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Hey, everyone.
Welcome to View from the Right.
This is Gregory Hood.
I am joined once again by Paul Kersey.
And today, of all things, we're going to be talking about something which I don't think I've ever expended a single second on ever before in my entire life, which is, of course, the WNBA.
I mean, the thing is, it's so obvious that this league is just an activist organization.
And this poor kid, this white girl who is apparently the best in the sport, just seems to be laboring under the illusion that it's a real league and thought that her job was to play basketball.
And she's learning to her sorrow that her job is not to play basketball.
Her job was to be black and a lesbian and to advocate far-left political causes.
And because she just plays basketball and has a boyfriend, her career is probably already over.
Well, let's go back and let's talk about who we're discussing, Mr. Hood.
We're talking about the Iowa sensation, Caitlin Clark, who reset every record in college and women's college basketball, who was the number one draft pick by the Indianapolis franchise.
Again, as you stated so succinctly, I've never watched a WNBA game.
I've never had any interest in the WNBA.
I kind of feel like Don Imus when it comes to what he famously or infamously said about The Rutgers basketball team.
I actually, I'll tell you a quick funny anecdote.
When I was in college, I was shooting hoops with some fraternity brothers and I was asked, Hey, do you want to come scrimmage some people?
And I thought, Oh my God, are we going to scrimmage the men's team?
No, there were seven of us chosen to go scrimmage the women's college basketball team at my university that I did my undergraduate at.
And it was the most painful experience of my life because these, they were, the team was all black.
Basically they were the meanest, nastiest, Almost all lesbians and they would scratch you with their with their with their talons and they were just mean and they're like, hey, you guys are great.
You want to do this again?
We're like, no, never again.
So that was my last interaction with women's basketball until the whole Caitlin Clark stuff, Mr. Hood.
Well, one of the interesting things about all of this is that The WNBA has been basically boycotted by actual basketball fans because nobody wants to see girls play basketball.
I mean, there's no reason for it.
There's no reason that if you actually care about the sport, you're going to watch people who just can't perform at the level of even a what college or high school boys team.
But it's been basically a loss leader for the NBA.
I mean, it's essentially subsidized by them.
And for that reason, it's a favorite of sports journalists for a long time.
I mean, notice this back in the 90s and even 2000s, there was this undercurrent of sports journalists who basically saw this as a way of carrying forward far left politics.
It's the same sort of thing that happened with video game journalism.
It's the same sort of thing that happened with entertainment journalism.
And it was under the surface for a long time in the 90s and 2000s.
I would say the average sports coverage was right of center.
I mean, remember you had Rush Limbaugh as a color commentator in the NFL for a little while.
Now it's just taken for granted that the purpose of sports is to advocate this far-left political agenda.
And if you're watching these things, we keep waiting for ordinary white people to say like, okay, that's enough.
I'm not watching this anymore, but they never do.
But the WNBA is unique because It's not a cover for far-left activism.
That's all it is.
Like, you watch it to show that you're a better person than other people.
You watch it to brag about it.
You watch it the same way you drink expensive hoppy beer that nobody actually likes just to say that you have better taste than everyone.
And now you have, who essentially is the best player in possibly this entire sport of all time, and certainly somebody who could actually make this league profitable, and they don't want it.
And it has a bigger lesson when it goes to entertainment, when it goes to video games, when it goes to all of these things, which is that the purpose of these industries is not to make money.
Conservatives say things like, well, they all want to make money.
They're all in for business.
No, they're not.
That's not the point at all.
And in fact, they will voluntarily choose not to make money for the sake of ideology, because frankly, they believe in it more than other people do.
So fun stats for you real quick.
The WNBA has been around for a little more than two decades.
It currently is 80% BIPOC, about 71% Black.
The League is 33% LGBTQ, which is an extraordinary figure when you think about that, Mr. Hood, just how gay the League is.
And if we can talk about this, how fake the League is, because as you noted, The NBA provides the WNBA with an annual endowment of over $15 million.
This financial support helps cover various operating costs for WNBA teams, including facilities, travel, marketing, administration.
As of 2023, the NBA owns 50% of the franchises of the WNBA, while the 12 WNBA teams collectively own the other 50%.
So yeah, this is not They are profitable and it's one of the reasons why they're paying Caitlin Clark.
I think her initial salary, if you remember when she was drafted, I think she was making about $74,000 a year as this draft pick.
And, you know, she's obviously signed some huge contracts to be a spokesperson because again, she's a she's a she's she's a very attractive athlete in terms of when you look at her compared to the other athletes and the comparison of these Very masculine, tatted-out, rotund black players.
You know, Angel Reese is a player from LSU, a black player.
They call her the Black Barbie.
And they've had a pretty big battle at LSU and Iowa over the years.
And just the resentment that you see toward Kaitlyn Clark, the racial resentment, is so palpable out there.
Because she's come in and drafted by a really low-level team, so obviously not much talent on her team, but she started to hold her own.
I did not see this until recently, but did you see the cheap shot that was done against her that everyone?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's that's the kind of stuff that she's going to face when you're it's basically this is a white girl coming on to black territory.
We own this.
How dare you come here?
How dare you bring all these eyeballs?
How dare people want to come and actually watch games?
And pay ticket and basically, you know, it's in a lot of ways, Caitlin Clark, Mr. Hood, you're going to laugh at this comparison, but she's kind of like the Taylor Swift phenomenon.
There are people now who buy her jerseys and they just go to these games and they go watch as many games as they can of hers because they resonate.
You know, it's almost that implicit whiteness that's like, finally we have someone worth cheering about.
Finally, someone whose values, you know, yeah, they might at one point ape and say things, that the status quo demands them to say, but at the same
time, their mere existing in an island of blackness is such a, um, it's so intoxicating. Well, it's
an in- It's an insult to the whole system.
And I mean, the problem for her is that now she's going to get the wrong type of fans and the wrong type of supporters.
Because now you have Republicans saying that she let's back up a second.
The big news right now, of course, is that she was excluded from the Olympic team.
Yeah, everybody's saying, you know, how could this happen?
Everything else, the USA Today columnist actually said, no, this is actually a good thing for her
because she needs rest or something like that. They're trying, it's for her own good, actually. But
I mean, the real reason, of course, is that the Olympic team too. I mean, you see this with the
women's soccer team is that the Olympic team is not about representing the country.
It's about insulting the country.
It's about subverting the country.
It's about showing people that, haha, we hate the country, but we get to wear your team's colors.
We get to wear your country's colors.
We get to, like, make little snarky remarks during the national anthem and screw around and everything else.
Like, that's the point of it.
That's why these things happen.
Every institution, just every institution that's been around for a while, exists simply to be subverted.
Now, of course, the WNBA is not exactly a long-lasting, venerable institution, but the idea of an Olympic team is.
