Resurfaced footage of WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson talking about white privilege goes VIRAL — 'It was a message being sent to Caitlin Clark'



WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson is going viral but not for anything she did on the court. The Aces center is currently under fire for a resurfaced clip from a year ago that’s already garnered over 20 million views on X.

Jason Whitlock and Steve Kim discuss the damning footage.

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In the video, Wilson, who’s courtside, tells teammate Kelsey Plum the following:

“Us, as black women, Paige [Bueckers] reminds me a lot of you. Like you say, ‘It’s not really about me.’ She knows. And she knows how her privilege has gotten her to that point,” Wilson told Plum.

“And also, like, she’s good at basketball, obviously. Like, she understands her privilege. It’s, like, what pushes her over the top in a sense. It reminds me a lot of you, and I mean that as a compliment,” Wilson continued, “praising” Plum.

Steve translates Wilson’s comments: “Hey white girl. You know what, you cracker a** cracker, you have a lot of white guilt, and I approve.”

“This is the problem that a lot of people have with Caitlin Clark fans and supporters — they don't buy into [the white privilege narrative],” he explains, adding that “one of the more interesting aspects of this fan-hood is that some of the biggest supporters of Caitlin Clark are not whites; they're actually black males.”

“Many of these people, like A’ja, are so used to being able to dispense and force white guilt upon others that when people don't comply, then it becomes something they can't even handle,” Steve continues. “This [WNBA] playoff ratings dip post Caitlin Clark is the sports version of white flight and gentrification.”

Jason agrees, calling Steve’s comparison “a good analogy.”

Wilson’s comment “was a message being sent to Caitlin Clark,” he says, adding that it’s also “a message to Nike.”

“A’ja Wilson has a signature shoe and logo with Nike. No one's going to buy her shoe; no one cares, but Nike is bending over backwards trying to please A’ja Wilson and Dawn Staley and the whole BLM crowd by” acting like they have “to promote A’ja first.”

“So there's a mindset that A’ja has to adopt to justify getting treatment she knows she doesn't deserve,” says Jason, comparing Wilson to retired NBA player Tim Duncan, who he says was a great player but not one who sold shoes.

“She has to adopt this mindset of ‘I'm owed this, and you white girls need to back your a** up while I get what's owed to me,” he explains, calling it “endless reparations.”

Steve says the marketing of A’ja Wilson’s shoe is basically just suppressing Caitlin Clark’s up-and-coming shoe.

“They are marketing A’ja Wilson by suppressing anything having to do with the most popular player in the league by far,” he says, joking that Clark’s shoe needs to be named “Air Suppression.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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White privilege banner directed at Catholic HS before football game infuriates parents: 'It's not right'



Cheerleaders from a North Carolina high school held up a red banner before a football game Friday directed at their opponents — a Catholic high school — which read, "Sniff, sniff. You smell that? $Privilege$."

The word "privilege" was spelled out with white letters — and parents and other backers of Charlotte Catholic High School were furious and hurt over the banner, which the visiting Butler players ran through.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

What are the details?

The station said Melissa Swanson and her son — who is a fourth-grader and biracial — attended Charlotte Catholic's home football game against Butler High School. And she offered WBTV-TV her interpretation of the banner, which the Butler players ran through: "Here we are at a rich, white high school, and they're all lucky. We have it hard. They don't."

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Swanson continued to the station: "And that's not the case — by no means. I am a single mom, and I raise my son on my own, and we pay for that school and work hard to be there."

She also told WBTV that she had to explain the banner to her son when he asked, "Mom, don't they see that we have other black boys on our team?"

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"I just said it's unfortunate that these things have to be discussed every day," Swanson added to the station. "And it's not right, and that's why I am so proud to have him at St. Gabriel and in the Catholic School system because we teach kindness."

She also emphasized to WBTV that among the most "disturbing" aspects of the incident "was it was children. Whether they are high school, elementary school, or middle school — they're children. The administration, the coaches, the athletic director — they had to know it."

How did Butler High's district respond?

