'Together with Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka, and Williams, Reese joins an ever-growing class of Black women athletes who have been punished for being unafraid to speak out, opt out, or express themselves however they please.'
— again, in order to soothe fears of what might happen if and when Black people are publicly acknowledged for, and own, their greatness.
You needn’t have been following Angel Reese’s career for very long to guess how she felt about that. After calling First Lady Biden’s offer a “joke” — preceded by three side-rolling laughing emojis, no less — she elaborated in an“If we were to lose, we would not be getting invited to the White House,” she declared, wondering aloud whether her hand gesture seen round the world made the First Lady feel obliged to intervene in order to promote good sportsmanship.
In the same interview, Reese added that Biden had wanted to visit the Tigers’ locker room to wish the team good luck ahead of the championship game, as she reportedly did with Iowa, but that the team declined. “I think [President] Joe Biden had put somebody else to win the national championship. He didn’t even put us on his bracket to get out of Baton Rouge, so I was like, ‘Bet.’” Indeed, the president hadfor celebrating that the rhetoric appeared to simmer down, a bittersweet pseudo-conclusion that underscores the prioritization of white victimhood — even when it isn’t actually warranted.“You know, Angel is a tremendous, tremendous player. I have nothing but respect for her.
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