m very aware of.
And like I said… I try to just be real and authentic and share my truth… I feel like one of my best skills is just blocking things out… The only opinions I really care about are the people that I love.”
That is actually smart. She shouldn’t be listening to her critics. But that is not going to stop those of us who have strong thoughts about her bending the knee from speaking out. And she did it again there with the, ‘I earned everything, but…’ Show me another athlete who has done that.
‘Too Cute by Half’
What we know about Caitlin Clark is she is reportedly dating some very woke leftist. We know she ‘liked’ Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris on Instagram, so she seems to be telegraphing something about her politics even though she doesn’t often tweet or post about politics. There isn’t a Trump voter in the world that would have ‘liked’ the Taylor Swift endorsement of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
This is the first real window we are getting into the way she thinks, and she is definitely a Democrat – and probably a leftist – who believes this crap. I could care less if she is a Democrat. A lot of people I love are Democrats. It is not about that. It is about this sick ideology and the fact that she got down on both knees, begged for forgiveness for her whiteness, and then was condescending to the black women in the league while she did it. It was an utter fail.
You are too cute by half, Caitlin, and you have managed to piss off your fan base. You will never appease the race bullies in the WNBA because you are too popular. You are too talented. And you are too white. That’s it.
You can check out Megyn’s full analysis by tuning in to episode 963 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.