Charlotte Mecklenburg School District sent the following statement to WBTV, the station said:

CMS is aware of an insensitive banner displayed by the Butler HS cheerleading squad prior to the school's football game versus Charlotte Catholic last Friday. Squad members and adults responsible for oversight will face consequences as a result of that banner display. School and district officials will offer no specific information about this disciplinary matter. Principal Golden and Learning Community Superintendent Tangela Williams have spoken with leaders from Charlotte Catholic to offer verbal apologies. Butler High School cheerleaders have sent an apology letter to counterparts at Charlotte Catholic. Soon there will be a meeting between the schools' cheerleading squads to facilitate goodwill and understanding.

Kurt Telford, principal of Charlotte Catholic, issued a forgiving statement, WBTV said:

We appreciate the outreach we've received from the Butler High School community and are confident our good relationship with them will continue. We understand how emotions surrounding sports events can sometimes result in actions that do not represent an organization's values. It is our hope that everyone will learn from such moments because at the end of the day we are all one community.

But one Butler parent backs banner creators

Alford Terry, a parent of a Butler student, told WSOC-TV he stands by the students who created the sign: "It's reality. I mean you can get upset as a parent, but kids, they have a mind of their own and they see things as what they are. We have to listen to what they have to say."

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'White privilege at its ultimate finest': Man kicked off city commission after failing to address black professor as 'doctor'



The city council of Greensboro, North Carolina, voted unanimously to oust a construction contractor from the zoning commission after a tense exchange in which he failed to address a black professor as "doctor," the Greensboro News & Record reported.

Council member Sharon Hightower last week said Tony Collins exhibited "white privilege and entitlement. And what I saw last night at the zoning commission meeting was white privilege at its ultimate finest. It was absolutely disrespectful ... to dress down an African American female was unacceptable," WFMY-TV reported.

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What are the details?

Carrie Rosario is a Greensboro citizen and an associate professor of public health education at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, the station said, adding that she holds a DrPH — a professional doctoral-level degree in public health.

During the April 19 Greensboro Zoning Commission virtual meeting, Rosario introduced herself as "Dr. Rosario" to the commission before noting her opposition to a planned development near her home, WFMY reported.

Collins pushed back against Rosario's comments — and in doing so referred to her as "Mrs. Rosario."

She then jumped in and said, "It's Dr. Rosario. Thank you. sir."

But Collins persisted, again calling her "Mrs. Rosario" — and she corrected him again.

"Well, you know, I'm sorry," he replied. "Your name on here says 'Carrie Rosario.' Hi, Carrie."

"It's Dr. Rosario," she shot back. "I [wouldn't] call you Tony, so please, sir, call me as I would like to be called. That's how I'm identified."

"It doesn't really matter," Collins replied.

"It matters to me," Rosario said. "It matters to me. And out of respect I would like you to call me by the name I'm asking you to call me by. Thank you."

"Your screen says Carrie Rosario," Collins continued.

"My name is Dr. Carrie Rosario and it really speaks very negatively of you as a commissioner to be disrespectful," she said, according to the News & Record.

"I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but you're negotiating something that happened four years ago," Collins replied, according the paper.

WFMY reported that Rosario corrected Collins five times, and he never referred to her as "doctor."

'Feeling disrespected'

Later, Rosario told the station that she introduced herself as "doctor" intentionally "because as a black woman I often am dismissed in a lot of different spaces. Some of that is because I am young looking."

She added to WFMY that "unfortunately, this is not the first microaggression I have experienced. And so like many times before, it was very frustrating. You internalize that, it wears on your body. I could feel that frustration internally building. And it hurt, that I'm in this public forum trying to do right by my neighborhood, and advocate for our needs, and our voices, and hearing him, feeling disrespected and just belittled in front of the viewers of this live broadcast."

Apology accepted

Rosario said Collins reached out to apologize and that she accepted his apology, the station reported.

"He reached out on Wednesday morning. I didn't recognize the number. He did leave a voicemail message, sharing his apologies, and that he did resign from the commission," she told WFMY. "This morning I returned the phone call to Mr. Collins. He did not pick up, but I let him know I accepted his apology, because I let him know I hold no ill will against Mr. Collins. This is an enlightening moment we can learn from."

According to the Rhino Times, Collins apologized Thursday via email to the city council.