And I don't think, I mean, this sounds crazy and paranoid and everything else, but you have to ask yourself, what is the rationale for this decision?
If you believe, if you truly believe that the left is right and that your, every business is run by these capitalists who are just focused on the bottom line, why would you not want The one straight white girl to be on the Olympic team when she's going to draw the most eyeballs, when she's got the talent, when she's going to sell the most jerseys, when she's going to bring in the most ratings, when she's going to turn your whole league around.
And the answer is because that's not the purpose of the league.
And to the players in the league, that's not the purpose of the league.
The purpose of the league is not playing basketball.
Playing basketball has nothing to do with the WNBA.
The purpose of the WNBA is to get profit and rent-seek from being left-wing, from being lesbian, from being non-white, from being all of these things.
That's the only reason we do it.
And of course, this is, and if you say, well, that's crazy.
I mean, what possible importance is it?
Think of what the United States government did when it traded a Russian arms dealer for a black lesbian WNBA player and left behind a Marine. Yeah, who by
the way, she is going to be representing the women. Of course, because that is what the
country is. That is what the regime is.
That is what the new America is. And of course, you know, she still couldn't keep it together as
far as the way she felt about the country and everything else. None of this matters. I mean,
national security is secondary.
The idea of rescuing somebody who had served, who showed service to the country, like this Marine who's still stuck in Russia, that's completely irrelevant.
I mean, if anything, the U.S.
government will probably be like communicating to Putin that they'd feel, they'd smile upon him if he like shot him into space or something.
The idea of even getting a trade where you're going to gain something from it, none of this matters.
The point is simply to prioritize non-whites, to prioritize victimhood narratives, to prioritize The dispossession of white people.
And when you get something like this in what they consider to be their turf, they react the same way a body does when a virus gets into it, because it is that threatening to them.
The last thing they want is for the WNBA to be popular among regular Americans, which is to say white Americans, because that's not the purpose of the league.
You know, one of the things that you have to watch are those bellwether leftists who are kind of noticing where things are going culturally wise.
I've talked about Bill Maher.
And Bill Maher, of course, came out and basically said that Caitlin Clarke's sexuality and race have played a big role in why she's being treated so unfairly by this majority BIPOC league.
And he said, you know, women's basketball got on my radar, like everybody, because of Caitlin Clarke.
And the other girls in the league are delighted for her success.
I'm joking, of course.
They effing hate her.
And he then comes out and basically says it's because, you know, the racial element to how she's been treated.
Quote, it's not always racism when a white person succeeds, he argued, against claims is only popular because she's a Caucasian.
You know, one of the things that I've been fascinated with from looking at the right wing media power structure that you and I both know so well has been Clay Travis's transformation from kind of this Barack Obama voting Goofball who wrote a couple books about college football back in the aughts Right now out kick is basically almost amaranth light in a lot of ways if you follow out kick calm Every one of those every one of their stories is steeped in a racial angle because that's what gets the pits That's what traffic on social media and they have gone all in on the Caitlin Clark is being assaulted and attacked and left off the Olympic team because of her whiteness and
And we're at the same time, the corporate media, USA Today, is publishing articles where, oh, you know, this is just a great, you know, Caitlin Clark is only benefiting from her whiteness and underprivileged.
Yeah, yeah.
It's just shocking to read this.
And if I can make this last point, I was looking at Gannett, you know, Gannett owns USA Today.
And that used to be one of the most profitable companies.
You know, they had Hundreds of newspapers that they ran.
In fact, you remember this probably.
In Virginia, they had a massive office off of 495 there in Tyson's Corner.
And they had to sell that.
Their stock is trading at $3 a share right now because nobody wants this crap.
Yes, it's subsidized by corporate sponsorship and advertisements that, of course, OutKick could never get.
But the fact is, OutKick sold to Fox.
And they know what people want.
And that's one of the reasons why I think this is a white pill.
This is actually a very exciting thing, this whole Caitlin Clark thing is,
because again, this is just implicit whiteness that, again, it only has one way to go, and that's explicit.
And it's finally when you realize that this racial resentment that athletes have faced
has been going on since integration happened.
I mean, look at- She's getting more than Jackie Robinson.
I mean, this is my gosh.
And the difference is that no one's going to make a movie and you could say like, well, that's a crazy thing to say.
It's like, no, some guy makes a comment to Jackie Robinson 60 years ago and his teammate like puts an arm around him and we have to like watch it in movies and social studies class.
I mean, that's the reality of it.
Whereas with this, the girl is being attacked.
I mean, actually, let's look at Vox real quick.
This is from a reporter named Lee Zhao.
And of course, What is her coverage?
The foul from Trinity Carter, who is the black athlete or some sort of non, who did this cheap shot against her.
The takeaway from that is not, hey, look, here's this non doing a cheap shot against a white athlete.
The takeaway is that the discussion, it sparked a debate which taps into racist and sexist tropes.
The racist and sexist tropes being obviously self-evident truths that we're not supposed to discuss.
So, and I quote from the article, the WNBA and the media are also grappling with ongoing issues
surrounding race because of a record-breaking successes in college Clark who is white has been
touted by the some.
I mean, the article begins saying, oh, hey, here's this cheap shot.
framing that's raised questions of equity, given how many WNBA stars are women of color
who haven't gotten the same due.
A growing narrative about Clark needing protection from other echoes,
echoes concerning tropes of white women as victims and black women as aggressors too.
Now again, what actually happened doesn't matter.
I mean, the article begins saying, oh, hey, here's this cheap shot.
I mean, that's the headline.
But the fact that this happened is of no importance.
In fact, it's actually something of a crime to notice that it even happened, because to say that black women can be aggressors is a trope.
The fact that it's true doesn't matter.
The trope is what's damaging.
The fact that she is under attack by non-whites doesn't matter.
The idea of white women ever being a victim is a trope, and so therefore we can't talk about it.
And the fact that she's a record breaking player also doesn't matter because again, the purpose of the WNBA is not to have people play basketball.
The purpose is to give women of color media attention for existing or something and give them money and resources and tell everybody how great they are and how evil we are for not paying enough attention.
That's the purpose of the league.
That's why it exists.
If it was about making money, if it was about having people play basketball, it was about drawing people to the games.
None of these things Are happening.
It wouldn't exist if it was about any of these things.
If they wanted it to be about these things, they'd be promoting the hell out of this girl, but they're not.
They want no part of her.
And I think that one of the most important things about all of this is that we're kind of caught into a trap here because on the one hand, it is a real thing that we're seeing and it is something worth talking about.
But on the other hand, Once you're quoting Bill Maher and once you're being like, well, even Bill Maher says, and the real problem is racism.
And you know, why can't they just treat this white girl the same?
And then we get into this sort of clickbait culture war soft thing where it's like, Oh, this girl's under attack because she's white.
