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Privilege and Responsibility: Caitlin Clark, The Olympics & Cop Fired
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Join Bruce Anthony on this episode of "Unsolicited Perspectives" as he delves into the complexities of privilege, gender dynamics in conversations, and the profound impact of societal structures. Bruce explores how privilege often goes unrecognized by those who have it and emphasizes the importance of checking one's privilege through personal anecdotes and an impactful quote from C. Wright Mills. He examines the controversy surrounding Caitlin Clark's exclusion from the U.S. Women's National Basketball Team, discussing meritocracy, the influence of privilege in sports, and dismissing claims of reverse racism. Bruce also touches on the pressures faced by young athletes and critiques society's sense of entitlement. The episode wraps up with a lighter, yet critical, segment about a Nashville police officer's termination following the filming of an OnlyFans video while on duty. With a mix of humor, insightful commentary, and real-life stories, this episode is a compelling exploration of significant societal issues.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:10 Welcome To Unsolicited Perspectives
00:53 Understanding Privilege and Societal Structures
04:17 The Importance of Recognizing Privilege
10:19 Personal Anecdotes on Male Privilege
18:45 Caitlin Clark and the Dynamics of Privilege in Sports
32:00 The Caitlin Clark Debate: WNBA vs. Olympics
33:07 Analyzing Caitlin Clark's Rookie Stats
36:22 Merit vs. Popularity in Sports
42:09 Colin Kaepernick and the NFL Controversy
46:04 A Cop's OnlyFans Scandal
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Transcript
Introduction to Unsolicited Perspectives
00:00:10
Speaker
Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony, here to lead the conversation in important events and topic that is shaped today's society. it's the same Join the conversation and follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch our video podcast. Great review. Like, comment, share.
Exploring Privilege and Social Issues
00:00:30
Speaker
Share with your friends. Share with your family. Hell, you can share with your enemies. On today's episode, I'm gonna be talking about privilege, Caitlin Clark, and a dumbass police officer. But that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.
Personal Stories on Privilege and Silence
00:00:53
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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess. They come to believe themselves naturally elite, and in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as not as natural extensions of their own elite selves. See Wright Mills. What does this mean? This quote emphasizes the idea that those with privilege often fail to recognize it is as such, viewing their advantages as inherent or earned, rather than as a product of societal structures. This can lead to the belief that their voices are more deserving of being heard in every conversation. It's a powerful reminder to check one's privilege and make space for device voices. Now, why do I bring this up?
00:01:44
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well The first two segments, and perhaps maybe even the third segment, the third segment is just an interesting story that I came across this past weekend. I saw something that was an interesting quote, and I'm paraphrasing it, and it said that the privilege, you know that you're privileged because you think that your voice should be involved in every conversation. basically meaning people don't know how to stay in their damn lanes. And I had to learn this, right? Because if you listen to the show, if you watch the show, you know that I'm a very opinionated person. I mean, I couldn't have this show and not have a strong opinion. It's very tough to carry on an hour long show by yourself. If you don't have strong opinions or strong convictions in your opinions,
00:02:33
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and be able to voice them, articulate them the best way that you can. You know, my speech impediment, but that is what it is. Articulate them the best way that you can. But I've learned over the course of my almost 44 years now that there are some times that there are conversations that I should just shut the, shut the hell up. Right? Like I don't need to involve myself in a certain conversation because my voice is out of place in that conversation. Here's a case in point. When me and my sister talk about feminism, I shut the hell up, right? Because this is a woman talking about feminism. Now, if she asks me my opinion about different things, of course, but I don't try to start or lead that conversation thinking that I am somewhat of an expert on that topic. I'm not, right? I don't ever think when talking about women and I'm an expert on anything.
Parental Influence in Education
00:03:31
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Unless it's, you know, picking up women, I'm pretty good at that. And I mean, as far as Dayton is concerned, you know, I give, I give a couple of pointers on that, but I'm talking about the female experience. All right. No, that's a conversation I should shut the hell up in. When Jewish people are talking about what is antisemitic, I shut the hell up and I listen because I'd be damned if anybody that's not black tells me what is racist. right or what I deem to be racist. And I'm really getting tired of this reverse racism. I may or may not get get into that, but that's so that's a huge thing. Some so white people are saying now this is this reverse racism. but
00:04:13
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People need to stay the hell out of certain conversations. And it's a I'll expand upon this more in a second segment when I'm talking about Kaitlyn Clark, but I think it it it goes along with so many different things. People love now, love to talk about politics and don't have an idea most of the time of how the government runs. Like if you ask somebody what are the three branches of government, they they might not be able to. articulate what they are. Remind me of another difference between the executive, the legislators, and the judicial. Judicial maybe, right? Like the courts. That's pretty self-explanatory, but you ask them what the executive, the legislative is? They might not be able to tell you which is which and who is who and what those powers and and responsibilities actually are. But yet they have damn sure an opinion about everything. I'm not a woman. I'm not somebody that can give birth.
00:05:08
Speaker
I will not have an opinion about what somebody should do if they get pregnant. That's whatever I believe should not be right pressed upon other people as if I have any type of influence on their life. And those same people that love to have the type of influence hiding under the guise of protected children when nobody's out here really. right but That's a lie. There are people out here really trying to protect the children, but it's ah it's an easy scapegoat. right like ah is he We want to protect the children. we want to we teachers We want to protect the teachers. Teachers should be paid more, which they should, but you also want to restrict them and their responsibility. at Me, as somebody who went to school to be an educator, I'm really getting salted.
