Privilege and Responsibility: Caitlin Clark, The Olympics & Cop Fired

Privilege and Responsibility: Caitlin Clark, The Olympics & Cop Fired
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Welcome To Unsolicited Perspectives 
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Bruce Anthony: Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unflicked Perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony, here to lead the conversation in important events and topic that is shaping today's society. Join the conversation and follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch our video podcasts.

Bruce Anthony: Rate, review, like, comment, share. Share with your friends. Share with your family, hell, even share with your enemies. On today's episode, I'm going to be talking about privilege, Kaitlyn Clark and a dumb ass police officer, but that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.

Understanding Privilege and Societal Structures
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Bruce Anthony: People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come [00:01:00] readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess. They come to believe themselves naturally elite and in fact to imagine their possessions and their privileges as not as natural extensions of their own elite selves.

Bruce Anthony: See right mills. What does this mean? This quote emphasizes the idea that those with privilege often fail to recognize it is as such viewing their advantages as inherently inherent or earned rather than as a product of societal structures. This can lead to the belief that their voices are more deserving of being heard in every conversation.

Bruce Anthony: It's a powerful reminder to check one's privilege and make space for device voices. Now, why do I bring this up? Well, the first two segments and perhaps maybe even the third segment, the third segment is just a interested story that I, that I came across, uh, this past weekend. I saw something that was an interesting [00:02:00] quote, and I'm paraphrasing it, and it said that the privilege, you know that you're privileged because you think that your voice should be involved in every conversation.

Bruce Anthony: Basically meaning people don't know how to stay in their damn lanes. And that's it. I had to learn this, right? Cause if you listen to the show, if you watch the show, you know, that I'm a very opinionated person. I mean, I couldn't have this show and not have a strong opinion. It's very tough to carry on an hour long show by yourself.

Bruce Anthony: If you don't have strong opinions and strong convictions in your opinions and be able to voice them, articulate them the best way that you can, you know, I'm a speech impediment, but that is what it is, articulate them the best way that you can. But I've learned over the course of my almost 44 years now, that there are sometimes that there are conversations that actually just shut the, shut the hell up, right?

Bruce Anthony: Like I don't need to involve myself. In a certain conversations, because my voice is out of place in [00:03:00] that conversation. Here's a case in point when me and my sister talk about feminism, I shut the hell up because this is a woman talking about feminism. Now, she asked me my opinion about different things, of course, but I don't try to start or lead that conversation thinking that I am somewhat of an expert on that topic.

Bruce Anthony: I'm not right. I don't ever think when talking about women and I'm an expert on anything. Unless it's, you know, picking up women, I'm pretty good at that. And I mean, as far as dating is concerned, you know, I can give, I give a couple of pointers on that, but I'm talking about the female experience. No, that's a conversation I should shut the hell up in.

Bruce Anthony: When Jewish people are talking about what is anti Semitic, I shut the hell up and I listen, because I'd be damned if anybody that's not black tells me what is racist. Right. Or what I [00:04:00] deem to be racist. And I'm really getting tired of this reverse racism. I may or may not get, get into that, but that's a, that's a huge thing.

Bruce Anthony: Some, some white people are saying, oh, is this reverse racism, but people need to stay the hell out of certain conversations. 

The Importance of Recognizing Privilege
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Bruce Anthony: And so I'll expand upon this more in the second segment when I'm talking about Kaylin Clark. But I think it, it goes along with so many different things. People love now love to talk about politics.

Bruce Anthony: I don't have an idea most of the time of how the government runs. Like if you ask somebody, what are the three branches of government? They might not be able to. Articulate what they are. Remind, I know the difference between the executive, the legislators and the judicial judicial, maybe, right? Like the courts, that's pretty self explanatory, but you're asking them what the executive, the legislative is, they might not be able to tell you which is which and who is who and what those powers and, and responsibilities actually are, but [00:05:00] yet they have damn sure an opinion about everything.

