Caitlin Clark Doesn’t Want to be a MAGA Princess

MAGA is upset about it.

Rosalyn Morris
4 min readDec 16, 2024

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Caitlin Clark at the 2024 WNBA draft. Image from Wikimedia.

In America, if a Black person enters a predominantly white field, racial abuse is heaped on Black people. Also, if a white person enters a predominantly Black field, racial abuse is heaped on Black people.

This is what happened when a women’s basketball phenom, Caitlin Clark, entered the world of the WNBA. Clark, known for her speed and unique playing style not typically seen from female basketball players, brought new interest to the game. According to Sports Business Journal

The WNBA averaged 657,000 viewers for the historic 2024 regular season, its best mark in 24 years and fueled by huge numbers for Caitlin Clark’s rookie season with the Indiana Fever.

A record 22 games reached 1 million viewers across the league’s Nielsen-rated media partners (ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ION, CBS and NBA TV). The prior record was 15 games for a season in 1998. Clark played in 19 of those games that drew over 1 million viewers (and that doesn’t count the WNBA All-Star Game and WNBA Draft, which also set records this season).

Caitlin Clark is white. Some say she brings attention, and money, to the game strictly because of her game. Others say the attention she brings to the game is because of her race which overlooks the Black players who…

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