00:05:57
Speaker
When you have these parents and and yes, parents should have a say so and what their children learn and don't learn to a certain extent. Right. When it's talking about the history of this country, yo, know you don't get it right. You don't get a right to restrict your children of the truth. Now you could say maybe at a certain age,
Responsibilities of Privilege
00:06:20
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they'll be better equipped at handling some of these complex themes. But the whole idea that CRT was being taught at school, we had a bunch of people who one couldn't define what CRT was. That's the first thing. And then we have them influencing curriculum when half of them, half of them can't solve simple math equations.
00:06:45
Speaker
Right? Like, can you add and subtract multiply and divide fractions? If you can't do those things, shut the hell up because you're not qualified to teach the children. I went to school for it. It's a it's an entire program before you get to go be a teacher. Right? and it's It's class work. It is learning from teachers. It is following teachers. It is teachers following you. It is being in a classroom for an entire year before you're in a classroom alone. And even then you have guidance. There is so much structure in becoming a teacher. It's not an easy thing. It really isn't. You got 25, 30, 35, sometimes you have a 40 kid, all learned differently, right? Some people are, are
00:07:34
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are audio ah learners. They learn through listening. Some people are visual learners. That's what I am, right? I'm a visual learner. You show me how to do something, I got it immediately. That's the reason why I was so good at math. um Because you could show me an equation and I could figure it out just like that. But, you know, parents aren't equipped to teach a history because half of them don't know the true American history. So how are you going to teach something that you don't understand? How are you going to have a voice in something that you don't understand and it's going to speak on it as if.
00:08:07
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You know what's best, not just for your kid, but for all. And this is the point I'm trying to make. That's the height of privilege, is to think that your voice is so important that it should influence others. Now, I say all this as a man that has a podcast, but what do I always say? You know, I steal it from Dad and Laboratory. I'm not telling you what to think. I'm asking what you like to think. this is unsolicited perspectives most importantly i'm giving you diverse perspectives. It's a window into the soul of america that you might not be privy to just because of your surroundings or who you hang out with or you know where you live you might not have the ability to have.
00:08:55
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diverse interaction with people because you don't live in a diverse area. That's what I tried to present on the show is just ah diverse voices and that hopefully that you can learn something. I know I do, but you got to have an open mind and I don't always believe that I should have a say in every conversation. Now, I will ask questions because I'm curious and I want to learn, which is what I think people should do. But far too often, people are trying to dictate to others who what they feel like their lives should be when they don't want it dictated to them what their life should be. The same people that are saying that they are being canceled all the time and the same people that are trying to cancel.
00:09:46
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The more privilege that you have, the more opportunity you have, the more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have. Listen to that again. The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have, the more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have. Norm Clispe.
Male Privilege and Awareness
00:10:11
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So, as somebody who does have privilege, I have several privileges that I will acknowledge. I'll acknowledge them first here. First thing, first and foremost, I have male privilege. Okay. There are a lot of times and women are far more smarter than me and I've gotten promoted in certain jobs and because I'm a male.
00:10:31
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because they feel like I'm more quit as a male a handling people than that's not necessarily the case. where i know I know for a fact other women have been more qualified for certain positions that that I've gotten. But I got it because I'm a male. And I know the first thing people are going to say, well, it's because you're black. No, everybody was black. but That wasn't what it is. Everybody was on the same racial playing field. I got it because I was a man. Male privilege is also not realizing how dangerous it is an everyday walk of life for women. I told the story. I will repeat it again. I had a very, very very very close friend female friend at college.
00:11:12
Speaker
Went to the University of Maryland. I lived on the south side of campus. She lived on the north side of campus. The University of Maryland is not extremely large, but it's large enough to walk from north side to south side. It's going to take you about a half an hour, 20 minutes, 20 minutes, right? We were supposed to meet at the library, which is in the middle of the campus ah and in relation to the north and south ah campuses for a project that we had to work on. It was nighttime. And I said, Hey, I'll just meet you up at the library. She says, Bruce, I need you to come up here and pick me up. I said, that is ridiculous. Why am I going to walk 10 to 15 minutes past where I'm going to come get you when you can just meet me there? Just meet me here. So Bruce, I'm going to ask you again. Will you come and pick me up? Yes. Okay. yeah You've asked me twice. I'm going to come pick you up. Walk all the way. I pick her up. We're walking back.
00:12:08
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And I'm talking to her and I'm like, I don't understand why, mind you, I'm an 18, 19 year old kid. And I say to her, I don't understand why you need me to walk all this way to come and pick you up. And she says to me, just look around. And I'm like, okay. She's like, it's dark out here. It's like, yeah, so it's nighttime. it's That's how nighttime works. So I could be snatched up and attacked at any moment. I was like, nobody's out here. This is a camp, this is safe. Nobody's out here getting attacked as a snatched. She said, okay. She said, all right. I want you to work, ah because she worked the crisis line for the University of Maryland. And she said, I want you to come and work a couple of nights, come and volunteer a couple of nights working in a crisis line. I said, okay, fine.
