The WNBA season hasn’t started yet, but Dallas Wings guard Paige Bueckers is already making headlines. The top pick in this year’s draft raised concerns this week about “White privilege” in media coverage.
Bueckers, who is White, has said in the past that she and Caitlin Clark have benefited from being White, with an unfair amount of credit and attention.
“It’s still an issue every single day. There’s not ever equal coverage,” she told Time magazine in an interview published Monday. “There’s White privilege every single day that I see. I feel like I’ve worked extremely hard, blessed by God. But I do think there’s more opportunities for me.”
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“I feel like even just marketability, people tend to favor White people, White males, White women. I think it should be equal opportunity,” she said. “I feel like there is privilege to what I have and to what all White people have. I recognize that; I want to counteract that {snip}”
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