"I understand from published reports that you voted Tuesday evening to remove me from the Greensboro Zoning Commission because of my behavior at the Zoning Commission meeting Monday evening," Collins wrote, the outlet said. "I agree with you that my exchange with Dr. Rosario was out of line and accept your judgment to remove me from the commission. I have telephoned Dr. Rosario and left a message apologizing for my behavior."'

'It's Jim Crow over and over'

Hightower also called it "ultimate disrespect of black people by one that is white," the station added. "And he feels entitled and privileged to say and behave, whatever, with no consequences, and this is what we deal with as African Americans, I get this regularly from other folks, so I know how this feels. To have you dressed down in a public forum is an ultimate insult, and this is nothing but history repeating itself over and over. It's Jim Crow over and over."

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Black Lives Matter militants harass young girls for their 'white privilege' as they walk into cheerleading competition



Black Lives Matter militants harassed groups of young girls for their "white privilege" as they walked into a cheerleading competition in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday.

What happened?

As one group of cheerleaders crossed the street into the Kentucky International Convention Center, Carmen M. Jones spelled out a message for them as she spoke into a megaphone, WDRB-TV reported.

"The reason why you get to be here in these pretty little gorgeous outfits and your gorgeous hair and your gorgeous bows is because of your white privilege," Jones said, according to the station. "Breonna [Taylor] is dead. Black mothers are burying their babies while white mothers send their daughters to cheer competitions."

Here's the clip:

Black Lives Matter activists harass a group of young children in Louisville by mocking them for their “White privil… https://t.co/mUWegDCwiO
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Jones also appeared to command the cheerleaders to "do something black today with your white privilege." WDRB also said protesters held signs and used chants with profanities as the children walked in and out of the building.

Another video shows what appears to be a protester holding a rifle as the group faces down a group of police officers in front of the convention center:

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @CIA-Simulation Warlord

In the second video Jones can be heard on the megaphone hollering — apparently to cops — "We are not afraid of you! We are not intimidated by you!"

Then as another group of young girls headed into the cheerleading competition, Jones could be heard saying "they don't give a f*** about y'all!" One of the protester's signs read, "F*** the police."

Here's the clip. (Content warning: Profanity):

Antifa guys armed semiautomatic rifles showed up with the Black Lives Matter activists to harass children who were… https://t.co/G6x5L8NSN2
— Ian Miles Cheong (@Ian Miles Cheong) 1615124839.0

One dad isn't happy

A father of cheerleaders told WDRB that protesters "were badgering them all the way in the door" and that his oldest daughter "cried for about an hour" after the interaction.

"You could see it affected all these kids," the father told the station, only giving his first name — Rob — and not showing his face on camera during an interview.

Rob told WDRB that the protesters have a right to be there but should have left children out of it: "If there's a problem within life, you keep it between adults. You don't take kids and add them into the problems. It had nothing to do with them. Even if you have something that you're passionate about. That wasn't the way to go about it."

The station said Louisville police made three arrests at the protest, and among the charges were disorderly conduct and obstructing a highway.

Black Lives Matter leader is unmoved

Jones told WDRB that she and fellow protesters stand by their words and methods: "Yes, I did tell them 'Don't be somebody that my child is going to have to fight.' Because right now I'm fighting the grandchildren, the great-grandchildren of people's ancestors who didn't do right."

She added to the station that "Breonna Taylor will never be able to have a child to be able to take to a cheer competition. If black kids are children enough, and child enough, and mature enough to go through the things that we go through as children, then their children are children enough, child enough. and mature enough to learn about their privilege."

This Saturday will be the one-year anniversary of the death of Taylor, a 26-year-old black woman shot six times by Louisville police officers during a "no-knock" search warrant at her apartment. Officers returned fire after Taylor's boyfriend fired his gun thinking he and Taylor were robbery targets. Police suspected Taylor's apartment was being used to traffic drugs, but no drugs or money were found during the search. The incident ignited public outrage and protests around the country.

'How mighty white of him': Tom Brady exudes 'height of white privilege' for not discussing past Trump support, sportswriter says



As Super Bowl weekend kicks off, one USA Today sportswriter doesn't want anyone to miss that the game's star attraction — Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 43-year-old quarterback Tom Brady — exudes the "height of white privilege."

What are the details?