Bruce Anthony: I'm not a woman. I'm not somebody that can give birth. I will not have an opinion about what somebody should do if they get pregnant. That's whatever I believe should not be pressed upon other people as if I have any type of influence on their life. And those same people that love to have a type of influence hide it under the guise of protected children.

Bruce Anthony: When nobody's out here, really, that's a lot. There are people out here really trying to protect the children, but it's a, it's an easy scapegoat, right? Like it's a, we want to protect the children. We want to, we, the teachers, we want to protect the teachers. The teachers should be paid more, which they should, but you also want to restrict them and their responsibility at me as somebody who went to school to be an educator, I really getting salted when you have these parents.

Bruce Anthony: And yes, [00:06:00] parents should have a say so and what their children learn and don't learn to a certain extent. Right? When it's talking about the history of this country, you know, you don't get a right, you don't get a right to restrict your children of the truth. Now, you could say maybe at a certain age, they'll be better equipped at handling some of these complex themes.

Bruce Anthony: But the whole idea that CRT was being taught at school, we had a bunch of people who, one, couldn't define what CRT was. That's the first thing. And then we have them influencing curriculum when half of them, half of them can't solve simple math equations, right? Like, can you add and subtract, multiply and divide fractions?

Bruce Anthony: If you can't do those things, shut the hell up because you're not qualified to teach the children. I went to school for it. It's a, it's an entire program [00:07:00] before you get to go be a teacher, right? It's, it's classwork. It is. Learning from teachers. It is following teachers. It is teachers following you. It is being in a classroom for an entire year before you're in a classroom alone.

Bruce Anthony: And even then you have guidance. There is so much structure in becoming a teacher. It's not an easy thing. It really isn't. And you guys, 25, 30, 35, sometimes even 40 kid all learn differently. Some people are, are, are audio, uh, learners. They learn through listening. Some people are visual learners. That's what I am, right?

Bruce Anthony: I'm a visual learner. You show me how to do something. I got it immediately. That's the reason why I was so good in math, um, because you could show me an equation and I could figure it out just like that. But. You know, parents aren't equipped to teach a history because half of them don't know the true American history.

Bruce Anthony: So how are you going to teach something that [00:08:00] you don't understand? How are you going to have a voice in something that you don't understand and it's going to speak on it as if you know what's best not just for your kid, but for all. And this is the point I'm trying to make. That's the height of privilege, is to think.

Bruce Anthony: That your voice is so important that it should influence others. Now, I say all this as a man that has a podcast, but what do I always say? You know, I steal it from Dan Labatard. I'm not telling you what to think. I'm asking what you like to think. This is unsolicited perspectives. Most importantly, I'm giving you diverse perspectives.

Bruce Anthony: It's a window into the soul of America that you might not be privy to just because of your surroundings or. Who you hang out with, or, you know, where you live, you might not have the ability to have diverse interaction with people because you don't live in a [00:09:00] diverse area. That's what I tried to present on the show is just dive diverse voices and that hopefully that you can learn something.

Bruce Anthony: I know I do, but you gotta have an open mind and I don't always believe that I should have a say. In every conversation now, I will ask questions because I'm curious and I want to learn, which is what I think people should do far too often. People were trying to dictate others who wet. They feel like their lives should be when they don't want it dictated to them what their life should be.

Bruce Anthony: The same people that are saying that they are being canceled all the time and the same people that are trying to cancel. The more privilege that you have, the more opportunity you have, the more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have. Listen to that again. The more privilege you have, [00:10:00] the more opportunity you have, the more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.

Bruce Anthony: Norm Clisby. So as somebody who does have privilege, I have several privileges that I will acknowledge. And I'll acknowledge them first. 

Personal Anecdotes on Male Privilege
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Bruce Anthony: First thing, first and foremost, I have male privilege. Okay. There are a lot of times that women are far more smarter than me and I've gotten promoted in certain jobs and because I'm a male, because they feel like I'm more equipped as a male, a handling.

