‘How is Supporting Caitlin Clark Racist?’ GOP Activist Slams ‘Insane’ USA Today Column Suggesting Fans of WNBA Star are White Nationalists

Conservative activist CJ Pearson suggested USA Today columnist Nancy Armour’s column bizarrely linking WNBA star Caitlin Clark to a racist 1955 murder and claiming a large chunk of her fans are white nationalists was so atrocious she must have been drunk when she wrote it.

Pearson slammed Armour’s much-maligned article during a Friday interview on The Faulkner Focus.

“It’s absolutely insane,” he said when asked for his reaction. “And I know it’s National Tequila Day, but it seems she got a head start in celebrating while writing this piece.”

He referred to a few sections which went extra-viral from the Wednesday piece.

Armour wrote Clark’s “flopping” was a big problem because it was putting other players in “danger.”

“It shouldn’t need reminding this country has an awful history of Black people being harmed, even killed, in the name of ‘defending’ white women,” Armour wrote. “The irony of the WNBA’s All-Star Game is that it’s happening this weekend in Chicago, the hometown of Emmett Till, who became an icon of the civil rights movement after his tragic murder.”

She added, “It seems there is a white nationalist faction to Clark’s fandom that is deeply, deeply problematic, made even more so because the WNBA is made up predominantly of Black women, many of them queer. When Clark claims fouls that don’t exist, when she goes on profanity-laced tirades at referees, those racists see her as a white woman in need of saving and take matters into their own hands.”

Pearson told Harris Faulkner the article didn’t make a lick of sense.

“How is supporting Caitlin Clark racist? How is in any way the treatment that she suffered at all in the neighborhood of comparison to the tragedy that happened to Emmett Till?” he asked. “These people are grasping for straws and absolutely, coming up short every single time.”

Armour admitted on Thursday she made an “inartful comparison” by bringing up Till, but doubled down on the overall slant of her story.

Pearson — who has been the co-chair of the Republican National Committee’s Youth Advisory Council since 2022 — added the coverage of Clark has been “a shame,” considering how great she has been for the WNBA.

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