The Republicans are backer.
It kind of reminds me of like the anti-transgender swimming, uh, swimming athlete and all the rest of this stuff where.
We're going to generate some clicks.
We're going to generate some heat.
We might generate some money.
We might get a right-wing celebrity out of it, although I'm sure Kate and Clark is going to say some stuff to distance herself from the right just because you can't have that much heat on her.
But what's actually going to happen as a result of all this?
I mean, are we going to end up defending the WNBA as some conservative institution that we need to reclaim or something like that?
The deeper truth here is that any time you have any kind of integrated institution, You're going to have these kinds of tensions and they all go one way.
And the issue is not so much the WNBA.
It's not even so much professional sports, although this is true in every other league.
The issue is all of American society, all of Western society, all of white society, because this is what's happening in every single school.
This is what's happening in every single neighborhood where if a black person comes into a historically white institution and gets so much as a small comment, I mean, this is actually a historical event that they're going to make movies and sitcoms and dramas about forever.
Whereas if a white person goes into a black area and gets attacked, gets anything from comments and hostility to actually being outright murdered, it's not even a story.
And in fact, the real problem is the fact that people notice it, because that could generate tropes, and tropes are more powerful than violence itself.
Yeah, you know, it's I'm actually still laughing that we're talking about the WNBA and having to bring up some of these names.
But again, it just shows where the cultural is, because there is a top down push to mean the WNBA into existence.
And what's fascinating is there's actually another white star in the WNBA who was drafted number two from Stanford.
Mr. Hood, her name is Cameron Brink.
She was one of these, and this is kind of where I think it's important we kind of go with this conversation, is college sports now with the name, image, and likeness ruling in 2020, you can actually start to make money from companies to promote stuff.
As Tim Tebow argued back in the, I think, 2014, he said, no, college athletes should never be paid because what's going to happen is the influencers are going to be probably these girls who are going to be basically using their bodies to sell products.
And of course, some of the highest paid NIL athletes are these just absolutely, let's just be blunt, drop down gorgeous blondes, like the one from LSU, Olivia Dunn.
And one was Cameron Brink, who played basketball at Stanford.
And she said this about social media and the WNBA when it came to race and stuff.
She said, quote, I could go way deeper into this, but I would just say growing up, growing the fan base to support all types of players is important.
I will acknowledge there's a privilege for the younger white players of the league.
Not always true, but there is a privilege that we have inherently and the privilege of appearing feminine.
Some of my teammates are more masculine.
Some of my teammates go by they, them pronouns.
I want to bring more acceptance to that and not just have people support us because of the way we look.
I know I can feed into that because I like to dress femininely, but that's just me.
I want everyone to be accepted, not just paid attention to because of how they look.
Now, I mean, again, let's let's be blunt.
One of the reasons why people don't watch the league is because you turn it on.
You're like, wait a second.
This is almost indistinguishable from watching a prison yard basketball game, but with less talent.
And, you know, I'm sure you've seen that meme of of like a Vanderbilt, Tennessee college women's basketball game where they're trying to shoot a layup and it goes on for Like, 30 or 40 seconds where they've got literally a two-foot shot opportunity, and they just keep kicking the ball around and fumbling over it.
It's like, wow, yeah.
And it's sort of the same thing when they have the women's soccer team, the Olympic team, play against a group of, like, school children and just get blown out.
But, I mean, you have to do that.
I mean, I remember Megan Rappenhauer, or whatever her name is.
Yep, that's her.
Her constantly being put forward, even as a political candidate, as, like, Donald Trump's biggest adversary because she's standing up to his hate.
And it's like, Donald Trump has never said anything about this stuff.
I mean, the first president, if you want to talk about the LGBTQ5 whatever thing, Donald Trump was the first presidential candidate who ran on a platform of accepting gay marriage.
So this meme that he's some far right religious fundamentalist, Donald Trump of all people, is pretty ludicrous, but it doesn't matter.
People just run with it.
This fantasy of oppression, the key thing about this is it can never, it can never be abandoned because you have not just careers, but entire industries, which are sustained entirely by this myth.
And that's why it's not just that Caitlin Clark is not being oppressed or not being attacked or not under threat or not facing hostility because they won't even say that, but actually she's the real problem.
She's the real aggressor.
So if you remember, uh, Janelle Hill, Oh, yeah. Of course.
Yeah. You know, BLM, like her whole life is just I mean, basically out of misplaced
pity, as with pretty much all black professionals, she got a career.
Yeah. Racial grievances against. Right.
And like her job is to kind of stagger her way through these little monologues
that she can barely pronounce about everybody's racist.
And what is her thing about Caitlin Clarke?
She says, we would all be very naive if we didn't say race and her sexuality played a role in her popularity.
Well, so many people are happy for Caitlin's success, including the players. Yeah, right. This has had such an
enormous impact on the game.
There's 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.
Now, let's think about this. What do we hear constantly, all the time, in video games, in movies, in politics?
Representation matters.
The most important thing is representation because people can't possibly identify with someone unless they're the same sex, unless they're the same race, unless they've got the same preferences, unless they've got the same hair color, unless they've got the same aesthetics, all of this stuff.
They just, they can't do it.
The reason we have to change every franchise, the reason we have to load every institution with unqualified people, is because we need people who quote, look like me.
Now you have a white, straight person in this league, and white girls who are straight might identify with the white, straight person playing basketball.
And what is the reaction?
This is a mortal threat.
This is offensive.
This is racist.
This shows how terrible it is that it might be marketed to the people we don't want.
And what is the real takeaway from all of this?
It's not that representation matters.
It's not that they're actually worried about marketing or worried about BIPOC not getting enough attention from the media.
It's that they don't want white people.
They don't want white people on any of these things.
And they're going to drive them out by any means necessary.
And whites are going to, maybe some white conservatives, are going to start to notice the double standards.
And we can now complain about double standards on X and isn't that great?
And yeah, it is progress from where we were five years ago.
I'm not going to deny that.
Therefore what?
Like what actually is going to come about as a result of this?
What manifests exactly?
Yeah.
I mean, we are at a point and this, this is sort of the tension is that certainly a lot of the people listening to this or they already get it, right?
I mean, you can only talk about the double standards and what would this be like if it was the other way so many times.
At the same time, for most people, they still don't get it.
And this is the only way you can actually get them to get it.
I mean, this is how most of us came into it.
You notice the double standards, you say, what's going on here?
And then gradually you figure out that no, this isn't a competence.
No, this isn't just a wacky oversight.
This is designed.
This is being done on purpose with a specific end in mind by specific people.
But most people aren't going to get that until you initially see the double standard.
And that's why it's remarkable because with this, you're, you're seeing it exposed to a constituency that normally would no longer would not think about these things in any way, but it's always been there in sports.