Bruce Anthony: And that's not necessarily the case when I know, I know for a fact, other women have been more qualified for certain positions that I've gotten. But I got it because I'm a male. And I know the first thing that people are going to say, well, it's cause you're black. No, everybody was black. It's black. Wasn't what it is.

Bruce Anthony: Everybody was on the same racial playing field. I got it because I was a man. Male privilege is also not [00:11:00] realizing how dangerous it is an everyday walk of life for women. I told the story, I will repeat it again. I had a very, very, very, very close friend, a female friend at college. I went to the university of Maryland.

Bruce Anthony: I lived on the South side of campus. She lived in the North side of campus. The university of Maryland is not extremely large. It's large enough to walk from North side to South side is going to take you about a half an hour, 20 minutes, 20 minutes, right? We were supposed to meet at the library, which is in the middle of the campus.

Bruce Anthony: And in relation to the North and South, uh, campuses. For a project that we had to work on it was nighttime and I said, Hey, I'll just meet you up at the library. She says, Bruce, I need you to come up here and pick me up. I said, that is ridiculous. Why am I going to walk 10 to 15 minutes past where I'm going to come get you when you can just meet me there?

Bruce Anthony: Just meet me here. So Bruce, I'm going to ask you again. Will you come and pick me up? [00:12:00] Yes. Okay. You've asked me twice. I'm going to come pick you up, walk all the way. I pick her up. We're walking back and I'm talking to her and I'm like, I don't understand why. Mind you, I'm an 18, 19 year old kid. And I say to her, I don't understand why you needed me to walk all this way to come and pick you up.

Bruce Anthony: And she says to me, just look around. And I'm like, okay. She's like, it's dark out here. It's like, yeah. So it's nighttime. It's that's how nighttime works. So I could be snatched up and attacked at any moment. I was like, nobody's out here, this is a campus, it's safe. Nobody's out here getting attacked and snatched.

Bruce Anthony: She said, okay. She said, all right. I want you to work. She worked the crisis line for the University of Maryland. And she said, I want you to come and work a couple of nights. Come and volunteer a couple of nights working the crisis line. I said, okay, fine. Mind you, I worked for the school newspaper. So anytime there was any type of attack and, and the school newspaper would get a report maybe once or twice a semester [00:13:00] of, of an attack or an attempt attack on campus.

Bruce Anthony: Um, that's to my knowledge, that was the amount of attacks that were happening on campus. That's the reason why I said it was relatively safe aside from traumatic instances. Few in what I thought they were. So when working a crisis line and I slowly, but surely find out that there are so many women that are being attacked and the, the, the attack levels are very right, it's a spectrum, but nevertheless, It's situations in which women are extremely uncomfortable to absolutely violate it.

Bruce Anthony: My heart broke because I have a sister, I have mom, I have aunts that, that are like my big sisters, right? I have very, very important women in my family that I [00:14:00] genuinely care for. And to hear that this was happening at a rate of which was not being reported, because most of the time women didn't report it for various reasons.

Bruce Anthony: Being ashamed, guilt, fearful, fear of judgment. Like there's a variety of reasons, but you hear the pain in their voice as they're just being, I, and I'm trying to just counsel them through it, which is most of the time, just listening, right? And I remember my friend after, after the second night, I said, I can't do this anymore.

Bruce Anthony: And she's like, I understand this is a very tough job. She, she was like, do you understand why I wanted you to pick me up? And I said, yeah, I do understand why it's not something that I ever thought about. And she was like, it's because you're a man. And I was like, well, I guess I never thought about like that.

Bruce Anthony: She's like, you will always think at the very least that you can protect yourself. Because [00:15:00] you just be protecting yourself from another man or men. And you, what's your bravado thing that you can take on the world. So you never feel like you're any real threat unless you're in some real threat. I was like, yeah.

