Megyn Kelly Goes Off on Caitlin Clark for Her 'Sad' 'White Privilege' Pandering

We've witnessed it repeatedly: the unthinking, automatic recitation of a "woke catechism" that bears no connection to reality.

However, this time, it feels different. The display almost seems as though the oblivious participant has traveled from the recent past to our present.

On Tuesday, conservative commentator Megyn Kelly took to the social media platform X to criticize Caitlin Clark of the WNBA’s Indiana Fever for what she deemed a "sad" choice to acknowledge her so-called “white privilege” as the league's most prominent star, despite its predominance of black players.

“Look at this. She’s on the knee all but apologizing for being white and getting attention. The self-flagellation. The ‘oh pls pay attention to the black players who are REALY the ones you want to celebrate,’” Kelly wrote.

“Condescending. Fake. Transparent. Sad,” she concluded, offering a sharp critique of Clark's remarks.

Clark’s comments, featured Tuesday in Time Magazine, came as the publication named her Athlete of the Year.

“I want to say I’ve earned every single thing, but as a white person, there is privilege,” she stated.

The WNBA’s 2024 Rookie of the Year further expanded on the divisive concept rooted in critical race theory.

“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, talk about that, and then continue to have brands and companies invest in those players that have made this league incredible, I think it’s very important. I have to continue to try to change that,” she said.

Time’s coverage also included input from two of Clark’s peers, both black.

Temi Fagbenle, Clark’s former Fever teammate and current member of the expansion Golden State Valkyries, asserted that America remains fundamentally unchanged since its founding.

“America was founded on segregation, and to this day is very much about black and white,” Fagbenle stated.

Similarly, three-time WNBA MVP A’Ja Wilson attributed Clark’s prominence to her race.

“It doesn’t matter what we all do as black women, we’re still going to be swept underneath the rug,” Wilson lamented. “That’s why it boils my blood when people say it’s not about race, because it is.”

These statements reflect how racial propaganda has deeply influenced many, to the point where they repeat such claims without question.

Does Fagbenle genuinely believe that America remains unchanged since 1960, let alone its founding?

And does Wilson honestly think she can discern others’ inner motives so precisely that any denial of race-based intent causes her blood to boil?

Historically, some white men occupied positions of power they neither earned nor deserved, solely due to their sex and skin color. Over time, Americans recognized the injustice of this.

Yet it was equally unjust when Vice President Kamala Harris, despite her evident shortcomings as a thinker and speaker, was chosen as Joe Biden’s running mate due to her identity as a black woman. The same applies to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s appointment to the Supreme Court, despite her questionable constitutional understanding and authoritarian leanings, solely because of her race and gender.

Such actions highlight the opposite of Wilson's claim that black women are being “swept underneath the rug.” On the contrary, some individuals have been elevated for reasons similar to those once used to advantage unqualified white men.

Wilson’s “swept underneath the rug” remark, therefore, is not only untrue but a stark inversion of reality.

By uncritically supporting that narrative, Clark reinforces a falsehood—mechanically, as though programmed to do so.

Megyn Kelly, unsurprisingly, called this out with sharp clarity.

Yet even Kelly’s critique did not capture the broader context.

President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 victory marked a turning point, signaling that a majority of Americans have grown weary of playing into the divisive rhetoric of "woke racism."

In this light, Clark’s display of “self-flagellation” feels like a relic of 2020, as if she either time-traveled from that fraught era or failed to grasp that such behaviors are no longer the norm.

And that, at least, is reason for hope.