{"id":653355,"date":"2026-08-17T16:45:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=653355"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:45:48","slug":"whitlock-says-black-queers-take-exception-to-white-women-in-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=653355","title":{"rendered":"Whitlock says \u2018Black queers\u2019 take exception to white women in basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jason Whitlock did not pull any punches in describing what he believes is at the root of WNBA controversies.<\/p>\n

Speaking to CNN\u2019s Michael Smerconish, the sports pundit explained why we are seeing frequent stories about the mistreatment faced by WNBA stars Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark. Whitlock claims that the \u201cBlack queers\u201d who play the sport take exception to white women being made the de facto face of the league, and are therefore targeting the girls for essentially being more popular.<\/p>\n

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Smerconish opened the conversation by referring to the vicious clothesline Cunningham received from Chicago Sky player DiJonai Carrington, which resulted in a foul and Carrington being ejected from the game. Moments after leaving, the Sky star would post \u201cWHITE PRIVILEGE\u201d on social media, leading many to wonder whether the behavior toward the white players was racially motivated. For the record, Cunningham declined to say the move was race-based, and Carrington also rejected the accusation that her post was a callout of the foul she received.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs the controversy driven by race, by politics or just competition?\u201d the host asked Whitlock.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s all three, but I would probably add a fourth \u2014 sexuality and sexual identity,\u201d he responded bluntly. \u201cThe WNBA, if you listen to a lot of their players, they consider themselves a black, queer league. And Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham aren\u2019t black and queer \u2014 and particularly as it relates to Caitlin Clark, she\u2019s come in and had a huge impact on the league, who actually watches the league, and in competition there is a natural jealousy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo some of this is just natural, but some of it is driven by who\u2019s going to define the league, who\u2019s going to represent the league,\u201d he continued. \u201cThere\u2019s this whole big controversy about who\u2019s going to be the face of the league. It is Caitlin Clark. I think the black queers in the league who felt they built this league and it\u2019s their league are in objection to that. And so you know it\u2018s a pie, and I would probably put sexuality at the top of the list and then race second. And then probably just competition in the natural jealousy that comes along with competition as third.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smerconish offered resistance to this categorization<\/p>\n

\u201cFor what it\u2018s worth, I went looking; we cited peer-reviewed data. I went looking for any data, any analysis as to whether there was racial animus driving any of those moments that we constantly see on a loop, especially on some networks. And by the way, then I asked Claude to do it for me. Fable five, very interesting analysis, which I published today, and it comes back saying it\u2018s all proportional. There\u2018s no evidence that it\u2018s being driven by race. So let me ask you, what\u2018s your evidence that it\u2018s driven by sexuality?\u201d the host pressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the ladies actually say in the league,\u201d Whitlock said. \u201cTake [Sydney] Colson, that played in the league for 12 years; she was Caitlin Clark\u2019s teammate last year. If you actually listen to what the ladies in the league say, like a Syd Colson, who just last week on her podcast said, hey, look, this is a black queer league. We get to define what is appropriate in this league; that this is about the whole transgender issue, whether or not transitioning men into womanhood should be allowed to play in the league. And someone like Syd Colson says loudly and proudly, as a black queer person, as black queers that dominate the league, we get to decide that no one else.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jason Whitlock did not pull any punches in describing what he believes is at the root of WNBA controversies. Speaking to CNN\u2019s Michael Smerconish, the sports pundit explained why we are seeing frequent stories about the mistreatment faced by WNBA stars Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark. Whitlock claims that the \u201cBlack queers\u201d who play the… Continue reading Whitlock says \u2018Black queers\u2019 take exception to white women in basketball<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":653356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/653356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}