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The Racist Plot to Retire Caitlin Clark from the WNBA

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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.  

I don’t watch much Women’s National Basketball Association games. Apparently most Americans have not in the past. But there was an incident the other day between two teams, the Phoenix Mercury and the Indiana Fever, and the sensation of women’s basketball is six-foot-tall former Iowa college basketball sensation, Caitlin Clark.

She was playing this game, and she was knocked down. Two or three of the Phoenix Mercury team members kind of swarmed her. She almost got a knee in the head, and one player, Alyssa Thomas, was sort of resting on her and then took her fist and pressed right onto her jugular vein or throat on her neck. 

If that had happened just out in public, the public sphere—if you saw somebody knock somebody down and then sort of rest on top of them and put that on their neck—it would be a felony assault.  

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But this was in a basketball game. And what made it worse was the referees were right there. They not only did not call a flagrant foul, they didn’t react to it. 

It was only when the people who were watching the game got so angry in public opinion that the league then, I guess, forced the referees to rescind, and they assessed Thomas a foul, but it was only a one-day suspension. 

So what is going on? Well, what’s going on, according to the popular press—I’m not sure I’m qualified to adjudicate that—is that the league is mostly 65% to 70% black. 

It kind of mirror-images, it’s a completely meritocratic league. It mirror-images the NBA, and many of the black players, as true of women’s sports, has a higher percentage of lesbians than the normal population. And all of a sudden, this white girl from Iowa, six feet tall, who you might think would be under the basket rebounding in women’s basketball— 

She’s kind of lanky, but she turns out to be one of the best outside shooters in the history of women’s basketball. So for her first two seasons, she was roughed up a bit, but she took the league by........

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