DiJonai Carringtons playing victim with Sophie Cunningham white privilege tweet and the medias happy to believe her

Another day, another tiring WNBA spectacle.On Saturday, Chicago Sky’s DiJonai Carrington cleaned Sophie Cunningham’s clock as she went in for a layup on a breakaway.Carrington’s clothesline looked more like a WWE audition or a “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan tribute than a basketball play.The Fever guard hit the floor and bounced up with a bloody lip — a mugging that, rightfully, earned Carrington a flagrant 2 foul and an ejection from the game.Hard fouls happen in the course of play.Especially when Carrington is on the floor.

Her highlight reels are chock-full of unnecessary and insane fouls, complete with hair pulling, eye pokes and near decapitations.It’s kind of her thing.And if you do the crime, then you do the time.Getting tossed should have been the end of this story, but Carrington used her own bad acts to catapult herself into the victim role, cynically injecting race into what was, unequivocally, a dangerous play.She marched into the locker room and pathetically tweeted “white privilege,” tagging the Indiana Fever to suggest that she was ejected because she, a black woman, fouled a white chick.But that kind of racialized trash doesn’t hold up.Last season, Cunningham was on the other side of the equation when she clobbered Jacy Sheldon after the then Connecticut Sun guard took a cheap shot at lightning rod Caitlin Clark.

The 6-foot-1 Cunningham was making a statement: She was Clark’s enforcer now.But Cunningham knew she warranted an ejection.Like a big girl, she took her medicine.Unlike Carrington, who indulged in classic crybully behavior.

The Sky guard started the fight — then whined about the consequences.“This has nothing to do with race … ,” Cunningham told reporters after the game.“Last year, I did the same thing, and I got kicked out.

And I deserved to be kicked out.There’s no reason even to play that card.”Carrington might be running for the cheap-shot queen of the league, but she is no fool.

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