WNBA announcer wants Caitlin Clark to be more ‘proactive’ in spreading woke stories

Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark has set numerous rookie and WNBA records, brought record viewership and attendance numbers for the league, and made a previously irrelevant league mainstream – all in her first season. What more could she possibly do for the WNBA?

A lot more, according to Ros Gold-Onwude, a woke media personality who works as a broadcaster for the New York Liberty. 

Earlier this week, she appeared on “The Dan Le Batard Show,” which should have been your first indication that you were about to hear something dumb. She accused Clark of not being “proactive” enough in condemning the (usually baseless) accusations of her fans being racist.

“Caitlin has not had a proactive approach around toxic fandom, or…being proactive against any type of hateful discourse around the WNBA and its players,” Gold-Onwude said.

Thankfully, she did recognize that Clark has condemned these actions when asked. But apparently, Clark has to spend more time online condemning trolls for Gold-Onwude to be happy – and that’s just the first item on her list.

Gold-Onwude Wants Clark To Use Her Popularity To Ben An ‘Ally’ To Black Players

She then transitioned to how Clark must use her popularity (which many past and present WNBA players have been jealous of) to fight against injustice for the black and or LGBT players scattered throughout the league.

“This is where she has agency, in how loud of an advocate she wants to be…for fellow WNBA players, for her teammates…for the most part are majority black women, a number of people identify as LGBTQ,” Gold-Onwude said. “It’s her choice how she wants to participate as someone who is willing to say, ‘I am them and they are me,’ and anything nasty is unacceptable…and to do that on her own.”

She then tried to give Clark a little bit of grace for not being a hard-core social justice warrior (like literally everyone else in the WNBA), but did so by condescendingly calling her uneducated about racial tensions in America.

“For us, we expect a 22-year-old to have the right words to address the racial tensions in America, or even to have the right strategy or strategy…or how her lack of participation could to be perceived, it requires a certain level of education,” she said.

I don’t think Clark needs to know about racial tensions in America, you just have to watch the news to see that it’s bad. But what Gold-Onwude really wants is for Clark to only see racism from a black perspective, which, in reality, is critical race theory (and in this case, applied to the WNBA).

That’s the kind of education she hopes Clark receives this offseason.

“I’ll be interested to see how Caitlin uses this offseason to reflect, to educate herself…and see how she responds this offseason and next season in terms of deciding if and how she wants to participate as an advocate (against) the speeches hateful,” Gold-Onwude said.

Clark should avoid at all costs what Gold-Onwude wants her to do

I’m starting to wonder if the requirement to work in the WNBA is progressive and stupid (which are more often than not one and the same thing).

Since joining the league, Clark has praised past and current WNBA stars and highlighted everything they have done for the league.

She also said she was devastated to learn Angel Reese’s season-ending injurydespite the fact that Reese seems to vehemently hate her with everything she has. And as noted above, she condemned all of her fans who acted immaturely or toxically towards other players.

All of these things are good things, but the best thing she did was not use his platform to play politics. It’s the players’ widespread political activism and progressive posturing that is driving many potential WNBA fans away from the game. Clark is popular because she avoids that, and she would do well to continue to do so.

By the way, the women Gold-Onwude wants Clark to defend said: she’s only popular because she’s whitecommitted a impressive number of flagrant fouls against her, and celebrated his failures just because they are petty. I’m not saying you should hold grudges against these people forever, but if I were in Clark’s shoes, I wouldn’t be motivated to advocate for the fabricated and imaginary injustice these players keep complaining about .

So far in her young career, Clark has been hardworking, electric to watch, humble in the face of praise, steady in the face of adversity – and hasn’t woken up. She shouldn’t use this offseason to change that, despite the fact that Gold-Onwude wants to.