And it's always been there, especially, They talk about it with black athletes a lot more, like somebody will play hockey or something and, you know, it's the end of the world because he doesn't get like a starting position and all this kind of stuff.
And you even see it in sports that are totally integrated.
For example, all the caterwauling and convection about, well, there aren't enough blacks in Major League Baseball anymore.
Oh, every year.
Which is a crazy thing to say, but like, we have to hear about this every year now.
Every year there's an article in the USA Today, invariably, that bemoans the lack of black pitchers, or the lack of black Americans.
You know, the league is, I believe it's actually getting whiter and whiter.
That's one of the fascinating things as you and I both have sons.
White kids are drifting away from playing basketball and even football, and they're concentrated on baseball.
If you watch the College World Series, These teams, it's all white athletes, and I mean good-looking, strong guys who probably could excel at lacrosse and could compete in baseball and football, but they don't get recruited when they're in high school.
With baseball, you have a set amount of scholarships, and you look at these teams, like I was watching the Clemson-Florida game, and there were the paucity of blacks out there, and just the white faces.
I get why it's so popular this time of year.
I went to the College World Series, In Omaha, Nebraska, gosh, a few years ago when my alma mater played, and it was an awesome experience.
And it was a familial experience, so congenial with all the different teams.
And it's kind of like, I'm going to mention a name here that you and I know fully well, because I think you wrote something that was very important.
And that was a guy named Richard Spencer, who wrote an article about his time at Duke and the Duke basketball.
That's right.
That's right.
That's actually one of the better things he ever wrote, I thought.
I think it's a phenomenal article, and we can talk about it, because Duke To this day, I still... And that's where we went to grad school, right?
Yeah, yeah.
I had a lot of friends who went to Duke, and that was when J.J.
Reddick was there, and they had a team that was majority white before Mike Krzyzewski, the coach.
I think he got pressure, because he made a comment after a game when Duke played Butler.
And Mr. Hood, I'm not going to... This is still my favorite sporting event of all time, because at one point, there were eight white guys out of ten players on the court.
And Krzyzewski, in a Sports Illustrated article after the game, said, That was the most pure basketball game I ever coached and I
remember thinking that quote is going to get him So screwed because that was uh, butler had a guy named gordon.
Hayward who was this phenom white guy He's played in the nba for a number of years and he's he's
a kind of famous for doing these gender reveals with his beautiful
Wife he went out and played for utah and he unfortunately always has girls and
And the look on his face when he has yet another girl.
I'm not saying unfortunately.
I mean, I realize I'm being hypocritical here because I have only sons, but still.
If you want to watch a funny video, just go on and watch Gordon Hayward gender reveals.
And every time it's it comes pink and it's like, does he like die a little inside?
You can see it in his facial expression.
Yeah, exactly.
My point is my point is Duke Duke is a school that would go out of their way to bring in really good white players who found a place where they could thrive and who found a culture where that style of play was not only accepted, but at the same time by Duke fans, but it was hated by every other college because everybody has been... College basketball fans, college football fans have basically been
I don't want to say brainwash, but they had this belief that, wow, if there are these white guys in this real estate where it's primarily blacks playing, somehow it's illegitimate.
And the Duke team would get so much unnecessary hate, or what's called Duke hate, because of that and because of the white players they would have on the field.
And I think Spencer wrote, you know, it was a lot of fun to cheer for this because this is what all colleges one time looked like before integration, especially in the South.
In the 1970s, and I've written and I've read a lot about this because it is fascinating to think about what it would have been like to be able to watch some of these games when it was just a bunch of kids who actually represented the school.
It wasn't, you know, recruiting is such a huge game now, especially with NIL.
There's a photo of the University of Texas athletic facility where there's scores of Lamborghinis in front of the football coach, and that's because that's what they're going to give the guys who come play football at Texas.
That's just, they're bribing kids now to come play.
Yeah, right.
It's not about education, it's about, hey, you come to Texas, you're gonna have access to white women, like the coach at Baylor.
Oh, Baylor.
Was it Baylor who said that?
Yeah, the coach at Baylor actually said, hey guys, you want access to blonde-haired, blue-eyed white women, come play at Baylor.
And now that's the thing is, hey, you want access to Lamborghinis, you want access to, you know, $100,000 just to come play for a year, and if you don't like it, you can transfer out in the portal.
Yeah, come on here, man.
But with Duke and with the old school, The SEC and the ACC and the Southwestern Conference before it imploded.
I mean, there was so much cultural and tradition, and that's all been lost with integration.
And I think, you know, going back to even the HBCUs, I think one of the sad things about the HBCUs And correctly, I think they're right, is that these black individuals who come and play for the predominantly white institutions, they were taken advantage of.
They should have gone to HBCUs because academically they had no business being at any of the SEC, ACC, Big East, Big Ten, at these schools.
They should have been there to help build up these HBCUs and actually create wealth for those colleges.
Yeah, but they don't need the H- whatever, I can't even pronounce the acronym right now.
Those schools don't need wealth because they keep getting bailed out by the federal government.
And let's not just pin the blame on Biden here.
It was Donald Trump who was saying as part of the Platinum Plan, we're going to shovel more taxpayer money to historically black colleges and universities.
Oh, this goes back to Bush, Clinton, Reagan.
Yeah.
I mean, these, these things are just pure charities.
They're just ways of virtue signaling for white politicians, especially conservative politicians.
And academically, they're just a disaster.
I mean, the unbelievably incompetent SAT scores are very low.
None of these people can do anything when they get out except, you know, racial grievance politics, which actually is pretty profitable these days.
So what does that show us?
But I think one of the clear things, too, is how sports has essentially been, and successfully Being captured by the left and turned into a political weapon.
Now, obviously this goes back to integration.
I mean, you've written quite a bit about how integration was used to break segregation in the South, and now schools like Ole Miss and all these other schools have basically had to turn their back on all their traditions, on their heritage, on making sure, on all the things that made them what they are, basically because our blacks can beat your blacks.
And that's not even true half the time.
And the other thing, too, is that, I think it was Cast Football which wrote a lot about that, White players simply don't get recruited.
And, again, because race is not just a social construct, it's a biological thing, people are developing at different times.
And when recruiting starts, whites are not fully developed in terms of, like, their full potential.
And this is why you get all these weird stories of walk-on white players who end up dominating and becoming stars, even though they were ignored by other recruiters.
It's like, yeah, it's because you have these recruiters going after kids who are, like, the beginning of high school.
When, frankly, you just don't have an idea of where these people are going to end up.
But you have the entire system essentially set up now for these black players who are functionally illiterate, who basically don't have any skills except how to play this thing.
And that's a chancy thing.
And this is also why you end up with a lot of these black players who maybe were good in college or could have been good in college, but they take some hits.
They get screwed up with concussions and everything else.