Bruce Anthony: And she was like, in your case, because of your machismo, cause I did, I had a lot, a lot of machismo, she was like, people basically had to pull a gun on you before you actually like, are fearful. I was like, yeah, you're right. She's like, I'm fearful, just go into the dining hall late at night to go get food.

Bruce Anthony: So, cause you know, in the winter time it gets darker quicker. It's like, and that's in a public area. Like it's always fearful. It's fearful turning down a guy for a dance at a party or drink at a bar. You never know how men are going to react with rejection or things like that. And I'm like, yeah, I just never thought about that.

Bruce Anthony: That's male privilege. So the idea as I'm getting in, as I will lead into the second segment here, the idea that people don't acknowledge their privilege is [00:16:00] not amazing to me. It's understandable. I've talked about it before. People want to say to themselves, I made it here on my own with my own grit and determination, and they don't want to recognize.

Bruce Anthony: That sometimes systems and structures, societal structures, give you a leg up and it could be man, and it could be white, it could be Christian, right? These are different privileges that people have specifically in this country that gives them access to certain things that they may overlook. And it's important to recognize the fact that you have these privileges and recognize the fact that just because you have these privileges, that that doesn't mean That you have a right to have a voice, every conversation, those who have privilege to know, have the duty to act Albert Einstein, what does that mean?

Bruce Anthony: When [00:17:00] you have privilege and you're seeing somebody that. Doesn't have privilege and you're seeing an injustice. And once again, you have that privilege. It is your duty. It is your responsibility to act, to help those that don't have the privileges that you have. So when my sister brings up feminism, when we talk to people in the LGBTQ plus community, I am not in either one of those communities.

Bruce Anthony: Well, I, I try to be a feminist, but I'm not a woman. Okay. I'm not in the LGBTQ plus community, but I consider myself, or at least I attempt to be an ally. And I have a privilege being a straight male that a lot of people in the LGBTQ plus community do not have. It is incumbent upon me to use my voice, to speak up when there is injustices done upon the people that don't have my [00:18:00] privilege.

Bruce Anthony: And this is coming from a black man. This is coming from a black man that those that don't even have my privilege. It is a duty for me to act and be an ally for them. That's the reason why those people will always have a, I say those people, those people who don't have the privileges that I have that don't have the access to things that I have.

Bruce Anthony: That's the reason why they will always have a voice in the show. I will always stop and listen because I don't believe that my privilege gives me the right. To put my voice in every conversation. Sometimes I just need to shut the hell up. And that's going to lead me to my second segment. When I talk about Caitlin Clark, there's a lot of people that need to shut the hell up.

Bruce Anthony: And I'm going to get into that next. 

Caitlin Clark and the Dynamics of Privilege in Sports
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Bruce Anthony: Caitlin Clark, just saying the name, I'm going to get views and [00:19:00] likes and dislikes because her name is an engagement word, right? That's something to drive traffic. Because she's a hot button issue. And I, this is my slang coming out a job. Like meaning like I kind of, and not kind of, I do feel extremely sorry for her.

Bruce Anthony: She just wants to play basketball. I'm a fan of Caitlin Clarke. I want her to do well. So everything that I'm going to preface this entire segment by saying, I am a fan and I want her to do also somebody who will be a straight shooter and keep things real. The ghetto made me crazy, but it also made me real to quote my man, young bleed, but I want her to be successful and the amount of pressure that she has on her from society, not just to play basketball, to be a figure in [00:20:00] everybody's mind are, is, is, is too much.

Bruce Anthony: So from the white community. Not every white person, but she's the great white ho. She is a, you know, I've talked about it before. She is a white person that plays in a predominantly black sport. And she's, she was very, very good. Fantastic world record setting in college. Right? So it was very rare. She's an anomaly and anomalies are attractive to whatever they represent.

Bruce Anthony: And she represents somebody white that, that was dominant on the college level in a black dominated sport. So she's going to gain fans regardless because she's also middle America. Right. And, and she's not, she's not overworldly breathtakingly gorgeous. I'm not calling her ugly by any means, but she's not [00:21:00] like Cameron Brink who looks like a Barbie.

