A host of The View has claimed where Indiana Fever basketball player, Caitlin Clark , gets her popularity from. On Wednesday 22 May, the hosts were discussing a recent article written by the Los Angeles Times in which former ESPN host Jemele Hill told the outlet that Clark’s race and sexuality played into why she is a popular player. “We would all be very naive if we didn’t say race and her sexuality played a role in her popularity,” the contributing writer for The Atlantic told the outlet.
“While so many people are happy for Caitlin’s success – including the players; this has had such an enormous impact on the game – there is a part of it that is a little problematic because of what it says about the worth and the marketability of the players who are already there.” Sunny Hostin, reflected on being a basketball fan for as long as she could remember and being appreciative of the increase in attention and viewership that Clark was generating through her record-breaking games, but she agreed with Hill’s opinion that her race and sexuality played a part in her success. “I do think that there is a thing called pretty privilege.
There is a thing called white privilege,” she told her fellow hosts. “There is a thing called tall privilege, and we have to acknowledge that, and so part of it is about race, because if you think about the Brittney Griners of the world, why did she have to go play in Russia? Because they (the WNBA) wouldn’t pay her.” “Now C.