In her op-ed for the paper, Nancy Armour explains that her big problem with the six-time Super Bowl champ is his past support for former President Donald Trump — and his "ability" to not talk about it when he doesn't want to. Or something.

Armour pointed out Brady's "Make America Great Again hat in his locker, the flippant endorsement of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. Only when those ties became inconvenient did Brady decide he wanted to 'stick to sports,' and that he preferred to be a beacon of positivity rather than delve into society's thorny ills."

"How mighty white of him," she added.

More from Armour's op-ed:

Brady's ability to enter and exit the debate at his choosing, to shield himself from accountability, is the height of white privilege. As this country grapples with the far reaches of systemic racism, look no further than Brady, for whom the expectations, and allowances granted, will always be different.

"Whiteness is the benefit of the doubt," said David Leonard, author of "Playing While White: Privilege and Power on and off the Field." "When Tom Brady says, 'I was just given the hat,' or 'He's just a friend of mine,' or when he skips the White House and says, 'I had a different engagement,' he gets the benefit of the doubt. He gets to be an individual. He reaps the benefits that we as white Americans reap each and every day in different contexts."

It's been five years since a MAGA hat had prime placement in Brady's locker and he replied "I hope so, that would be great" when asked if his old golfing buddy had what it took to be president. But with Brady playing in his 10th Super Bowl on Sunday, when his Tampa Bay Buccaneers will face the Kansas City Chiefs, the topic was raised anew by Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe, who said last week that no Black athlete would have gotten the pass Brady has.

On "Undisputed," Sharpe said Brady "put that hat in there for a reason: Letting you know that I support my friend Donald Trump, and no matter what he says, I support him. ... Let's just say for the sake of argument that LeBron James says, 'My friend, Minister [Louis] Farrakhan.' How would America react? You see, blacks have always had to be very, very quiet about who our friends are. They made [former] President [Barack] Obama disavow Rev. [Jeremiah] Wright! ... LeBron James can never say, a prominent black athlete can never say, 'Minister Farrakhan is just my friend.' They'd try to cancel anybody with the just mere mention of Mister Farrakhan's name — because we like Tom Brady."

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— shannon sharpe (@shannon sharpe)1611756961.0

Armour concurred, saying "Sharpe is right."

More from her op-ed:

In theory, it should not matter whether Brady supports Trump, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or someone somewhere in between on the political spectrum. He has a right to his private views.

But it was Brady himself who chose to make those private views public. If you think that MAGA hat just happened to wind up in his locker – at camera level, not buried at the bottom beneath a pile of cleats and clothes – I have a case of TB12 supplements to sell you. Brady has carefully cultivated his image over his 21-year career, whether it be his style or his social media posts, and he knew just what kind of reaction he would get.

Now, he might not have thought it would matter, since Trump's candidacy at that point was still seen as something of a stunt. But Brady has had the chance – several, in fact – to clarify or walk back his comments and has chosen not to. At the Super Bowl in 2017, three days after Trump's Muslim ban took effect. On Howard Stern's show last spring, when Trump was already beginning to sow lies about the election.

And yet again this week, less than a month after a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that was incited by Trump.

Instead, Brady has been allowed to divorce himself from it while Black athletes are made to own their views in perpetuity.

Armour then went on to bemoan former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick's "blackballing" following his kneeling in protest of police brutality and racial inequality. Although she failed to mention Kaepernick's subsequent deal with Nike — infused with social justice themes — which Money said could be worth "millions of dollars per year." Or his $1 million book deal. Or that fact that Brady "liked" Kaepernick's controversial Nike ad that led others to burn their tennis shoes and boycott the brand.

But anyway, Armour went on to say that "even Brady's aversion to talking about politics or current events is itself a form of privilege" and accused him of "moral cowardice."

"Playing While White" author Leonard offered a parting shot: "The follow-up question of, 'I'm here just to play football,' is 'Well, who's afforded that luxury? Who's allowed to see sports as this apolitical space of distraction, of pleasure, of fun?' Seeing sports and living sports as an uncontested space is the privilege of whiteness. It's the privilege of being a man. It's the privilege of being a heterosexual athlete.That is a luxury that Black athletes and other marginalized and disempowered athletes have never been afforded, inside and outside of sports."