00:12:48
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Mind you, I worked for the school newspaper. So anytime there was any type of attack, and and the school newspaper would get a report maybe once or twice a semester of of ah an an attack or or an attempted attack on campus. That's, to my knowledge, that was the amount of attacks that were happening on campus. That's the reason why I said it was relatively safe, aside from traumatic instances, but few in what I thought they were. So I'm working the crisis line and I slowly but surely find out that there are so many women that are being attacked. And and the the the attack levels are very, right? It's a spectrum. But nevertheless, it's situations in which women are extremely uncomfortable to absolutely violate it.
00:13:46
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My heart broke because I have a sister, I have mom, I have aunts that that are like my big sisters, right? I have very, very important women in my family that I genuinely care for. And to hear that this was happening at a rate of which was not being reported because most of the time women didn't report it for various reasons, being ashamed, guilt, fearful, fear of judgment. Like there's a variety of reasons, but you hear the pain in their voice as they're just
00:14:24
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being And I'm trying to just counsel him through it, which is most of the time just listening, right? And I remember my friend, after after the second night, I said, I can't do this anymore. And she said, like I understand this is a very tough job. she She was like, do you understand why I wanted you to pick me up? And I said, yeah, I do understand why. It's not something that I ever thought about. And she was like, it's because you're a man. And I was like, whoa, I guess I never thought about like that. She's like, you will always think and at the very least that you can protect yourself because you just be protecting yourself from another man or men. And you with your bravado think that you could take on the world. So you never feel like you're any real threat unless you're in some real threat. I was like, yeah, and she was like, in your case, because of your
00:15:13
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machismo because I did. I had a lot, a lot of machismo. She was like, the people basically had to pull a gun on you before you actually like her fearful. I was like, yeah, you're right. She's like, I'm fearful. Just go into the dining hall late at night to go get food. So because, you know, in the wintertime, it gets darker quicker. It's like, and that's in a public area. Like it's always fearful. It's fearful turning down a guy for a dance at a party. or drink at a bar. You never know how men are gonna react with rejection or things like that. And I'm like, yeah, I just never thought about that. That's male privilege. So the idea, as I'm getting in, as I will lead into the second segment here, the idea that people don't acknowledge their privilege is not amazing to me. It's understandable. I've talked about it before. People want to,
00:16:06
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say to themselves, I made it here on my own with my own grit and determination. And they don't want to recognize that sometimes systems and structures, societal structures give you a leg up and it could be man, it could be white, it could be Christian, right? These are different privileges that people have specifically in this country that gives them access to certain things that they may overlook. And it's important to recognize the fact that you have these privileges and recognize the fact that just because you have these privileges, that that doesn't mean that you have a right to have a voice every conversation. Those who have privilege to know have the duty to act.
Allyship and Action Against Injustice
00:16:57
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Albert Einstein, what does that mean? When you have privilege,
00:17:02
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And you're seeing somebody that doesn't have privilege and you're seeing an injustice. And once again, you have that privilege. It is your duty. It is your responsibility to act, to help those that don't have the privileges that you have.
00:17:21
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So when my sister brings up feminism, when we talk to people in the LGBTQ plus community, I am not in either one of those communities. Well, I try to be a feminist, but I'm not a woman. Okay. I'm not in the LGBTQ plus community, but I consider myself, or at least I attempt to be an ally. And I have a privilege being a straight male that a lot of people in the LGBTQ plus community do not have. It is incumbent upon me to use my voice to speak up when there is injustices done upon the people that don't have my privilege. And this is coming from a black man. This is coming from a black man that those that don't even have my privilege, it is a duty for me to act and be an ally for them.
00:18:13
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That's the reason why those people will always have, I say those people, those people who don't have the privileges that I have, they don't have the access to things that I have. That's the reason why they will always have a voice in the show. I will always stop and listen because I don't believe that my privilege gives me the right to put my voice in every conversation. Sometimes I just need to shut the hell up.
Caitlin Clark and Olympic Controversy
00:18:37
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And that's going to lead me to my second segment when I talk about Caitlin Clark. There's a lot of people that need to shut the hell up. And I'm going to get into that next.
00:18:54
Speaker
Caitlin Clark, but just saying the name, I'm going to get views and likes and dislikes because her name is an engagement word, right? That's something to drive traffic because she's a hot But an issue and I, I, this is my slang coming out. A job like, meaning like, I kind of, and not kind of, I do. Feel extremely sorry for her. She just wants to play basketball. I'm a fan of Caitlin Clark. I want her to do well. So everything that I'm going to preface this entire segment by saying, I am a fan and I want her to do well.
00:19:35
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also somebody who will be a straight shooter and keep things real. The ghetto made me crazy, but it also made me real. To quote my man, young bleed, but I want her to be successful. And the amount of pressure that she has on her from society, not just to play basketball, to be a figure in everybody's mind our is is it' too much. So from the white community, not every white person, but she's the great white hope. She is a, you know, I've talked about it before. She is a white person that plays an predominantly black sport. And she's she was very, very good. Fantastic.