Bruce Anthony: Right. She looks like somebody. She, she looks like. An average person, right? She's an average person with exceptional skill. And that's charming to a lot of people who can kind of see a little bit of themselves in her. It's very difficult to, even for me as a black man, as a tall and big giant black man, as far as, you know, comparing myself to every average day men, It is not easy for me to look at a Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant when they're only a couple inches taller than me and, and picture myself being them.

Bruce Anthony: Like I can't, they're, they're otherworldly, athletically gifted and I can't see myself in that. A lot of people see themselves in Steph Curry. Right. Because he's miniature compared to the basketball court. [00:22:00] Steph Curry is actually close to my height, you know, six, four, I believe, but he, he has a skill that one cannot be mimicked.

Bruce Anthony: He's the greatest shooter of all time, but everybody can kind of learn how to be a good shooter. Right. You can't learn how to jump out the gym, like athletically gifted. People like that's very tough to mimic. We don't, we don't look at track stars and say, Oh, we can do that. We marvel at them. People look at Caitlin Clarke and they, and they say, well, she didn't look like she's that fast.

Bruce Anthony: She didn't look like she's athletic. She's not that gorgeous. She looks like an every person and that's appealing. And this basically helps that she's white. And there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with white people looking to her for help. And being proud, it's the same way black people were looking at Tiger Woods and being proud, like he was dominating a sport that black people typically hadn't [00:23:00] played.

Bruce Anthony: And, and, and the, the Williams sisters, there's nothing wrong with looking at somebody who looks like you and being proud of them. The problem then becomes. When you try to make excuses for why they don't achieve certain things and you try to make it as if it's some reverse racism. And I know what you're thinking, Bruce, where are you leading to with all this?

Bruce Anthony: Because some people that listen to and watch the show might not be like sports fans. And, and we're not going to truly, truly talk about sports. I'm going to tackle it a little bit, but we're going to talk about more of the societal issues. Cause you know, that's, that's what interests me. So the Olympic team, the women's Olympic team was announced last week, last weekend.

Bruce Anthony: Right. And, uh, Caitlin Clark's name was not on the 12 players that was selected for the Olympic team. And this sparked all types of controversy. Even for some news organizations to say that she [00:24:00] was snubbed as opposed to being not making the team, which is what happened, right? She didn't make the team. She was not, no, this wasn't, it is a selection process, but she wasn't snubbed because she was never going to be a part of the selection process, because there are steps that you need to take or be a part of to be a part of the women's team.

Bruce Anthony: National team and the argument, a lot of argument has been, well, she deserved to be on the national team because she's Kaitlyn Clark, but I want to focus on the history of the national team before I get into what all the fuss was about Kaitlyn Clark, not being on the national team. So this team, the women's.

Bruce Anthony: Olympic national team, the women's national team, right? Has won [00:25:00] nine out of 11 Olympic tournaments. It has entered the nine and two in the Olympics Olympics happen every four years, ladies and gentlemen, nine and two in an Olympic. They have also won nine of the last 12 world cups, including the last four.

Bruce Anthony: And 11 titles overall. The team is currently ranked first in the FIBA world rankings. That's the international rankings for all the national teams. They ranked number one and 2016. It was named the U S basketball team of the year for record six time. The team was one of the most dominant in Olympic sports with a 70 in three record and Olympic play and a record seven.

Bruce Anthony: Consecutive titles. Listen to what I said just now. They've won second consecutive gold medals in the Olympics. The last 28 years, [00:26:00] they won gold. It is the most dominant Olympic team. The U S produces. Period. There is no close second. They are the one. When you talk about U. S. Olympic dynasty, they're the one.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. There's nothing that comes close. Not the men's basketball, not swimming, not track and field, not gymnastics. There is nothing, nothing that comes close to women's Olympic basketball. They're just straight dominant. Okay. They've had no Olympic losses since 1992. Now I want some of y'all to really, really think about that.