They weren't exactly bright enough to be in college beforehand.
They're certainly not bright enough now.
Then they get tossed out on the street, and then they're another victim story.
Which, in a way, actually furthers the whole agenda.
Because then you get to these narratives about, oh, actually slavery's still in effect.
Here's this black guy who destroyed his body playing football for the entertainment of white fans, and now he has nothing.
You also get, of course, the same thing from professional athletes, who end up in the same place.
The difference is that they blow, like, a hundred million dollars first on cars and whatever else.
Yeah, I know.
It's fascinating.
I think William Roden wrote a book about the new plantation, where he bemoaned black athletes who are making all this money, yet they're still basically creating all this wealth for colleges.
And of course, the NIL program that's been implemented, it's insane because it's just destroyed the whole concept of college athletics.
But it's basically made them professional.
You can't even call them semi-pro.
It is professional.
They're professional athletes.
That's what they are.
What a college used to represent.
And you look at, say, even the first Olympics.
I mean, there was kind of this aristocratic veneer to the whole thing.
I mean, you had these sort of gentlemen scholars who were getting involved in these sports because it was just one of the things that you did along with national leadership, along with knowing Greek and Latin of the classics, along with fighting for your country.
I mean, I always think of one of the most inspiring things is in the Spanish-American War with the Rough Riders, where you had like these Ivy League Olympic athletes like joining Teddy Roosevelt's regiment so they could go fight for their country because there was this whole cult of honor and this aristocratic sense of obligation and the Americans wanted to live up to the way the Europeans acted.
Now, the idea of participating in sports, it's almost been entirely removed from ordinary people and even for kids, and I mean like real kids, not college kids, but I'm talking about like kids in grade school.
If you decide that you want your kid to play a sport and to be good at the sport, you are now making it.
It's not just driving them to practice and stuff like that.
Any dad does that, but you're now committing to sign them up for all these camps.
You're committed to signing them for all these teams.
You got to do all the, I mean, it's like trying to get into and out of the college.
You got to do all these like special things to make sure they can get to these competitive things.
And at the end of the day, if they're white, they're not wanted.
There is for lack of a better term like a glass ceiling like I'm just not gonna let you get through it
I won't say what sport it is, but I recently spent four months going all across
specific region that states to go to a travel sport where we had to basically
Give up Thursday through Sunday To drive 10 hours round trip to go watch the games because
it was a high level sport for a flippin eight-year-old. I I mean, it's this is what you have to do when you're on when you're in a travel team.
You're trying to get noticed.
That's that's the sacrifice parents are making for baseball lacrosse.
Hockey, basketball, white parents.
And I've got a lot of friends in the South who they've actually pulled their kids out of playing little league baseball and stuff because of how competitive you have to get.
They're playing 10 games a weekend.
Sometimes they're playing two double headers a day on Saturday and Sunday.
And it's like, how can you create a sense of community?
How can you know your neighbors when you're basically spending all your time on the baseball field, on the baseball diamond?
It's like, is your son really going to make the majors?
Is he going to make college?
College baseball, you know, wouldn't it be better if like, pal, when we grew up, we were out, you know, roaming around our neighborhoods playing flashlight tag.
We play pickup basketball, go to the pool, maybe go play a pickup game of football or baseball.
We weren't having to play all these structured games where you kind of lose interest in this because it becomes, it's not an avocation.
It's almost a vocation not being paid for.
And you're, you're, you're, you're eight to you're eight to 12.
You're not even middle school yet.
And it's, It is.
It's an insane way to live.
And unfortunately.
The NIL stuff in college is only gonna make it worse because so many parents now are gonna be like, oh my gosh, our kids are gonna be able to punch a ticket to this college and they're gonna be able to pick it up.
And going back to Caitlin Clark, by the way, when she was at Iowa, she was making, she was a very highly paid athlete from companies there at the University of Iowa.
Not so much the same as someone like I mentioned, the Olivia Dungirl, who is a gymnast at LSU, who has 2.5 million thirsty Instagram followers who love when she posts little photos
of her and her you know skin tight yoga pants, and I think there are some twins
These two blonde girls mr.. Hood. There's this there's dishonesty to this whole thing because you see people
I mean, it's not that like Caitlin Clark is some pinup model or something, but she's like a normal-looking white
girl I'll be tall.
She's tall, right?
Yeah.
I mean, but other than that, she's just like a normal looking white girl, but she's like normal and she has a boyfriend and that's like enough for a lot of people to go nuts.
And because you just don't see that anymore.
Yeah.
And, but, but it's just, it's, it's, it's, it's like Tebow said back in 2014, why athletes shouldn't be paid because you're going to see this weird hierarchy created where it's not about athleticism.
It's about, it's, it's, it's, it's going to become, you know, he didn't say sexual.
Everybody's an influencer.
I mean, you certainly see this, it bleeds into the larger society.
I mean, if you, there was a poll a couple of years back where they, they pulled people in China.
Now, granted, this is at a time when the Chinese system looked a lot more effective than it does now, but they asked young people in China, like, what do you want to be?
You know, kids.
And it was all like astronauts and things like that.
And then you asked like young Americans what they want to be and they want to be influencers.
Everybody.
If the problem one of the key problems with social media is it's not just that everybody wants to be a celebrity and therefore because of what female celebrity is now there's intense pressure on young women to essentially become you know soft core porn stars essentially I mean that's that's basically what happens and you certainly hear all these horror stories about the The Instagram models who then get flown around by these rich guys in the Middle East and do all this crazy stuff.
I mean, this is what happens when you have girls selling themselves on OnlyFans and you get the stories where they're making, oh, this one's making $30,000 a week or whatever.
But it's like, yeah, but most people are just selling their dignity for like $3 a month.
I mean, that's what's actually happening.
But it's bigger than all of that.
It's also that Because social media is so heavily regulated and censored now, these are the outcomes that are desired by people with power.
And if you have somebody who is putting forward explicitly a different message, or even suggesting through the way they look, through the way they act, through what they are, any kind of a different message, they're not going to be allowed to get the heights.
I mean, I think it's remarkable what happened with Thiebaud in the sense that he was successful He was certainly far more successful than a number of these black athletes who have been put up, who have gotten sponsorship deals and who have been put forward as heroes.
But there was just this, they closed ranks to make sure he couldn't get a career.
They closed ranks to make sure that he couldn't get a platform.
And they did this even though he was bringing in more attendance and fans and accessing these constituencies that you would think you would want people to go to the games.
This is one of the most important things because if you look at a guy like, I think his name is Dave Zirin.
I was like a sports journalist for the nation.
I remember him writing back in the, when I was like a teenager and first started paying attention to this kind of stuff.
And it was all these kinds of things about like, Oh, socialism.
And we need to boy, the sports teams needs to boycott this state or that state.
