July 26, 2026
The Symbolic Lynching of Caitlyn Clark
Timothy Birdnow
Everybody's beating up on poor Caitlyn Clark these days. If it's not her opponents on the court it's USA Today.
Previously the tabloid had accused Clark of skipping a fan event "to get her hair done" when in fact she was attending a charity event in her home town of Des Moines, Now columnist Nancy Armour accuses Clark of endangering black folks with lynchings because SHE keeps getting fouled!
"It seems there is a white nationalist element to Clark’s fandom that is deeply, deeply problematic, made even more so because the WNBA is made up predominantly of Black women, many of them queer. When Clark claims fouls that don’t exist, when she goes on profanity-laced tirades at referees, those racists see her as a white woman in need of saving and take matters into their own hands. … "
So they are beating her senseless out of the milk of human kindness!
What does Armour suggest? The only option would be for Caitlyn to quit.
Things have come full circle since black people began getting into professional sports. A lot of white basketball fans despised Bill Russell when he came into the NBA. A lot of them hated Joe Louis, and hated Jack Johnson even more long before him. Or Jackie Robinson, who also was not the first black man to play pro ball - it was Moses Fleetwood Walker, who played catcher for the Toledo Blue Stockings in the American Association in 1884. Needless to say Mr. Fleetwood was not, uh, popular at that time.
So now black athletes dominate a lot of the popular sports and suddenly being white is a radical act.
My father told me Bill Russell used to get pounded by players from other teams who did so just because he was a black man in a then-white game. He saw Russell a number of times when the Celtics played the St. Louis Hawks (my dad was friends with those guys and played on their softball team.) Russell lead the Celtics against the Hawks in the 1956 NBA championship. The Hawks won, sparking a party that my father said was truly legendary.
(As an aside, my father hung out in a hotel bar where the Hawks hung out and he used to take my mother there in their early courtship, so in a way the NBA may be responsible for my being born.)
BTW Russell was not the first black player in the NBA; that honor goes to Earl Lloyd. Russell was the first black superstar, however.
At any rate what was once racism to beat up black players has now morphed into black players beating up white players and the racist tag STILL falls on the whites. I guess that's what liberals call "fair"? Generational guilt excuses it.
The WNBA was only formed in 1996 so there is not history of racism in the game. The women playing there have not experienced racism in their workplace. They just resent a white girl being better at basketball - the unofficial sport of African Americans - than are they.
What is happening in the WNBA is vile and shows exactly what is wrong with the modern DEI thinking. It is not diverse, equitable, or inclusive for all. It's only applicable where minorities are concerned. What does that make it? Black (or Hispanic) supremacism.
If the Leftists pushing such things were even remotely honest about what they believe they would admit that is the goal. They want to punish whites for having been successful. Yes, it's generational guilt in their minds, but ultimately it's about power and the joy of torturing others, people who voluntarily gave up power to give those who had been mistreated a fair shake.
Many black folks don't realize that; they think they took this power by the sheer force of their superiority.
That is why Caitlyn Clark presents such an existential threat to them. She is the equivalent of an "uppity colored man" in the old South. If it was wrong to lynch such a man then why is it o.k. to symbolically lynch a white girl now?
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Like Pro Wrestling that keeps people attracted to it using controversy the WNBA would fold due to lack of interest.
Posted by: Mike at July 26, 2026 11:23 AM (J4sZI)
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Tim... PUH--LEEZE! It's "Caitlin", there's no "y" in it. I've corrected it for you in other posts but don't have the time tonight.
Apropos of the kind of racism you're describing, I'm reminded, unpleasantly, that my favorite aunt's boss made a big stink when Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's home run record years ago... "They should have broken his fingers!" I had a hard time speaking to him for awhile after that.
Apropos of the kind of racism you're describing, I'm reminded, unpleasantly, that my favorite aunt's boss made a big stink when Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's home run record years ago... "They should have broken his fingers!" I had a hard time speaking to him for awhile after that.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 27, 2026 12:22 AM (+oLFx)
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No doubt that is part of what they are thinking Mike; gin up controversy. But it is the opposite of what the NBA did, which was take a ot of the roughness out of the game to showcase the play of black players coming in the league.
Dana - YOU try writing stuff on the pain meds I'm on!
Sauce for geese and gander. If it was wrong then (and it was) why is this any different?
Dana - YOU try writing stuff on the pain meds I'm on!
Sauce for geese and gander. If it was wrong then (and it was) why is this any different?
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at July 27, 2026 03:08 PM (oflqW)
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Don't give me any excuses, Pal. You are a professional blogger, and should at least be able to spell names that are in the news all the time correctly; Caitlin Clark's name has been in your blog many times now and there's no excuse for getting it wrong. It's unfortunate that you don't have an editor, but there it is.
I could understand getting the boss of the Ukraine's name wrong once in awhile.
But c'mon, Man. Am I going to have to start calling you Tymothi Byrdnow in order to get your attention? It's a matter of respect. And there's such a thing as checking your typing, which I have to do all the time with mine.
I could understand getting the boss of the Ukraine's name wrong once in awhile.
But c'mon, Man. Am I going to have to start calling you Tymothi Byrdnow in order to get your attention? It's a matter of respect. And there's such a thing as checking your typing, which I have to do all the time with mine.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 27, 2026 11:35 PM (+oLFx)
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