In what would have been a perfect opportunity to denounce the racism that some WNBA players have experienced this season, the league’s commissioner Cathy Engelbert completely missed the mark.
Engelbert was asked how the league can get ahead of some of the online hate players have been subjected to in an interview during a segment on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” television show, but ducked the actual prompt, which referenced race and sexuality.
First, here’s the full question that was asked of Engelbert by anchor Tyler Mathisen:
“It seems, on some social media channels, to have taken a darker turn, a more menacing turn, where race has been introduced
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