Indiana Fever superstar Caitlin Clark has drawn massive amounts of criticism from fans on social media for walking out with Morgan Wallen at one of the country music star’s concerts following her season-opening loss to the Dallas Wings on Saturday.
The outrage is, in part, due to a recording of Wallen using the n-word that surfaced in 2021. Many feel that Clark, being a star in the WNBA, a league comprised and built of so many black women, shouldn’t socialize with someone with Wallen’s history. Others feel that Clark should be focusing on improving her game after shooting just 2-for-9 from three in the loss.
Now, longtime sports analyst and social media personality Jemele Hill is coming to Clark’s defense and warning that people should be wary of policing the company of others.
“I don’t know that we want to play this game about police and people’s entertainment,” Hill said on Monday’s episode of her Flagrant and Funny Podcast with Cari Champion. “Because I’m telling you, ain’t nobody gonna hold up.”
“These fans are so sensitive. They have something to say. Everyone, this generation of I have a thought and it’s important and it’s deep and it’s intellectual.” Champion added.
“I don’t know that people want to play this game of getting into policing people’s entertainment, because I promise you, everybody’s a hypocrite. No one is going to hold up to the level— to the purity test that a lot of people want to employ on others,” Hill said.
Hill is definitely right that the discourse surrounding Clark, as well as Atlanta Dream star Angel Reese, has become exhausting. Both have their own on-court holes in their game that need to be addressed, and that should be what fans concern themselves with.
What the WNBA’s stars do off the court doesn’t have to be scrutinized 24/7.
About Qwame Skinner
Qwame Skinner has loved both writing and sports his entire life. In addition to his sports coverage at Comeback Media, Qwame writes novels, and his debut; The First Casualty, an adult fantasy, is out now.