What was the reaction?

After Armour tweeted out her op-ed, she appeared to receive her share of kudos — but a number of folks were none too pleased with her take on Brady:

  • "You lose me and all credibility when 'white privilege' and 'systemic racism' are mentioned," one commenter wrote. "If black players choose to make it about politics, that's their choice and the privilege of working for the NFL. I couldn't protest at my place of work. I'd be warned and then fired."
  • "Nobody is required to participate in your BS game of identity politics," another user said. "SJW's are not the arbiters of good in a free society. Brady's actions as a father, an athlete, and a leader put him in a place most of the people who bow down to this idiocy can never dream to attain."
  • "Another idiot savant heard from! Do us all a favor and STFUP! You are a joke," another commenter declared. "Brady never entered the political 'debate,' saying a guy you played golf with a friend is not entering the debate!! And I despise Trumpers!"

And finally, this:

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San Francisco public school teacher: Bernie Sanders in mittens at inauguration embodies 'white privilege, male privilege, and class privilege'



A San Francisco public school teacher just penned an op-ed stating that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wearing mittens at President Joe Biden's inauguration — the popular image so many people had fun with recently — embodies "white privilege, male privilege and class privilege."

Um, okay...

The author of the piece is Ingrid Seyer-Ochi — who's also a former UC Berkeley and Mills College professor and ex-Oakland Unified School District principal. She began her piece for the San Francisco Chronicle by saying a few weeks back she "processed the Capitol insurrection" with her students — notably "images of white men storming through the Capitol, fearless and with no forces to stop them."

Seyer-Ochi recalled she told her students at the time: "This is white supremacy, this is white privilege. It can be hard to pinpoint, but when we see, it, we know it."

Then she said she and her high schoolers "analyzed images from the inauguration."

The question again was, "What do we see?"

Seyer-Ochi's answer was that, "We saw diversity, creativity and humanity, and a nation embracing all of this and more."

And while she acknowledged that Sanders "was barely on our radar" on Inauguration Day, the following day "he was everywhere."

Mittens of 'white privilege'

"What do we see?" Seyer-Ochi recalled in her op-ed asking her students once more. The answer?

"They saw a white man in a puffy jacket and huge mittens, distant not only in his social distancing, but in his demeanor and attire."

More from her op-ed:

We talked about gender and the possible meanings of the attire chosen by Vice President Kamala Harris, Dr. Jill Biden, the Biden grandchildren, Michelle Obama, Amanda Gorman and others. We referenced the female warriors inspiring these women, the colors of their educational degrees and their monochromatic ensembles of pure power.

And there, across all of our news and social media feeds, was Bernie: Bernie memes, Bernie sweatshirts, endless love for Bernie. I puzzled and fumed as an individual as I strove to be my best possible teacher. What did I see? What did I think my students should see? A wealthy, incredibly well-educated and -privileged white man, showing up for perhaps the most important ritual of the decade, in a puffy jacket and huge mittens.

I mean in no way to overstate the parallels. Sen. Sanders is no white supremacist insurrectionist. But he manifests privilege, white privilege, male privilege and class privilege, in ways that my students could see and feel.

Seyer-Ochi noted that when her students saw Sanders "manifesting privilege, when seemingly no one else did, I struggled to explain that disparity. I am beyond puzzled as to why so many are loving the images of Bernie and his gloves."

"I don't know many poor, or working class, or female, or struggling-to-be-taken-seriously folk who would show up at the inauguration of our 46th president dressed like Bernie," she added in her piece. "Unless those same folk had privilege. Which they don't."

What was the reaction?

When the Chronicle tweeted out Seyer-Ochi's op-ed Monday, it will come as no surprise that not everybody was on board with her perspective:

  • "It was literally almost 2 weeks ago. It's a pair of mittens. Seek help. Please," one commenter requested.
  • "When he turned around and used that moment to raise millions for charity that was also traumatizing for my students..." another commenter said.
  • "I cannot overstate how much I hate this and how damaging s**t like this is to the left," another user noted. "Did they want him to wear a dashiki!?! I mean what the f***!? He is an old man trying not to f***ing freeze to death in DC in January."

And one user made this observation:

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