Cause they, they passed an immigration law.
He wanted Hank Williams, Jr.
not singing the NFL song, which of course doesn't anymore.
Uh, he wanted to make sure that, that this guy or that guy get kicked out.
And that was seen as a French thing, but this is just how it is now.
And this is what journalism now is now.
This is what sports journalism is now.
And so everything's sort of this political message where it's like Orrin McIntyre talks about in the total state where nothing is outside the political realm.
Everything is used to reinforce the message.
This is why in Europe, for example, when they have soccer games, They have the end zone say things like end racism or fight racism or this eliminationist rhetoric about exterminate racism and all this kind of stuff.
Same with the NFL post George Floyd.
They have end racism stencil in the NFL.
Of course, if you remember in the 2020 season, they allowed people to wear Names on the back of helmets for people who had been impacted by by white police violence you could have it was shocking that you could have Michael Brown's name on your on your jersey or on the back of your decal on your back of your head from the whole Darren Wilson situation and from from the suburb of St.
Louis that happened back in 2014.
It's yeah, you're right the absurdity.
I mean sports journalism basically exists to look at sports and distill it through the prism of how does this benefit blackness at the expense of whiteness?
And I think the ultimate thing that we're talking about here is the only reason we're talking about the WNBA is because the face of the WNBA now is a white heterosexual female who is above attractive, who is bringing in legions of new fans that are disrupting the game.
Because at some point people are like, well, why are we having to care about all these other girls?
And why are the, why are all these BIPOCs?
Why are these black females attacking this white girl and, and, and, and being so physical with her that it's, It's almost egregious the the extent of the physicality
that she's having to suffer but most importantly it's also crazy
To see how every sports journalist, especially black journalists sports journalists are just pulling out every
ammunition They can to just attack
whiteness and what she represents in the fan base because again it is it's disrupting what was
A game that virtually no one paid attention to a game that nobody watched a game that wasn't pop an organization that
wasn't profitable but now with the um
with the drafting of one white player
That is all it took to cause this this this again people can scoff at this all they want to listen to this podcast
But this is seriously all you hear talked about in sports media right now
This is the first time that's ever happened in the WNBA's history, and it's because of a white girl, and what that represents.
One of the keys to all of this, too, is that there's probably going to be some sort of state action.
You think I'm crazy here, but I think there's going to actually be something.
We were talking a bit about how What's happening in Europe with soccer?
I think it was just a couple days ago.
A few fans got convicted of hate speech or something like that because some black player and I think Spain whined because somebody called him a no-no word.
And so obviously the European government slept in action and through these guys, you know, ban these guys from going to games and did whatever criminal penalties at them.
I think what's going to happen with the WNBA is that if there is some sort of an incident either against Kim Clark, Something a bit more than just a cheap shot, or if we get Republicans still speaking up about her, you're going to see a counter reaction where basically people are going to say that this is actually dangerous, that even talking about this is a threat to WNBA players because the federal government has already shown that it prioritizes the security of these people just about more than anybody else.
I mean, I'm still sort of in shock from the whole hostage deal because A Russian arms dealer obviously brings more.
I mean, he was the guy Lord of War was based on, I believe.
That obviously brings more to Moscow than it does to Washington, D.C.
And we're always told about how paranoid and how crazy and how self-destructively hostile Washington is toward Russia.
But in this case, it shows what's more important.
I mean, standing up for a regime client and standing up for political constituencies like black lesbians, like that makes more sense.
to the Biden administration than does national security, or even opposing what they consider
to be their number one international foe. And as you mentioned, Brittany Grenier, who is a
black anti-white lesbian, not only in the WNBA, but she's representing the United States while
we left off this girl who would have, as everyone's saying, more people to watch.
And that is, I mean, that is representation of the country.
That is what America is now.
Exactly. You go back to when the men's team had the Olympic dream team. Do you remember this?
We were young. We were young and there was a lot of of the world.
So, thank you.
Push back when Christian Leitner was one college kid on the team.
Yeah.
Shaquille O'Neal was, was, was up for being on that, but they wanted to have, you know, this is something that Jordan and a lot of the guys talked about.
They wanted to have this kid because they thought it would bring more fans from college.
Cause he was, he was this white phenom, you know, he had just gone.
I can't remember what he went in the game against Kentucky when he hit that just unbelievable game winning shot to win one Oh four one Oh three went They threw the inbounds pass.
He caught it at the at the free throw line turnaround and just hit this swish.
So he was he was supposed to be the new great white hope and and of course there wasn't the country was so different in the early 90s and you know the sense of politics too.
I mean it was taken for granted among the black athletes on this team that representing the United States of America was an honor and a good thing and responsibility.
It was and it's not because people were better back then and everything else.
It was no the The setup of political power and the social incentives were different because if a black player said something like screw America back then, that would have been the end of his career.
He would have been out and everybody would have rejoiced that that would have happened.
Now it's profitable and so a lot of these same guys who were standing for the flag and doing all this kind of stuff in the early 90s They'd be doing BLM and all this other stuff now.
It's just because the incentives have changed people respond to power people people Consent is always dictated people do not make up their own minds.
Most people are just kind of moved around sacks of potatoes like Jonathan Bowden said and Sadly yeah, yeah and Sports is one of the greatest things examples of this because of the way it's been it's been turned into a tool of managerial control.
It's even at a kid level.
And if you're a parent, you know what I'm talking about with travel teams and everything else.
You can't just play anymore.
There's this whole legalistic regulatory system that gets set up.
You can't just have a pickup game anymore.
I mean, you might get in trouble for doing that because of liability issues.
There's all sorts of things.
There's all sorts of pressures about this and that.
And the way I think a lot of young white men are responding to it are twofold.
One, I've noticed, particularly on X, that when you get really left-wing posters who are really aggressively saying things like, oh, the Great Replacement is great.
Yeah, it's real.
And I think it's fantastic because I'm a white guy.
And when you look at the bio, 99% of the time, it's a sportscock.
It's somebody who's absolutely obsessed with sports, who derives their entire identity from sports, who, you know, put some black guy's name on their back, even though they're 45 years old.
And this is like, this is what they do.
This is their life.
This is all they are.
And the second thing in this, you could argue, maybe this is a bit more justified, but it's, it's certainly interesting, which is that fantasy sports, because now you have the disconnect.
There used to be, you could at least argue, That if you followed a franchise, there was some sense of connection to your locality, to your community, to something that had something to do with who you are.
And even when people would move, you might follow your old team.
That's like a nostalgia thing.
So when I got out of New Jersey, for example, I would still follow the Yankees and the Giants and the Devils and people like that.
But now nobody even does that.
I've found that most people don't even have favorite teams.
They have their fantasy teams.
And everything is about stat crunching.
And everything is about gambling, of course, which is like the real thing.
