Racism should not be judged as one thing when one person does it and a different thing when another person does it.
One of the big kerfuffles in women’s sports right now is only tangentially about sports. It’s mostly about race.
It involves, also tangentially, Caitlin Clark, the sharpshooting basketball phenom for the University of Iowa who is tearing through college records like they were so many tissue-paper intramural defenses. Last week she bested Pete Maravich’s all-time scoring record of 3,667 points in a game against Ohio State. She’s currently at 3,771 points as the Hawkeyes get ready for what will almost certainly be a No. 1 seed in next week’s NCAA tournament.
