Commentary: Reaction to Angel Reese taunting Caitlin Clark shows the double standard for Black athletes

LSU’s Angel Reese gestures toward Iowa’s Caitlin Clark during the NCAA Championship game. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

In January LSU’s Angel Reese tweeted something that would turn out to be almost prescient, and came into play months later when the Tigers would beat Iowa for the women’s national championship. 

“I’m too hood. I’m too ghetto,” she tweeted. “I don’t fit the narrative and I’m OK with that. I’m from Baltimore where you hoop outside and talk trash. If it was a boy y’all wouldn’t be saying nun at all. Let’s normalize women showing passion for the game instead of it being ‘embarrassing.’”