After LSU won the women's NCAA championship, white men on the internet dog-piled Reese for using the same taunting gesture that Caitlin Clark was applauded for.
In 2021, for example, a photo in which Aliyah Boston of the South Carolina Gamecocks was crying after a loss was. Rather than allowing Boston to experience anguish over a devastating game, her emotion became a meme. This year, Boston again got emotional during a presser and had to beg the press not to take pictures of her in such a vulnerable state.
of the interaction. “We, as media, have to take special precaution when it comes to recognizing implicit bias before it infiltrates our coverage.”to address accusations that her championship-winning program was too physical on the court after they lost to Iowa in the Final Four. A reporter asked how she would like to respond to other programs and teams calling her players “bullies.” For them, in-game physicality gets coded as bullying, again feeding into racist stereotypes about Black women.
“The truth about our team…We’re not barfighters. We’re not thugs. We’re not monkeys. We’re not street fighters,” Staley said. “This team exemplifies how you need to approach basketball on the court and off the court.”why she threw the Cena gesture : “I was waiting. Caitlin Clark is a hell of a player for sure. But I don’t take disrespect lightly…I had a moment at the end of the game. I was in my bag. I was in the moment.
“I was just trying to get to the handshake line and shake hands and be grateful that my team was in that position. All the credit in the world to LSU. They were tremendous. They deserve it.”championship-winning conduct and the racist double standards under which she’s being vilified“All year, I was critiqued for who I was. I don’t fit the narrative. I don’t fit the box that y’all want me to be in. I’m too hood. I’m too ghetto. Y’all told me that all year.
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