DiJonai Carrington bizarrely claims her white privilege post wasnt about Sophie Cunningham foul
The drama inside the WNBA continued on Monday as DiJonai Carrington reacted to criticisms of a post she made on Threads over the weekend. Carrington was ejected after playing just three minutes for the Sky on Saturday against the Fever after being assessed a Flagrant 2 foul after she tried to block a layup by Sophie Cunningham.Moments after she was kicked out of the game, she posted “WHITE PRIVILEGE” and tagged the Fever. It led to a number of reactions, including from former NFL linebacker Emmanuel Acho, who spoke about the foul and Carrington’s use of the term “white privilege” on his latest episode of his “Speakeasy” podcast.
“This was not a race-based decision,” Aho said.“To call that a white privilege-based foul is to completely undermine the term of white privilege and to also completely ignore the rules in basketball.
You hit her in the head.You drew blood.
You didn’t connect with the ball at all whatsoever.“So to me, it was just very ignorant and, to some degree, asinine by D.J.Carrington to suggest that that call was based on white privilege.
Have we seen examples of white players make that same foul and get away with it? Have we seen examples of black players make that same foul and get away with it? Yes.There was no white privilege involved in that specific call.” It let to Carrington responding on social media. “I’ve never once claimed that the assessment of the foul was white privilege (that was your assumption),” she wrote on X, while quote-tweeting a clip of Acho from the show.
“Try exercising your critical thinking skills, I know you studied psych.Furthermore, I’m the LAST thing from ignorant or asinine when it comes to speaking on ‘white privilege’, do ya research on that one.
I actually went to school, one of the top universities might I add, to educate myself on this exact subject.I would never use that term as a rhetorical weapon knowing the historical and social weight it holds without having the...