00:20:25
Speaker
world record setting in college, right? So it's very rare. She's an anomaly and anomalies are attractive to whatever they represent. And she represents somebody white that was dominant on a college level in a black dominated sport. So she's going to gain fans regardless because She's also middle America, right? And and she's not, she's not overworldly, breathtakingly gorgeous. I'm not calling her ugly by any means, but she's not like Cameron Brink, who looks like a Barbie, right? She looks like somebody. she but She looks like an average person, right? She's an average person with exceptional skill.
00:21:16
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And that's charming to a lot of people who can kind of see a little bit of themselves and her. It's very difficult to, even for me as a black man, as a tall and big giant black man, ah as far as, you know, comparing myself to every average day men, it is not easy for me to look at a Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant when they're only a couple inches taller than me and and picture myself being them. Like I can't, they're otherworldly,
00:21:49
Speaker
athletically gifted and I can't see myself in that. A lot of people see themselves in Steph Curry, right? Because he's miniature compared to the basketball court. Steph Curry is actually close to my height, you know, 6'4", I believe. But he, he has a skill that one cannot be mimicked. He's the greatest shooter of all time, but everybody can kind of learn how to be a good shooter. Right. You can't learn how to jump out the gym, like athletically gift people. Like that's very tough to mimic. We don't, we don't look at track stars and say, Oh, we can do that. We marvel at them. We, people look at Caitlin Clark.
00:22:31
Speaker
and they And they say, well well, she didn't look like she's that fast. She doesn't look like she's as athletic. She's not that gorgeous. She looks like an average person. And that's appealing. And this especially helps that she's white. And there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with white people looking to her and being proud. It's the same way black people were looking at Tiger Woods and being proud. Like he was dominating a sport that black people typically hadn't played. And the Williams sisters, is there there's nothing wrong with looking at somebody who looks like you and being proud of him. The problem then becomes,
00:23:12
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when you try to make excuses for why they don't achieve certain things and you try to make it as if it's some reverse racism. And I know what you're thinking, Bruce, where are you leading to with all
Women's National Basketball Team Legacy
00:23:26
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this? Because some people that listen to and watch the show might not be like sports fans. And and we're not going to truly, truly talk about sports. I'm going to tackle it a little bit, but we're going to talk about more of the societal issues because, you know, that's that's what interests me. So the Olympic team, the women's Olympic team was announced last week.
00:23:45
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last weekend, right? And Caitlin Clark's name was not on the 12 players that were selected for the Olympic team. And this sparked all types of controversy, even for some news organizations to say that she was snubbed. as opposed to being not making the team, which is what happened, right? She didn't make the team. She was not, no, this wasn't, it is a selection process, but she wasn't snubbed because she was never going to be a part of the selection process because there are steps that you need to take or be a part of to be a part of the women's national team. And the argument,
00:24:32
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A lot of argument has been, well, she deserved to be on the national team because she's Caitlin Clark.
00:24:44
Speaker
But I want to focus on the history of the national team before I get into what all the fuss was about Caitlin Clark not being on the national team. So this team, the women's Olympic national team, the women's national team, right, has won nine out of 11 Olympic tournaments it has entered. The nine and two in the Olympics. Olympics happen every four years, ladies and gentlemen. 9-2 in the Olympic. They have also won nine of the last 12 World Cups, including the last four and 11 titles overall. The team is currently ranked first in the FIBO World Rankings. That's the international rankings for all the national teams. They're ranked to number one. In 2016, it was named the U.S. Basketball Team of the Year for a record sixth time.
00:25:37
Speaker
The team is one of the most dominant in Olympic sports with a 70 in three record in Olympic play and a record seven consecutive titles. Listen to what I said just now. They've won second consecutive gold medals in the Olympics. The last 28 years, they won gold. It is the most dominant Olympic team the US produces, period.
Merit and Privilege in Sports
00:26:10
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There is no close second. They are the one. When you talk about US Olympic dynasty, they're the one.
00:26:22
Speaker
Okay. There's nothing that comes close. Not the men's basketball, not swimming, not track and field, not gymnastics. There is nothing, nothing that comes close to women's Olympic basketball. They're just straight dominant. Okay. They've had no Olympic losses since 1992. Now I want some of y'all to really, really think about that. Some of y'all are actually listening to this right now and y'all weren't even born.
00:26:56
Speaker
before 1992. You were born after 1992. They've been dominant your entire life because I got some college students that listen to this show. These college students, they listen to the show. Some were born after the 2000s, right? We're talking about a decade, a decade for some of you guys before you were born. That's how dominant this national team has been, okay? In the 2024 Paris Olympics, the team has been is a mix of young players and veterans. Seven of the players that are on a team returned from the 2020 team that won gold in Tokyo. So there's 12 roster spots, and seven of the players that was on that 12-man team in 2020 are coming back to this 2024 team, which means there's only five roster spots available that can be filled, okay? This is just math.
00:27:46
Speaker
Diana Taurasi and age 42 is playing is going to be playing her set six Olympic Games, a feat that has only been accomplished by 211 people in the history of the world. Listen to what I just said, and Diana Taurasi is arguably. This generation's greatest WNBA player like that she's she's in that conversation with.
00:28:11
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Cheryl Swoopes. Cynthia Cooper.
00:28:18
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to make a catchings like there's, there's, there's a, there's a list, but Diana Taurasi is on that list. And I know everybody's going to bring out, ah I know everybody's going to bring out the name that I forgot, but she actually is the best. So we're just going to leave that alone.