I mean, Scott Greer said this was one of the most effective things to depoliticize young white men is sports gambling.
Which is terrible, by the way, sports gambling.
No, it's horrible.
But like, that's why I mean, it's because it's destructive that it's Pushed.
I mean, that's why we do it.
You really saw it take off during COVID.
I remember, like, DraftKings and companies like that telling people, like, these companies are going to be huge.
You should buy into them.
And sure enough.
Exactly.
And I know you don't watch professional sports, but that's all you see.
Yeah.
But that's what it is.
That's why people watch it now.
And so the idea of even cheering for a team or caring about it, or even the stupid, lame rituals where, like, the politician shows up to the team that won the Super Bowl's rally and pretends like he had something to do with it.
All of this seems so backward-looking because nobody's really attached to the franchises anymore.
Everything is about, for whites, it's about the fantasy team that you made up and how you can make money off it.
And for blacks and other groups, it's essentially racial loyalty and the way you can send a message by pulling for the guy on your tribe.
And for journalists, for sports journalists especially, And I've noticed that journalists who are not in political journalism, sports, video games, entertainment, they're often more political than the political journalists because they see this as the way they can gain power.
They can be a bigger fish in a small pond.
And so you're going to try to insert chaos and controversy of things where there previously was no chaos or controversy.
I mean, this is what's happened with sports journalism.
So you have, you have people feeding this and you're going to see people complaining like, Oh, Republicans are politicizing what happened to Clark.
But the left started it, because they're the ones with the platform, and they're the ones pushing this kind of thing, and they're the ones saying that it's actually a problem that she's in the league, and it's actually a problem that people care, and it's actually a problem that people are mad when she gets cheap-shotted.
You could argue that it's- You know, oh, it's a trope that blacks act the same way they do in every single society throughout history.
That's just a trope.
Yeah, you could argue that it started with what happened to John Rocker, uh, back in 1999, the sports- 100%.
100%.
Uh, where he basically was forced to go undergo, uh, Soviet-esque, Re-education, which he did not go to, by the way.
Maybe one day we'll tell some of the stories, but that's not for today.
Yeah, not for today.
The only jersey I actually have is a John Rocker that I bought at the CNN Center in 1999.
But this is one of the key things.
I mean, again, I was in New Jersey at the time.
I was in North Jersey at the time.
So when he went after New York City, I mean, the local papers were scathing.
They hated his guts.
And normal people would talk about how mad they made him, how mad he made them.
But if you recall, when he would come running, charging out of the bullpen, cause that was his whole thing, the fans in Atlanta went nuts.
I mean, he got more of a following and he would think, think of something like professional wrestling where you have, again, let's think of this from a profit point of view.
If you were looking at it from just trying to get ratings.
The way leftists tell us that these companies should work.
If you were trying to get ratings, if you're trying to get revenue, if you're trying to get eyeballs, if you're trying to get earned media, you would lean into these controversies.
You would, you would actually do it like a pro wrestling thing where you'd have faces and heels and try to promote personalities, especially, I mean, not that we had social media back then, but you had kind of this proto social media age.
You could lean into these things, but that's not what they do.
They try to shut it down.
They try to make sure everybody's reading from the same catechism.
If anybody has any kind of independence, they try to drive them out of the league.
And if they can't do that, they cripple them as much as they can.
They don't actually want to be relevant.
They want to be safe.
And certainly the types of people who are moving up in these organizations now really don't know anything or even, I think, particularly care about sports.
They care about public relations.
And they care about public relations, specifically in relation to power, in relation to corporations, in relation to government, in relation to media.
Fans are secondary.
I mean, if you look at something like NASCAR even, NASCAR was just booming in popularity.
And what did they do?
They said, okay, well, you know, first we're not, we're going to stop flying the Confederate flag ourselves, but then we're also going to ban people who do it.
We're going to make sure that anybody who's been going to this for a long time isn't allowed.
We're going to promote this black driver who then, of course, embarrasses everybody with that noose thing that wasn't actually a noose, but a garage.
Yeah.
It wasn't actually a noose, but a garage ball.
The FBI actually investigated.
More than a dozen agents.
Yes.
Yes.
Because that is what they exist to do.
People are like, why is it that they're doing this?
And it just makes me want to tear my hair out.
And it's like, look, what is the purpose of a national Secret police organization.
What is the purpose of political police?
It's to protect the regime, and it's to protect the ideological premises that the regime rests upon.
And the number one premise is white racism.
Therefore, if you have a crime like this, it is far more serious than a white child being kidnapped or killed.
That has no political relevance, and it will continue to have no political relevance as long as whites have no sense of collective racial consciousness.
No one cares if someone Kills your kid.
No one cares.
The police don't care.
The media don't care.
Insofar as the politicians care, they think it's funny.
That's it.
That's the reality.
And you can, well, the pastor says that's not true.
Well, he's wrong.
Like that, that's the reality.
But if you think about what matters, what has relevance, it's when a black person is harmed because blacks have a sense of collective consciousness and are capable of collective action, or more accurately, they can be mobilized for collective action.
And Because more importantly, the narrative of white racial oppression is what justifies the whole regime because even though the regime is in power, it must constantly pretend that it's fighting against entrenched power.
It must constantly pretend that it's fighting an uphill struggle against entrenched interests.
And so that's why when you get these obvious hoaxes, everybody reacts so credulously because they're running off a script, literally off a script.
That they got from sitcoms and half remembered law and order episodes and movies where they switched the races and made a movie about it.
But the movie is the only thing anybody remembers.
Like it's just a media exercise.
And then when it blows up in everybody's face, nobody learns anything from it.
Everybody just moves on.
But this includes people even in things like sports, which fundamentally are a media thing right now.
It's about television deals.
It's about access to markets.
And so NASCAR didn't learn anything from this.
It didn't back down from any of this stuff.
It kept going.
And this is one of the key things we have to remember.
I mean, we'll see what happens with WNBA.
But I recall about a decade ago, when you really started seeing the NFL starting to politicize and everything else, and even Donald Trump used to speak about it, people were saying, well, conservatives are going to boycott it.
People are going to stop watching it.
That's not true.
The NFL is making more money than ever.
It's more popular than ever.
They did initially with Colin Kaepernick, but then Something happened and that's actually a story maybe Scott I'll talk to Scott about actually that'd be a fun podcast With him over at highly respected which again, I'd love to tout the great work as you've mentioned Scott Yeah, subscribe over to Scott Greer's sub stack highly respected.
Of course.
He's our favorite and 6'2", IQ of 187, gentleman on Twitter.
He's a great guy when it comes to discussing, really understanding what normal people are talking about and understanding where things are politically from a perspective of, well, what exactly is motivating white people?
And I think you're right.
His stuff on gambling is fascinating because it hasn't depoliticized people because that's all they're focused on, like you said.