Bruce Anthony: Some of y'all are actually listening to this right now, and y'all weren't even born before 1992. You were born after 1992. They've been [00:27:00] dominant your entire life. Cause I got some college students that listen to this show, these college students that listen to the show. Some of them were born after the two thousands, right?

Bruce Anthony: We're talking about a decade. A decade for some of you guys before you were born. That's how dominant this national team has been. Okay. In the 2024 Paris Olympics, the team has big is a mix of young players and veterans, seven of the players that are on a team returned from the 2020 team that won gold in Tokyo.

Bruce Anthony: So there's 12 roster spots, and 7 of the players that was on that 12 man team in 2020 are coming back to this 2024 team. Which means there's only 5 roster spots available that can be filled. Okay? This is, this is just math. Diana Taurasi, at age 42, is playing, is going to be playing her six, six Olympic games, a feat that has only been accomplished by 211 people in the history of the world.

Bruce Anthony: Listen to what I just said. And Diana [00:28:00] Taurasi is arguably this generation's greatest WNBA player. Like, she's, she's in that conversation with, uh, Cheryl Swoopes, Cynthia Cooper, Tamika Ketchings. Like there's, there's, there's a, there's a list, but Diana Tarassi is on that list. And I know everybody's going to bring out, I know everybody's going to bring out the name that I forgot, but she actually is.

Bruce Anthony: The best. So we're just going to leave that alone. The team also included WNBA stars and gold medalists like Aja Wilson, who is a two time MVP, the WNBA and Brianna Stewart, who was last season's, I believe MVP. So what was all the fuss about the fuss has been about Caitlin Clark, not being on the team and some of the arguments that have been made for Caitlin Clark, not [00:29:00] being on the team have been a little.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. Because just like in the first segment, just because you have privilege doesn't mean you can talk in every conversation. There's a lot of people that are new to women's basketball. I'm one of them. I'm one of them. And I know that everybody's like, well, Bruce, you're, you're a hypocrite. Aren't you doing the same thing that other people are doing?

Bruce Anthony: Yes. And no, I've actually done a little bit of research before I started talking and I've actually been following it and I'm actually a basketball person. I used to coach. Coached high school for, for a while. And my youth is pretty good. I've been coached under by I've been coached by legendary coaches.

Bruce Anthony: I've worked with legendary coaches. I know a little bit about a little bit about basketball. Okay. So I know a little bit about a little bit. I don't know much about the WNBA. I will be honest. I finally started watching the WNBA sparsely over the last couple of years. And this year, I don't know that there's been an uptick in my viewing.

Bruce Anthony: But I would say by and large, that goes across the board with me in all sports. Just as I've gotten [00:30:00] older, I've become less interested with sports and more interested in other things. So I don't think I've watched one NBA finals game and there's been four of them. There's one tonight. I might not even watch that one.

Bruce Anthony: This might be the game clencher one. So what is all the fuss about with Caitlin Clark? I think a lot of it has to do with race. So, like I said, a lot of people enter into this conversation that don't know what they're talking about. There's a lot of new eyeballs to the WNBA specifically for, because of Caitlin Clark, which is good for the WNBA.

Bruce Anthony: If it translates into not just people watching her being her fans, but if her fans spill off and become fans of the WNBA, which can only happen if she is. Playing well and talented. And because the more she's playing, the more talented to deeper, she's playing in the playoffs and maybe winning championships, the more visible the entire league will be, because there'll be more primetime games because it's Caitlin Clark.

Bruce Anthony: So she is definitely bringing eyeballs to the [00:31:00] league. And it's, it's, it's some people who were just curious. Some people, like I said, because she's white, they, they look at her as the great white hope and, and I don't know if there's necessarily anything wrong with white people looking at her and being amazed at, at the anomaly of a white person that's, uh, At least dominated college basketball, which is a predominant, still predominantly black, nowhere near as predominantly black as a WNBA.