00:28:36
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The team also included WNBA stars and gold medalists like Aja Wilson, who is a two-time MVP to WNBA and Brown and Stewart, who was last season's, I believe MVP. So what was all the fuss about? The fuss has been about. Caitlin Clark not being on the team and some of the arguments that have been made for Caitlin Clark not being on the team have been a little idiotic. Okay, because just like in the first segment, just because you have privilege doesn't mean you can talk in every conversation. There's a lot of people that are new to women's basketball. I'm wonderful.
00:29:14
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I'm wonderful. And I know that everybody's like, well, Bruce, you're you're a hypocrite. Aren't you doing the same thing that other people are doing? Yes and no. I've actually done a little bit of research before I started talking and and I've actually been following it and I'm actually a basketball person. I used to coach. Coach high school for for a while and my youth. It's pretty good. I've been coached under by, I've been coached by legendary coaches. I've worked with legendary coaches. I know a little bit about, a little bit about basketball. Okay. So I know a little bit about a little bit. I don't know much about the WNBA. I will be honest.
00:29:46
Speaker
I finally started watching the NBA sparsely over the last couple of years. and And this year, I don't know that there's been an uptick in my viewing, but I would say by and large that goes across the board with me and all sports, just as I've gotten older, I've become less interested with sports and more interested in and other things. So I don't think I've watched one and NBA finals game and there's been four of them. There's one tonight. I might not even watch that one. This might be the game clutch one. So.
00:30:16
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What is all the fuss about with Caitlin Clark? Like a lot of it has to do with race. So like I said, a lot of people are entering this conversation. They don't know what they're talking about. There's a lot of new eyeballs to the WNBA specifically for, because of Caitlin Clark, which is good for the WNBA. If it translates into not just people watching her being her fans, but if her fans spill off and become fans of the WNBA, which. can only happen if she is playing well and talented and because the more she's playing, the more talented, the deeper she's playing in the playoffs and maybe winning in championships, the more visible the entire league will be because there'll be more prime time games because it's Caitlin Clark. So she is definitely bringing eyeballs to the league.
00:31:02
Speaker
And it's, it's, it's some people who were just curious, some people, like I said, because she's white, they they look at her as the great white hope. And, and I don't know if there's necessarily anything wrong with white people looking at her and being amazed at at the anomaly of a white person that. at least dominated college basketball, which is a predominant still predominantly black. Nowhere near as predominantly black as the WNBA. WNBA is black-black. With college basketball, you had I think the University of Iowa, the team she played on, had like two black players. So, you know, there's a little bit more diversity.
00:31:40
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in the college game than there is in the WNBA and WNBA is just, it's pretty much majority, not all, but like 98% or close to it, like black. So for her to come into the league, the way she dominated college basketball, they would think that that trends would translate immediately into the WNBA. That's not Yet, it has not yet.
Debating Reverse Racism in Team Selection
00:32:05
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And it may not, and she may not dominate the WWE like she did Cosme. She may never get to the late like level to that level, but she could be a very, very good player for a long time. The problem is with all these new eyeballs with not just white people, but also men. This is another demographic of people with privilege that are new to the game, but that has such a strong opinion and wanna voice their strong opinion on what's going on now.
00:32:32
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So with all these new eyeballs, everybody's an expert on what the game is when they've never been watching it. And they feel like a she should be on it, on the team, because one, popularity, right? Like, she's going to bring more eyeballs to the to these Olympics if she's on the team. There's only a problem with that is, say that they put her on the team, undeservedly, but because she is so popular, she's not going to play that much. Right? So all her fans are going to do is get agitated that she isn't playing that much unless they just blow out teams all the time and she's going to get garbage time. And her fans still wouldn't be you know happy with that. And oh, by the way, let's point out why.
00:33:12
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She isn't quite good enough to be on this Olympic team. What are her stats this year for a rookie season? She's averaging 16.8 points. that that Right? that's That stat alone, if you're just looking at points, she's averaging almost 17 points a game, and you say, that's pretty doggone good. She's having a good season. And you say, well, she's averaging five rebounds a game. That's a lot. She's doing really well. And she's averaging six assists a game. Hey, once again, you look in at the stats and you say, I don't understand why she isn't on the team, right? These stats are pretty good. They're not top 24, top 30 stats, but they're they're pretty good stats. She's averaging one and a half steals a game.
00:33:51
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Here's where stats can lie to you. Because she's average at 17 points a game, but she's average at 17 points a game on 37% shooting. It's not good. You're not going to shoot most of the time 50% on job shots. But that percentage should be about 8%. 8 points higher. It should be closer to 45, 46% from the field. That's efficient scoring. Right now she is a very efficient scorer. I think that will change as she's been playing more and more games. She's been getting better and better and better.
00:34:23
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But as of right now, she's not very efficient. She's only shooting 33% from the three-point line. Now, your three-point percentage is always going to be lower than your field goal percentage because threes are a further distance than twos, right? But 33%, making one for every three, that's not good. That number should be around 40%. Just saying, at at the high 30s should be the lowest percentage. So once again, she's not very efficient. She's 89% from the free throw line, she's knocking down the free throws, that's good.
