1 hour ago
At her age, title activistic Alveda King wasn't nan slightest spot amazed by nan Caitlin Clark sentiment portion penned this week by USA Today sports columnist Nancy Armour.
"I've seen each benignant of race-baiting that you tin imagine. I'm 75 years old," nan niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told OutKick connected Friday. Armour's file relating nan execution of Emmett Till to Caitlin Clark putting achromatic and lesbian WNBA players successful beingness threat didn't travel arsenic a daze to a female who has seen truthful overmuch complete her lifetime.
President Donald Trump responds to Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during a gathering pinch soul metropolis pastors astatine nan White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Aug. 1, 2018. Trump delivered remarks astatine nan roundtable chat and discussed nan administration's efforts connected situation betterment and different argumentation initiatives to amended conditions successful soul cities. (AFP via Getty Images)
King, a Fox News contributor, says this playbook by nan left-wing media is each excessively predictable.
"What group person learned to do, is to propulsion retired inflammatory, affectional phrases that will make group affectional and hide really to think. There was nary logic to propulsion Emmett Till's sanction retired there. And so, that's called race-baiting," she continued.
King's proposal to Americans is simple: Don't beryllium "misled by affectional turmoil without examining nan facts."
What are nan facts here?
NANCY ARMOUR'S DISASTROUS CAITLIN CLARK ARTICLE EXEMPLIFIES WHY SPORTSWRITING AND SPORTS MEDIA IS FAILING
As OutKick's Dan Zaksheske has written this week, Armour has utilized Clark arsenic a race-baiting target successful nan past. In 2024, nan USA Today columnist wrote that Clark needed to "call retired nan toxic conception of her instrumentality base" aft an incident pinch DiJonai Carrington that near nan Indiana Fever defender pinch a achromatic eye. For immoderate reason, Armour made Clark nan villain successful nan situation.
This season, Armour alleges, Clark is egging connected her supporters to nonstop nasty messages to WNBA players by flopping and berating refs complete no-calls. Armour's communicative is clear arsenic day: Clark is simply a problem because she's white, straight, and a immense swath of America believes she's nan champion subordinate successful nan WNBA.
Surely, Nancy has reached retired to civilian authorities pundits and title historians, right?
"No, I person not," King said erstwhile asked if she's ever heard from Armour.
USA TODAY COLUMNIST WHO ATTACKED CAITLIN CLARK GOES AFTER HERITAGE FOUNDATION 'COMING FOR' TITLE IX
What astir anyone from nan USA Today Sports department? "I person not," King responded.
Have immoderate editors ever called to adhd substance, aliases moreover replacement viewpoints to what Armour is pushing? "I don't cognize if they want to telephone me. You know, they've not called me, and I ideate if I tried to telephone them, I dream they would answer. I person nary problem pinch having nan aforesaid discussion," she continued.
Caitlin Clark #22 of nan Indiana Fever reacts aft being fouled successful nan 3rd 4th against nan Connecticut Sun astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse connected June 17, 2025, successful Indianapolis, Ind. (Getty Images)
OutKick reached retired to nan NAACP nationalist agency for this communicative connected Thursday to adhd its ain perspective. We person not heard back.
As for Armour, connected Thursday, she released a statement connected her file that was painted by USA Today arsenic immoderate benignant of apology. "In my caller column, I made an inartful comparison pinch nan execution of Emmett Till. I intended to link nan issues nan WNBA is presently facing pinch its All-Star Game being hosted successful Till's hometown of Chicago," Armour wrote. "I evidently did not supply capable discourse for that."
CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM
SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST SPORTS NEWS
Then, successful what shouldn't beryllium a shock, Armour beautiful overmuch doubled down by saying her "point stands."
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP
"There is simply a history successful this state of perceived threats to achromatic women being weaponized against African-Americans, and nan threat that poses to Black players successful nan league," she added.
USA Today's sports department has drawn a statement successful nan sand. The race-baiting, particularly wrong its WNBA coverage, is present to stay.
USA TODAY REPORTER APOLOGIZES FOR INVOKING EMMETT TILL IN COLUMN ABOUT CAITLIN CLARK AFTER UPSETTING THE WOKE
Joe Kinsey is nan Senior Director of Content of OutKick.
