{"id":4895,"date":"2023-04-04T09:29:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T13:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/?p=4895"},"modified":"2023-04-11T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T15:01:04","slug":"angel-reese-lsu-basketball-black-women-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/angel-reese-lsu-basketball-black-women-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"By Being Herself, Angel Reese Slays Anti-Blackness And Misogynoir In Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If there is one thing that sport helps to unmask is the fact that we have so much work to do when it comes to issues of racism, sexism and other discriminatory practices. That was evident after LSU\u2019s victory over Iowa in the NCAA women\u2019s championship game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both teams and star players Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark left it all on the court in the Tigers&#8217; 102-85 victory over the Hawkeyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But after the game, some took to social media and showed their true, and often misguided colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite all of the excitement around the game, no one could stop talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/you-cant-see-me-lsu-angel-reese-iowa-caitlin-clark-racism-hypocrisy-in-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reese\u2019s \u201cYou Can\u2019t See Me,\u201d gesture at Clark<\/a>, a moment that exposed the racism and hypocrisy rife in sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet the situation isn\u2019t as simple as a gesture. Rather, it illustrates just how deeply anti-Black racism and misogynoir are rooted within all social institutions here in the US, including sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We often hear about racism and sexism in sports, particularly within sports media. But we need to be intentional in our use of language and think more deeply about the impact of anti-Black racism specifically, especially in light of all of the vitriol that\u2019s been flung directly at Angel Reese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anti-Blackness functions in two ways. It:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1) Strips Blackness of value (dehumanizes)<\/p><div id=\"first-1365617974\" class=\"first-content first-entity-placement\"><!-- \/22950135888\/FAP_Article_Leaderboard_Instream2 -->\r\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1700413625220-0' style='min-width: 300px; min-height: 90px;'>\r\n  <script>\r\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1700413625220-0'); });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2) Systematically marginalizes Black people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anti-Blackness essentially operates as <a href=\"https:\/\/mrc.ucsf.edu\/racial-equity-anti-black-racism\">an overt form of racism<\/a>. The fact that White women and men are calling Angel Reese classless and disrespectful for using the same gesture that Clark did against Louisville in the Elite Eight is questionable at best and deeply anti-Black and misogynistic at its worst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re wondering where the dehumanization and marginalization are, look no further than the comments calling Reese \u201ca piece of sh*<em>t\u201d or a \u201cf**k<\/em>ing idiot,\u201d across Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are clear indicators of the constant fact that we live in a world where Black girls and women are never given the benefit of the doubt. Where Black girls and women (and Black people broadly) are always suspect and always under suspicion. Our actions, when embodied by non-Black folk are considered normal aspects of living, <a href=\"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/the-bodies-of-black-sportswomen-will-no-longer-remain-quiet-as-its-kept\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">but Black people\u2019s bodies are not respected or regarded as fully human<\/a>. Serena Williams was often called out for throwing \u201ctantrums,\u201d reactions that sports commentators would chalk up to \u201cboys will be boys,\u201d when it came to grown white men.<\/p><div id=\"first-3503869506\" class=\"first-content_2 first-entity-placement\"><!-- \/22950135888\/FAP_Article_Leaderboard_Instream3 -->\r\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1700413989195-0' style='min-width: 300px; min-height: 90px;'>\r\n  <script>\r\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1700413989195-0'); });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>&#8220;This is for the girls that look like me.&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Black girls and women are considered ratchet, or angry, and loud, when in fact they are passionate, and engaging in the usual trash talk that comes with playing sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But who comes to our defense?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who \u201crescues,\u201d or \u201cdefends\u201d Black girls and Black women?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oftentimes, we are the ones who step in and protect us.<\/p><div id=\"first-340261594\" class=\"first-content_3 first-entity-placement\"><!-- \/22950135888\/FAP_Article_Leaderboard_Instream4 -->\r\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1700414036595-0' style='min-width: 300px; min-height: 90px;'>\r\n  <script>\r\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1700414036595-0'); });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Angel Reese has known that from jump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I&#39;m too hood, I&#39;m too ghetto. Y&#39;all told me that all year. But when other people do it, y&#39;all don&#39;t say nothing. So this is for the girls that look like me.&quot;<br><br>Angel Reese is unapologetically her \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reese10Angel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Reese10Angel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9cuCWwayhA\">pic.twitter.com\/9cuCWwayhA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Sporting News (@sportingnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportingnews\/status\/1642671282767507456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;All year, I was critiqued about who I was,&#8221; Reese said. &#8220;The narrative \u2014 I don\u2019t fit the narrative. I don&#8217;t fit into the box that y\u2019all want me to be in. &#8216;I\u2019m too hood. I\u2019m too ghetto.