00:35:00
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As far as her rankings among the rookies, like she's, they have thesteads the stats, the PRE is the player efficiency rating. She's not very rated very highly among the rookies, among the people that she was drafted with. She's not rated very highly on on these these the stats that measure how effective you are as a player. These stats have been getting better as she's been getting more playing time, but like the quote unquote, Broadcasting rival, Angel Reese is like second among rookies and rebounds, blocks and steals and PPR, player efficiency rating, like she rates higher. So technically, Angel Reese is having a better season than Kaitlyn Clark is right now. And there are going to be some Kaitlyn Clark fans are going to say, no, she's not. What are you talking about? She didn't score a lot of points.
00:35:48
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There is more to basketball. Let me explain this. There is more to basketball than just putting the ball in the basket. You have to be able to defend, rebound, get your teammates involved. That's what an efficient basketball player is. If it was just about scoring, then people like like ah people like Dr. J, who would be rated higher on the list of greatest players than they actually are. It's more than scoring. It's about everything that you're doing. And even in that scoring, not being efficient. Now, I'm not doing this to run her down.
00:36:20
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Once again, I am a fan of Caitlin Clark. I want her to do well. But whatever happened to being on a team based off of merit, right? Because these same people who are talking about she deserves to be on the team because she's popular and she's going to bring more eyeballs to the sport are are the same people that that attack affirmative action. Right. And attack quotas, which quotas was never a thing. Affirmative action is not quotas. Right. But they say that it is saying that and minorities were getting jobs over better qualified white people just because of this rule. And then that that wasn't fair.
00:37:02
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But yet it's fair for Kaitlyn Clark and to be on a team that she's not qualified to be on for several reasons, right? She has not taken part of any of the USA basketball like camps or anything like that. She hasn't been in the system at all. So that's number one, right? ah But even if she had done all of that, just from a statistical standpoint and player rankings, Like she's, she's not good enough to be on the team. And the idea that we would just put her on the team because she's popular and going to bring more eyeballs. And I've seen, I've seen sports talks, sports talk host, men, men.
00:37:50
Speaker
Sports talk hosts never really paid attention to the WNBA until now, right? Saying this, saying this thing, she's going to bring more eyeballs. She's going to bring more eyeballs. And I'm like, yeah, but she's whatever happened to marriage. She doesn't deserve to be on the team. She's not good enough to be on the team. That's the reason why she's not on the team. I thought this was America and that you had to earn what it is that you get. Is that still not a thing anymore? and do we do we Do we just gift stuff away? I know a lot of people, and this is this is a thing that I really feel bad about Caitlyn. I really feel for Caitlyn. There's a certain segment of the population, yeah conservative right-wing people, who are saying that this was reverse racism, that she wasn't on the team because she's white. There are white players that are that are on this team.
00:38:43
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just ah Just to just to point that out, there are more than a few white players that are on this team. And they're actually like all stars and champions and MVPs. And they have the merit to be on team because they're good basketball players. So this idea that she was held off the team because she's white. I get annoyed. I get annoyed ah get into it when a certain segment of the white population in this country talk about how things are being taken away from them. and that they deserve it because things are being taken away and given to other people. But at the same time, when things are based on merit, say, well, what well we didn't get it because of reverse racism. That's what the whole lawsuit to end the affirmative action was. It said it was reverse racism. And they won because the majority of people in this country are still white, still privileged, and they don't think that
00:39:43
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They're privileged. They don't realize it. It is ingrained in their DNA. They're entitled.
Societal Entitlement and Resource Ownership
00:39:51
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You remember this song? This land is your land. This land is my land. You know, I mean, we are taught as Americans from the beginning. This is all ours. But history says history has taught us in this country. It's all white people. And so when white people are taught this and I'm speaking genuinely genuinely ji genuine, I am speaking genuinely, but generally, generally not all white people. I feel like I shouldn't have to keep expressing that, but there are going to be people us that they're going to take offense of that. And those people that take offense after I said, not speaking about all white people, I'm speaking about a certain segment. You're offended. It's directed at you.
00:40:36
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You're telling on yourself, right? The surge segment in the population that this is what they've been told, that this country is theirs and everything is theirs in history and in history books, it's been proven it is theirs. They don't want to share. They think it's theirs. So when it's not given to them, it's reverse racism. And by the way, this is not Caitlin. Caitlin is a saying that. She was, she was like, you know, I didn't expect to be put on the team. It's something to look forward to in the future. And I'm looking forward to that challenge. It is society creating these narratives for this young girl who is just, excuse me, young woman. This young woman who was straight out of college, she just graduated, she's 22 years old.
00:41:22
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I mean, she's a woman, but I can say it because I'm almost 44. She's a kid. She's a kid and she just wants to play basketball. She doesn't want right wing conservatives taking up some cause that isn't real and using her as some type of martyr that they can rally around.
00:41:47
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Sometimes, most of the time, but just need to shut the hell up. You're not supposed to be in every conversation. You should take a step back, look around, say, hey, I don't really know anything about basketball. You didn't become an expert in in the last six, eight weeks. That's not how that works, okay? Shut the hell up. I had a friend, I'm going on this note, I had a friend. When Colin Kaepernick took knee and he was blackballed, I'm gonna explain to you why he was black, or how he was blackballed.
