In case you missed it, black women don’t get enough attention.
Of course, it'd be hard to miss it, what with all the protests, the political speeches, the wall-to-wall media coverage, the TV ads, the Hollywood speeches, the movie plot lines, the school curriculums, and the public “awareness” campaigns about how black women never, ever get enough attention.
Propping up that narrative once more is WNBA player Paige Bueckers, formerly a guard for UConn who now plays for the Dallas Wings, who used her moment in a national interview this week to self-flagellate over her own “white privilege” and the unfair treatment of black WNBA players, who she’s previously said never get “the credit they deserve.”
"It’s still an issue, every single day," Bueckers said in a Time magazine interview published Monday. "There’s not ever equal coverage."
"There’s White privilege every single day that I see," she went on. "I feel like I’ve worked extremely hard, blessed by God. But I do think there’s more opportunities for me. I feel like even just marketability, people tend to favor White people, White males, White women. I think it should be equal opportunity. I feel like there is privilege to what I have, and to what all White people have. I recognize that. I want to counteract that with the way I go about my business.”
Bueckers has a history of trying to score points off the court by lamenting how no one cares about black female basketball players.
“The life that I have now, as a white woman who leads a black-led sport and celebrated here, I want to show a light on black women. They don’t get the media coverage they deserve,” she said in a 2021 speech at the ESPY awards, a clip that is now re-circulating on social media in the wake of her Time interview.
WNBA player Paige Bueckers: "As a white, I want to shed light on black players" pic.twitter.com/NDAFZF0AqE
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You may recall, 2021 was definitely not at all the most politically opportune moment for a prominent white athlete to come out in support of black players. Wink wink, nudge nudge.
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Of course, if Bueckers truly believes she’s been given an unfair advantage because of her flaxen locks and notable lack of melanin, she could always donate her salary to the black community, or just quit the team altogether and turn her spot over to a black woman who otherwise wouldn’t have made the roster.
Then again, that would require actually putting her money where her mouth is, rather than just pile on the self-hate for public applause.