Bruce Anthony: WNBA is black, black with college basketball. You, I think the university of Iowa, the team she played on had like two black players. So, you know, there's a little bit more diversity in the college game than there is in the WNBA. And WNBA is just, it's, it's pretty much majority, not all, but like 98 percent or close to it, like black.

Bruce Anthony: So, For her to come into the league, the way she dominated college basketball, they would think that that trans would translate immediately into the WNBA. [00:32:00] 

The Caitlin Clark Debate: WNBA vs. Olympics
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Bruce Anthony: That's not yet. It has not yet. And it may not, she may not dominate the WNBA like she did college basketball. She may never get to that level, but she could be a very, very good player for a long time.

Bruce Anthony: The problem is with all these new eyeballs, with not just white people, but also men. This is another demographic of white people. People with privilege that are new to the game, but that has such a strong opinion and want to voice their strong opinion on what's going on now. So with all these new eyeballs, everybody's an expert on what the game is when they've never been watching it and they feel like she should be on it.

Bruce Anthony: On the team because one popularity, like she's going to bring more eyeballs to the, to these Olympics and she's on the team, there's only a problem with that. Is it say that they put her on the team undeservingly, but because she is so popular, she's not going to play that much. Right. So all her fans are going to do is get agitated [00:33:00] that she isn't playing that much unless they just blow out teams all the time and then she's going to get garbage time and her fans still wouldn't be, you know, happy with that.

Analyzing Caitlin Clark's Rookie Stats
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Bruce Anthony: And oh, by the way, let's point out why she isn't quite good enough to be on this Olympic team. What are her stats this year for a rookie season? She's averaging 16. 8 points. That, right, that stat alone. If you're just looking at points, she's averaging almost 17 points a game. And you say, that's pretty doggone good.

Bruce Anthony: She's having a good season. And you say, well, she's averaging five rebounds a game. That's a lot. She's doing really well. And she's averaging six assists a game. Hey, once again, you look in at the stats and you say, I don't understand why she isn't on the team. Right? These stats are pretty good. They're not 24 top 30.

Bruce Anthony: Stats. They're pretty good stats. She's averaging one and a half steals a game. Here's where stats can lie to you. Because she's averaging 17 points a game, but she's averaging 17 points a game on 37 percent shooting. It's not good. [00:34:00] You're not going to shoot most of the time 50%. On job shots, but that percentage should be about 8%, 8 points higher.

Bruce Anthony: It should be closer to 45, 46 percent from the field. That's efficient scoring right now. She isn't very efficient scoring. I think that will change as she's been playing more and more games. She's been getting better and better and better, but as of right now, she's not very efficient. She's only shooting 33 percent from the three point line.

Bruce Anthony: Now your three point percentage is always going to be lower than your field goal percentage, because. Threes are a further distance than twos, right? But 33%, making one for every three? That's not good. That number should be around 40%. Just saying at the high thirties should be the lowest percentage. So once again, she's not very efficient.

Bruce Anthony: She's 89 percent from the free to launch. She's knocking down the free throws. That's good. As far as her [00:35:00] rankings among the rookies, like she's, she, yeah, they have the stats, the PRA is the player efficiency rating. She's not very rated very highly among the rookies, among the people that she was drafted with.

Bruce Anthony: She's not rated very highly on, on these. These, these stats that measure how effective you are as a player. These stats have been getting better as she's been getting more playing time, but like the quote unquote broadcasting rival, Angel Reese is like second. Among rookies and rebounds blocks and steals and P P R player efficiency rating, like she rates higher.

Bruce Anthony: So technically, Angel Reese is having a better season than Caitlin Clark is right now. And there are going to be some Caitlin Clark fans are going to say, no, she's not what you're talking about. She didn't score a lot of points. There is more to basketball. Let me explain this. There's more to basketball than just putting the ball in the basket.