00:42:21
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The person said, well, I'm not watching NFL because he took a knee. He's disrespecting the soldiers. Well, that's not what he did, and okay? Contrary to what a lot of people try to say. Him taking a knee was specifically, he was told, hey, this is a good way to protest without, you know, offending the military. He he talked to somebody that was in the military. He was like, hey, I don't really, I don't really like this protest you're doing, but if you want to make sure that you don't disrespect the military, just take a knee.
00:42:53
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But because people didn't want to hear what he was protesting because they don't want to be confronted by the thing to make them uncomfortable. They made it as well. He's disrespecting the military, which. Black people out here disrespect the military. Police? We'll disrespect the police, not the military. We've been a part of the military. and military We have fought in almost every American war. We have spilled blood and lost lives. I have family members in the military. We're not disrespecting the military. We're disrespecting the country that disrespects us.
00:43:27
Speaker
Right. We're bringing attention to the disrespect that certain institutions of this country have against us. But this person that I know didn't want to hear about it said, I'm not going to watch football. He's disrespecting the military and they should kick him out. Well, when he was blackballed because no other team would pick him up because they didn't want the distraction. Right. This person came back to watching the NFL. I said, oh, you're back to watching NFL. Yeah, I'm back. ah Like you're not offended at the fact that he's been blackballed for his beliefs. Well, he wasn't blackballed. He wasn't that good. That's the reason why he's not in the league. That was another narrative that people that don't understand football at all, all of a sudden became experts said that he wasn't good enough. I said the man that the year before he started kneeling,
00:44:12
Speaker
was in this was a starting quarterback in the Super Bowl and almost won the Super Bowl. And oh, by the way, he wasn't just some quarterback that happened to be in the Super Bowl. He was a pro bowler. that That quarterback all of a sudden didn't good enough anymore, but Brett Favre, the thief who was stealing money from the welfare services in the state of Mississippi to build a volleyball court for the Southern Miss, played multiple seasons after the age of 40, basically on his name. He was good enough to find a job. You're telling me, 64 quarterback jobs, 32 team league,
00:44:52
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first string, second string. Hell, let's even add a third string, right? But let's keep the number simple. 64 spots. You're telling me he's not one of the 64 best quarterbacks in the league? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. He's not that good. I was like, okay, I'm not going to continue on this conversation with you because you're ignorant. You don't know what you're talking about. And instead of just saying you don't like his politics and you're happy that he's not in the league, you're making a falsehood. ah Excuses is the reason why he's not in the league. You're speaking of something that you shouldn't be speaking on. Yes, this was a white woman. Yes, her privilege made her think that she had a right in that conversation. She did not because she didn't know what she was talking about. And this goes back to the original quote. Privilege is something people get, they have, feel like they're entitled to it. It's ingrained in their DNA. But sometimes, most times, people listen to me clearly.
00:45:48
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don't have to have a conference. You don't have to have a voice in every conversation. Sometimes, quite simply, you can shut the hell up.
Controversial Police Officer's OnlyFans Video
00:46:05
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All right, we're going to end the show on something light. I'm tired of lecturing. I know I get on here and I get preachy. I'm trying to get better at that, but some of y'all, act well, more than a few of y'all actually like the fact that I do that. I'm trying to be better with my tone. I will get there. But this last segment is lighter. And I just re came across a story and found it very interesting. The title of this segment is going to be basically a dumbass cop. And I know I did it the the interview last week with Matt Solomon. Solomon.
00:46:39
Speaker
And you should guys should go check out that interview. He talks a lot about policing and some of the strategies that are used in policing that but per perpetuates societal disenfranchise disenfranchisement and injustices. He's he's very well versed. did a documentary or did a film, Reimagining Safety, go check it out. But I know it seems like I've been dumping on cops. My best friend's father's retired cop, I respect the fact that they
00:47:18
Speaker
them that they do a job that's very, very dangerous, right? But sometimes your job isn't dangerous and you just do dumb shit. And this is a prime example of that. Sean Herman, some of y'all may have heard the story. Sean Herman is a former officer now with the Metro Nashville Police Department. department He was involved in a controversy related to an OnlyFans video. What was that OnlyFans video? Well, let's I'll get to that in a minute, but lesss you know he was a ru let's keep on with Sean. Sean was arrested on two counts of felony official misconduct for participating in an OnlyFans skit.
00:47:54
Speaker
The video was filmed while he was on duty and in uniform. An individual he allegedly groped. It wasn't allegedly. I saw the video. He groped. He groped the exposed breast of a female driver during a match a mock traffic stop. The video was filmed on April 26th in a warehouse parking lot in the Madison area while Herman was on duty as a patrol officer. He was fired from Metro Nashville Police Department on May 9th. One day after detectives discovered the video and identified him as the man in it, Herman 33 was employed by the department for three years. He was released from jail after posting the bond. So in the skit.
00:48:36
Speaker
A woman gets, they mock up, pull over, right? Cop gets pulled over. A cop pulls over somebody, it's a woman. And a woman's like, hey, what can I do to get out of this ticket? And he was like, you can't do anything. She pulls down her top. She was like, you can have anything if you just let me out of this. And he grabs her breast. In the shot, you can see his face. You can see the and I and I watch this video completely, completely for resource material. I assure you that it was solely to watch the video and confirm that what I was seeing was what it was and to be able to convey this to you with with the truth because I'm a journalist. You have to do your research. So I did my research and watch the video and in the video you can see his face.
