That darn truth

 I feel for former Fox anchor Megyn Kelly. I really do.

It's gotta be a hard thing to sell your Persecuted White Girl script when your lead actor won't play along. 

It's gotta be a hard thing to hear Caitlyn Clark, the aforementioned lead actor, blow up your phony construct by telling Time magazine how phony it really is. Gotta be, I don't know, galling to hear her say the narrative you're pushing is complete bullstuff.

Which essentially is what Clark did when she pointed out how many black stars have contributed mightily to the WNBA, and that the fact she's getting so much credit is partly a function of white privilege. 

"I want to say I've earned every single thing, but as a white person, there is privilege," she told Time. "A lot of those players in the league that have been really good have been black players. This league has kind of been built on them. The more we can appreciate that, highlight that ... the more we can elevate black women, that's going to be a beautiful thing."

Couple of points about that:

1. Nothing about it is remotely untrue. 

2. Nothing about it is even remotely controversial unless you've got your head screwed on backward or have some bitter agenda to push.

Which brings us back to Megyn Kelly.

Who lashed out, well, bitterly, at Clark on the Magic Twitter Machine, saying she was "on the knee all but apologizing for being white and getting attention", and that her championing of black WNBA players was "Condescending. Fake. Transparent. Sad."

Couple of points about that:

1. In what known universe was Clark "apologizing" by acknowledging the obvious, which is that she's the white face of a largely black league?

2. And why is it condescending, fake, transparent and sad to talk up the WNBA's black players? Why would Megyn Kelly (and those of her ideological bent) find that so objectionable, unless ...

Well. We all know what the "unless" is here, right? Or it least what it sounds like?

It sounds like a time when basketball coaches had self-imposed quotas on players of color, because too many blacks on the roster risked offending their largely white fan bases. It sounds like the 1970s, when people were openly saying the NBA was too black, and that's why drug use was rampant because you know how black people are.

And never mind all the white people in Hollywood and elsewhere who were snorting mountains of nose candy themselves.

Look. I'm not gonna go Full Wackadoodle here and say Megyn Kelly and all the others howling about Caitlyn Clark's alleged betrayal should be fitted for white sheets and hoods. But when Caitlyn Clark promoting the black players in her league gets your back up, you invite some pretty awful analogies. And you've got no one to blame for that but yourself.

Or, you know, Caitlin Clark -- who's no longer your darling because the "Woke Negroes Basketball Association" has "conquered" her. 

Megyn Kelly didn't tweet that, by the way. Some other nutball did. So it goes.