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Caitlyn Clark Sold Out · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: She's got a question for American mamas. To your mama,
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  Speaker 1: says Kaitlyn Clark sold out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mamas.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now are American Momastery Medville and Kimberly Berlason. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So Kaitlyn Clark was named Athlete of the Year, big
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  Speaker 1: big award for her, and then she kind of came
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  Speaker 1: out and was like, well, this is because of my
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  Speaker 1: white privilege, which made some people upset. Is that selling out?
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  Speaker 1: Is that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, of course it is.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, of course it is.
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  Speaker 4: You don't think it's self preservation because of the environment
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  Speaker 4: that she's in.
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  Speaker 3: That's probably part of it. But when she started apologizing
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  Speaker 3: for her whiteness and giving credit to people who of color, saying,
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  Speaker 3: you know this is on the backs of black women,
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  Speaker 3: my first thought was, oh God, don't do this. Don't
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  Speaker 3: do this. You got this accolade, Just be you know, appreciative.
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  Speaker 3: And then I started thinking of a head. Did Serena
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  Speaker 3: Williams do this when she started becoming the face of
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  Speaker 3: tennis that was usually a white sport. Did she say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: don't give me before you give me this accolade? I
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  Speaker 3: just want to like all the white women before me
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  Speaker 3: that built this you know tennis, you know Pro Tennis
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  Speaker 3: club or you know Tiger Woods and golf. No, they
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  Speaker 3: did not. They we celebrated them for that.
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  Speaker 4: We celebrated them. It's the same with the oscars, like
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  Speaker 4: Halle Berry getting an oscar. We celebrated her being the first.
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  Speaker 4: But you're right, if there is if it's reverse and
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  Speaker 4: there's a celebration for her being the first, it's negative.
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  Speaker 4: It's punched. But what I've noticed is how they have reacted,
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  Speaker 4: not just the girls on the team, but like other
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  Speaker 4: commentators have reacted in such a positive way, saying, hey,
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  Speaker 4: mad respect for her. Now, I feel like she's one
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  Speaker 4: of us, and so I think that's maybe what she
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  Speaker 4: was going for.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let me just tell you this, there's no amount
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  Speaker 3: of groveling, bending to the you know, kissing the ring,
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  Speaker 3: bending the knee, There's no amount that's gonna make those
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  Speaker 3: girls stop scratching her in the face and trying to
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  Speaker 3: hurt her on the court. I saw that, Angel Reese
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  Speaker 3: wrote recently, she tweeted out, it's kind of hard to
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  Speaker 3: see someone you know, to see her get this award
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  Speaker 3: when I know how hard I've worked for it. But hey,
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  Speaker 3: I'll prove it on the court. It is so unbelievably
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  Speaker 3: ridiculous that that's not called out, Like, why aren't people
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  Speaker 3: turn it on that? But I did. I will tell
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  Speaker 3: you this. She has lost so many fans because all
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  Speaker 3: you had to do was either say thank you. This
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  Speaker 3: is quite an honor. I'm so proud to play with
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  Speaker 3: all of these women. We're from different places and it
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  Speaker 3: just is an honor or. If you truly feel like
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  Speaker 3: that you don't deserve this and this is something that
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  Speaker 3: should be celebrated with other women of color or whatever,
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  Speaker 3: then just decline the award, say thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't feel comfortable. That would probably do more
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  Speaker 3: for her than this here. Yes, let me have the award,
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  Speaker 3: let me have the front cover. But yet I'm gonna say, look,
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  Speaker 3: I have white privilege. What are you talking about.
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  Speaker 4: I think she disappointed so many people. I don't even
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  Speaker 4: think that she's gonna have a lot of like lashback,
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  Speaker 4: but I think she disappointed people. And so I do
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  Speaker 4: think the fans, you know, because they were selling out
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  Speaker 4: these arenas, she will have that line. I think that
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  Speaker 4: they will stop.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's what I wanted to get to here. Because
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  Speaker 1: the NBA's attendance. Twenty two point two million fans attend
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  Speaker 1: NBA games in the United States. The WNBA, it's two
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  Speaker 1: point four million. Okay, major League Soccer, which people make
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  Speaker 1: fun of, is oh, nobody watched the Major League soccer.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve million, twelve point one million people going to the games, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: paying ticket prices to go to the games. And it's
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  Speaker 1: only two point four for the WNBA. It's literally one
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  Speaker 1: tenth of the NBA and a large percentage of the
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  Speaker 1: increase because this was a record setting year for the WNBA.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't Angel Reese. It was Caitlyn.
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  Speaker 3: Park And it wasn't even because she was white. It
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  Speaker 3: was because she is the best. She is the best
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  Speaker 3: basketball player and the female realm that we have seen
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  Speaker 3: in decades. I don't know, right, I was gonna say,
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  Speaker 3: they're calling her the Michael Jordan of the women's And
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  Speaker 3: here's another thing. The NBA has funded the w NBA
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  Speaker 3: and they lost money every year. So what I found interesting,
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  Speaker 3: and we were talking to Shane, my niece, there was
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  Speaker 3: somebody high up as a black woman that said, instead
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  Speaker 3: of saying, look, we want to celebrate Caitlin Clark she
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  Speaker 3: brought in so much revenue and so many new fans
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  Speaker 3: to come to our sport. Instead, she says, I think
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  Speaker 3: they should have put all of the women on the
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  Speaker 3: cover the entire WNBA. Why y'all lost money and it was.
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  Speaker 4: Athlete of the Athlete of the year, not Team of
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  Speaker 4: the year.
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  Speaker 3: Would they have asked that if it let's say, let's
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  Speaker 3: go back to tennis and say Serena, it should be
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  Speaker 3: all the women. No, there would be so much backline.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Another I think good example is Tiger Woods, and Tiger
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  Speaker 1: Woods first broke into the golfings exactly, and he's all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden out driving everybody, and he's getting these
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  Speaker 1: guys with beer. But go, you know what, I gotta
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  Speaker 1: go get in the gym. Yes, right, So all these
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  Speaker 1: white golfers, because white golf had been dominated by white
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  Speaker 1: golfers up until Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods starts making all
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  Speaker 1: of them a lot richer because people show up to
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  Speaker 1: watch Tiger Woods at the PGA and they split the revenue.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: It's right. When you find someone special like that that
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  Speaker 3: comes into a sport, you do find that people gravitate
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  Speaker 3: towards that. Yeah, you know, it's like this is because
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  Speaker 3: not it has nothing to do with their race, nothing
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  Speaker 3: to do And here's another thing in sports, It's about numbers, right.
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  Speaker 3: The sport itself doesn't care if you're black or white.
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  Speaker 3: It's how many rebounds, how many free I mean, how
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  Speaker 3: many wins have you had? So when you have that,
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  Speaker 3: you do people are pulled in. And they're pulled in
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  Speaker 3: because this is somebody pretty spectacular.
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  Speaker 1: And instead of people being offended that Tiger Woods was
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  Speaker 1: doing well, they went, I've got to raise my game
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  Speaker 1: to be able to compete with them, and it made
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  Speaker 1: all of golf better. Right, wouldn't that be a better
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  Speaker 1: approach from the WNBA? If you like a scar America
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  Speaker 1: Mollels button. Terry out about Kimberly Brotherston. Thank you so much,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you,