LSU forward Angel Reese possesses all the qualities one could dream of in a baller. She’s highly skilled, competitive, passionate and exuberant. She was a major catalyst behind LSU winning its first NCAA championship, defeating Iowa on April 2. For these reasons, she should be honored, but a loud few on social media decided to unleash their racism and sexism in an attempt to diminish a proud young Black woman.
By and large, championship game day was a memorable day for women’s basketball and women’s sports in general. Nearly 10 million people tuned in to ABC to watch the game. The moment that got everybody talking came in the final seconds of the game when Reese engaged in the “You Can’t See Me” gesture popularized by pro wrestler John Cena towards Iowa’s star player Caitlin Clark. It’s a gesture that Clark, who is white, herself used toward a Louisville player during the Elite Eight without any backlash.
Anyone who knows anything about sports knows that it is pure competitive fire behind certain gestures and nothing more.
But to Dave Portnoy at Barstool Sports, former ESPN anchor Keith Olberman and even First Lady Dr. Jill Biden it was a moment that they had an issue with. Either with something subtle, as was the case with Dr. Biden, who thought it was…