&#8217; Y\u2019all told me that all year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But when other people do it, y\u2019all don\u2019t say nothing. So this is for the girls that look like me, that\u2019s gonna speak on for what they believe in. It\u2019s unapologetically you. And that\u2019s what I did it for tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This was bigger than me tonight. Twitter is gonna go on a rage every time. And I\u2019m happy. I feel like I&#8217;ve helped grow women&#8217;s basketball this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A single game will always be bigger than a single player, especially when that player is Black and a girl\/woman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, Angel Reese is right in that she has helped the game by being unapologetically herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Black women aren&#8217;t allowed to be themselves for when they are, people are uncomfortable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But we&#8217;re not here for other people&#8217;s comfort. That&#8217;s not our job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a Black feminist scholar writing a book on Black feminism and Black girls\/women, I love watching Black girls\/women be their authentic selves, leaning into self-definition and self-valuation. We\u2019ve lived in a world where everyone feels as though <a href=\"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/policing-punishment-of-black-girl-magic-in-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">they have the right to tell us who we are and who we should be. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, we should be loud. We should be colorful, carefree, soft, hard, or whoever and whatever else we want to be without being policed, surveilled, brutalized, traumatized, victimized, silenced, or murdered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Flo-Jo and Sha&#8217;Carri Richardson to Serena Williams and Simone Biles, Black women have been unapologetically themselves and are winning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Others want to enjoy the spoils of Black womanhood, yet they don&#8217;t want to live with the consequences of what we encounter daily. And that&#8217;s the hypocrisy of vilifying Angel while praising Caitlin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Twitter folks that have side-by-side images of Clark and Reese in the same pose calling Clark a \u201cQueen\u201d and Reese a \u201cthug\u201d are much too close to those like Don Imus, who branded the 2007 Rutgers Women\u2019s basketball team \u201cnappy-headed hoes,\u201d and the University of Tennessee team as \u201ccute.\u201d The racial\/gendered dynamics are far too similar as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The truth is that the same white men and women calling Angel Reese classless and disrespectful are likely the same ones in favor of policing and surveilling Black girls in K-12 classrooms, on the sidewalks, in libraries, in grocery stores and on college campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s not lost on me that LSU\u2019s team is predominantly Black and Iowa\u2019s is largely white. Don\u2019t tell me that this isn\u2019t about race. Moreover, don\u2019t tell me this isn\u2019t specifically about anti-Black racism and misogynoir. I\u2019m literally writing the book on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you take issue with a young Black woman being confident in her moment of victory perhaps you should check yourself first rather than trying to check her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Love &amp; Basketball<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, Iowa coach Lisa Bluder said rebounding against South Carolina was akin to being in a \u201cbar fight,\u201d yet she has been able to pass her words off as \u201ctongue in cheek.\u201d Meanwhile, a Black girl\/woman sophomore in college is being lambasted for celebrating her win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s perfectly clear who gets the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s hard to take seriously claims of living in an equitable world when Black girls\/women are continuously disrespected in social spaces. In the classic film, <em>Love &amp; Basketball<\/em>, lead character Monica (Sanaa Lathan) told Quincy (Omar Epps) that she was a \u201cball player,\u201d after she was thrown out of a game for showing too much passion. She was hyper-aware that if she was a man, that would never have happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019m a ballplayer.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YFkyV0no6N\">pic.twitter.com\/YFkyV0no6N<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gina Prince-Bythewood (@GPBmadeit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GPBmadeit\/status\/1642749842056425473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s important to note that it\u2019s never just about race or just about gender. It\u2019s about both and it\u2019s about the intersections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remember, displays of passion come with the territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Black girls\/women should be granted the freedom to display emotions just as much as any other players of the game without being reduced to controlling images and disparaging narratives like the \u201cangry Black woman,\u201d \u201cjezebel,\u201d \u201chood\u201d \u201cghetto,\u201d or other stereotypes that have become part of the media industrial complex over time. Black girls\/women are complex, dynamic, and worthy of living out our days embodying the full spectrum of humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Angel Reese, like Monica, recognizes the hypocritical nature of the venom directed toward her and succeeds despite it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And just like Monica, Angel Reese is a ballplayer, and deserving of the respect of any player in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one thing that sport helps to unmask is the fact that we have so much work to do when it comes to issues of racism, sexism and other discriminatory practices. That was evident after LSU\u2019s victory over Iowa in the NCAA women\u2019s championship game. 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