When you're when you're when your life is is busy looking at statistics of who you're going to have be on your fantasy baseball or fantasy football team that week.
You don't really have time for anything else because that's that's the only thing that brings you joy.
Your dopamine hit is oh my God.
Justin Jefferson, you know, this guy just scored me three touchdowns.
I just got 30 points from him.
I just won the game.
Yeah, this is awesome.
It's like, dude, did you play?
Like, were you doing anything?
No, you're sitting there watching.
How pathetic can you be?
But at the same time, you have to extrapolate that out to millions of white guys around the country who are doing this because that's why fantasy sports are such a booming industry right now.
And it's only going to continue.
And I think the whole thing about the 22-year-old Caitlin Clark, which is why it's so important,
is I do think you are going to start seeing more and more white players who are going
to start dominating sports.
Like today, for instance, Madden, one of the most popular sports franchises, just came
out in McCaffrey.
The white running back for the 49ers is on the cover.
And I'm sure there's going to be articles talking about, oh my gosh, you know, this is supposed to be sacred ground for the best black player in the league.
How can we have the lone white running back on the cover of EA Sports' Madden franchise?
Do you remember when Peyton Hillis beat out Michael Vick?
He had that one good year.
He had a thousand yard rushing for the Browns.
And everyone's like, oh my God, this is racism that this white guy is on the cover.
And Michael Vick, you know, who just came back from spending years in jail for dog fighting, you know, for some of the most heinous crap imaginable, when he was doing the stuff that he was doing with the dog fights and stuff and killing these, oh God, what kind of dogs?
It's the dogs that we all.
Just some of the worst stuff imaginable.
It's just fascinating to see in a country where we aren't supposed to acknowledge that, you know, maybe there is a lot of racism against white people.
It always creeps up in the weirdest places.
And it is it is primarily in sports where that is one of the few times where there are going to be positive examples of blacks.
And I mean that, you know.
Just straightforward, like, you know, actors, you're acting, you know, anyone could get cast as an actor.
You know, it takes a lot of talent to get to the top levels of college and professional sports.
And you are, you are, like it or not, you are a, someone who's an influencer, someone who is a role model.
I mean, you mentioned, um, where you grew up, you've written before about a movie with that insufferable fat, uh, Patton Oswalt called Big Fan.
And I think that movie more than anything.
I think that was like the second column I ever wrote, something like that.
It epitomizes what a white, what a white fantasy football fan is now.
Well, it's not fantasy football.
I mean, cause that's the correct thing.
He's specifically dedicated to his local franchise, which is the Giants.
And in some ways that's actually less degraded than what we have now, which is sad.
I want to let, I want to close it here, but I'm going to let you have the last word.
Cause I want to just to point out how long this has been going on.
And this will be the last thing.
Talk to us about Pistol Pete Maravich and what happened to him because those of us who have seen, you know, who were in the basketball, who played basketball when we were younger, Pistol Pete was one of the greatest.
players of all time in terms of ball handling, the way he trained when he was a kid is just
absolutely legendary. Basically living with the basketball, dribbling it all the time,
what he was able to do with it was incredible. And in college, he was a phenom. And then in the NBA,
he was okay, but it never quite took off. So tell that story and we'll close it there.
Yeah. Pistol Pete, the life of Pistol Pete Marovic by Mark Kregel is this incredible book. And in it,
he lets slip that part of, you know, one of the main things about Pistol Pete Marovic was the
fact that he went to LSU and just dominated the game scoring 40 points a game when there
was no three-point line, Mr. Hood.
So some people have said he was maybe averaging 50 to maybe close to 60 points a game if you actually had his shots count as threes.
Well, he got drafted high by the Atlanta Hawks and there was a lot of hope that he would be one of these great white hopes because at that point the NBA was transitioning into a different game, majority black, and with the Hawks, blacks just wouldn't pass the ball and he was treated Treated with a lot of disrespect.
They thought that, oh, you're coming in, you're invading our territory.
And he finally just, he snapped one night.
Pistol Pete, you know, he was an alcoholic and he was with his teammates one night and he just snapped.
Because when he played at LSU, it was a segregated team.
It was primarily white players.
And he just snapped and said, I hate you.
I hate all of you.
End words.
End quote.
And his career, he was named one of the top 50 players all-time in the NBA, which is interesting when you look at the death of Bill Walton, who just died recently, who was a white guy who played for UCLA, Mr. Hood.
He was celebrated for being woke.
In a lot of his obituaries I read, they talked about how he was a white guy who was anti-white.
Like seriously, he was so woke that he identified so much with With BIPOCs and stuff, and here you have Pistol Pete, who I remember watching a movie about Pistol Pete, where he had to spin a basketball on his finger for an hour.
Did you ever see that movie?
Yeah.
That was, I think, what introduced me to him, which is a sad indication.
I mean, we can talk about media criticism all day, and we can talk about how everything's a psyop, and all this kind of stuff, but the fact is, especially when you're a kid, I mean, most of your ideas about heroes, and the way people should behave, and about the kinds of things you look up to, Uh, it's your family, it's your church, but a lot of people now don't have a church and it's entertainment and entertainment more than anything.
And the fact is, if you, I don't think you can fully understand, this is a separate thing and I'll close it here, but the, I don't think you can fully understand the situation young people are coming into today, because if you're old, like us, you sort of have this carryover effect of entertainment from the eighties and nineties, where.
Action heroes were masculine, they solved problems, they conquered things.
Athletes trained hard and won things.
I mean, the idea of loyalty to country was sort of taken for granted.
And there was sort of this base center-right culture, and maybe you would go left-wing, maybe you would go far-right, but that was what you were marinated in, as far as like Pat Buchanan would say.
Whereas now, You're getting the opposite.
I mean, basically, even from little kids programming, you know, I'm talking like toddlers, you're getting the LGBTQ thing from day one.
You're getting the idea that virtue comes from victimhood, that you're living in this Nazi dictatorship of America, even under Joe Biden, and you have to spend your life trying to overthrow it.
And the black criminal who murders the white kid is actually the hero.
The white kid who got murdered was actually an oppressor who got taken out.
I mean, this is all, this is all, and this is going in every children's show.
This is going in every new show.
This is going in every movie.
And of course, this is even going into sports and there was an undercurrent of it before, but now it's becoming explicit.
And the only thing that you kind of see that's promising is it's so over the top that Occasionally, even normal people notice it doesn't match up with the facts on the ground, and I think that's what's happening with the WNBA situation, and I think we'll close it there.
Yeah, and I just want to end by saying this.
I wish Caitlin Clark all the success, because again, she is an unwitting participant in a war that you and I have been fighting for years, and she's not on our side, but Mr. Hood, she is on our side, and that's why we talked about her today, if that makes sense.
Yep.
Alright guys, thanks for joining us.
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