00:49:22
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Clear as day, it's not grainy or anything. He's not blurred out. You can see that he's in uniform. He even pulls up with the cruiser that he's on duty ah driving. This man is on duty. Feminine only fans get. Now, it doesn't get any more graphic than that or, you know, it's not like I paid for the video. I saw the clip of the video. ah So I don't know what goes on after the video, but woman pulls down the top. breast are exposed. He gropes him. All while on duty. And I'm just like, look, I know OnlyFans is lucrative. Hey, you know, I've thought about doing OnlyFans, you know, the foot finder, some, you know, I'm trying to do some things with my life and, you know, look extra cash never hurt nobody. I will never disrespect somebody's kink.
00:50:15
Speaker
And, you know, I'm sexually liberated. me Let's move on from that. i don't so I don't know where that statement is going to take a lot of people's minds, but let's just say, you know, I have no problem talking about sex. You know, sex and sex sex is a natural thing. You know, every species on this planet has some form of sex. So it's an it's a natural thing. But you can't do it my when you're on the job. like What is it that can? And of course, you're going to lose your job. Now, I have a million and one questions. And and some of the questions revolve around. Well, how do you find out? So supposedly, the story was is that the reason why he was discovered is because people called in. People saw the video.
00:51:07
Speaker
You know, I guess, you know, subscribers saw the video and they called in and they said, hey, is this real? Does he really work for you guys? Cause he was out here groping on women. So somebody knocked on him, somebody snitched on him. And he probably got a nice little payday, but it wasn't worth losing his job over. But maybe it is. Maybe he's going to become an OnlyFans star. He was a fairly good looking man. You know, I mean, he wasn't ugly. Maybe, you know, he wouldn't turn that into something. He's still fairly young. He's only 33 years old. You know, maybe being a cop, maybe being police wasn't in his future. Maybe, you know, being a sexy, sexy demon was in his future. I say sexy demon. Look, that's not, those are just words that just came to my head just now.
00:51:49
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Ain't nothing wrong with what he did from the standpoint of doing it in general,
Officer Misconduct and Police Implications
00:51:54
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but doing it while on duty and you get caught and you can't deny it. Like, I don't even know what excuse and you know, cops to get fired from your job, you got to do something egregious. Even his lawyers, people that represent cops, it's kind of like, man, I don't really know what to tell you, man. He was on duty in uniform, in your official uniform, Using your police crews are groping on women. That just gives a bad look to the whole police department. We gotta let you go, man. You got to go. Look, you got to go. I don't know what you was thinking. This is like in the scene from Goodfellas, when he's like, you gotta go home. Then he's like, you gotta go home. You gotta go, because you can't stay here. Because you're stupid. He's under investigation too. So this would be like his actions. Any time a police officer has misconduct,
00:52:44
Speaker
It could be criminal or civil. We don't know what the end result or is is going to be. There's a bunch of different things. There's federal laws, there's criminal laws and civil cases. There's a police misconduct provision. That's the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. It includes a police misconduct provision. The PMP. The PMP, the PMP allows the DOJ to sue law enforcement agencies that display a pattern or practice of unlawful behavior. I mean, that opens the door for this, the police department to be sued by the DOJ because they're like, look, we've got police officers out there in uniform groping on women. Like, was this real? Wasn't a mock?
00:53:31
Speaker
Was it something that they said, was it something that was real that they turned it into a mock to recover his own cell? You know, I mean, this is something that opens up your department for a lot of, a lot of stuff. And if they start to dig deep and they find misconduct with one person and the DOJ that does an investigation, your police department, and maybe some of your detectives has been playing evidence, you know, it can open you up. I'm not saying that's the case. I'm saying when you open your police department up to investigation, They might be looking for one thing and find some other stuff. That's how investigations go, right? Looking for one thing, like, Oh, hold on, man. I was looking for you for selling crack cocaine. I didn't know you was pimping hoes as well. Like that's, that's how they get you. That's how investigations get you.
00:54:18
Speaker
You think you're just being and investigated because you sell drugs to the community and they find out you're selling women to the community as well. That's that's how investigations go. So the police department is like, nah, man, you got to go. And I can understand this. It's a really bad look. Police officers are supposed to be above reproach. That's the propaganda that Matthew Solomon was talking about. They're supposed to be above approach, report but they're human beings. And they make mistakes. And Shai Hermon made a mistake. I don't know him from from Sam, right? Random person, like I don't know him. I don't know what he has in his heart. I don't know if he's good or bad. I don't really even care. This is all I'll say.
00:55:06
Speaker
Rarely do I defend the police. He should have been fired. But I'm not going to condemn this man for this ignorant act. You know, he's a, I guess he's a millennial, barely. No, he's a millennial. He's a millennial. So he should have known a little bit better. But this, the fame and the the doing the attraction to it will cause you to do things that are out of your character and cause people to make mistakes like Sean did. He lost his job. But like I said, maybe he's got a career in home fans. I don't know. Who knows?
Farewell and Hiatus Announcement
00:55:42
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00:55:57
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