Bruce Anthony: You have to be able to defend. Rebound, get your teammates involved. That's what an efficient basketball [00:36:00] player is. If it was just about scoring, then people, people like Dr. J would be rated higher on the list of greatest players than they actually are. It's more than scoring. It's about everything that you're doing.

Bruce Anthony: And even in that scoring, not being efficient. Now I'm not doing this to run her down. Once again, I am a fan of Caitlyn Clark. 

Merit vs. Popularity in Sports
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Bruce Anthony: I want her to do well, but whatever happened to being on a team based off of merit, right? Because these same people who are talking about, she deserves to be on the team because she's popular and she's going to bring more eyeballs.

Bruce Anthony: To the sport are, uh, are the same people that, that attack affirmative action, right? And attack quotas, which quotas was never a thing. Affirmative action is not quotas, right? But they say that it is saying that minorities were getting jobs over better qualified white people just because of this rule. And then that wasn't fair, [00:37:00] but yet it's fair for Caitlin Clark to be on a team that she's not qualified to be on for several reasons, right?

Bruce Anthony: She has not taken part of any of the USA basketball, like camps or anything like that. She hasn't been in the system at all. So that's number one, right? But even if she had done all of that, just from a statistical standpoint and player rankings. Like she's, she's not good enough to be on the team. And the idea that we would just put her on the team because she's popular and going to bring more eyeballs.

Bruce Anthony: And I've seen, I've seen sports talks, sports, talk, host, men, men, sports, talk, host, never really paid attention to the WNBA until now. Right. Saying this, saying this thing, she's going to bring more eyeballs. She's going to bring more [00:38:00] eyeballs. And I'm like, yeah, but she's, Whatever happened to Merit? She doesn't deserve to be on the team.

Bruce Anthony: She's not good enough to be on the team. That's the reason why she's not on the team. I thought this was America and that you had to earn what it is that you get. Is that still not a thing anymore? Do we, do we, do we just give stuff away? I know a lot of people, and this is a, this is a thing that I really feel bad about Caitlyn, I really feel for Caitlyn.

Bruce Anthony: There's a certain segment of the population, conservative right wing people who are saying that this was reverse racism, that she wasn't on the team because she's white. There are white players that are, that are on this team, just to, just to point that out. There are more than a few white players that are on this team.

Bruce Anthony: And they're actually like all stars and champions and MVPs. And they have the merit to be on team because they're good basketball players. So this idea that she was held off the team because she's white, I, [00:39:00] I get annoyed. I get annoyed when a certain segment of the white population in this country talk about how things are being taken away from them and that they deserve it.

Bruce Anthony: Because. Things are being taken away and given to other people, but at the same time, when things are based on merit say, well, what we didn't get it because of reverse racism, that's what the whole lawsuit to end affirmative action was, it said it was reverse racism and they won because the majority of people in this country are still white.

Bruce Anthony: Still privileged and they don't think that, uh, they're privileged. They don't realize it. It is ingrained in their DNA. They're entitled. You remember the song, this land is your land. This land is my land. You know, I mean, we are taught as Americans from the [00:40:00] beginning, this is all ours, but history says history has taught us in this country, it's all white people.

Bruce Anthony: And so when white people are taught this and I'm speaking genuine, genuinely, not, I am speaking genuinely, but generally, generally, not all white people. I feel like I shouldn't have to keep expressing that, but there are going to be people that they're going to take offense to that. And those people that take offense after I said, not speaking about all white people, speaking about a certain segment, you're offended.

Bruce Anthony: It's directed at you. You're telling on yourself. There's a certain segment of the population that this is what they've been told. This country is theirs and everything is theirs. And history, and in the history books, it's been proven it is theirs. They don't want to share. They think it's theirs. So when it's not given to them, it's reverse racism.

Bruce Anthony: And by the way, Caitlyn. [00:41:00] Caitlyn isn't saying that. She was, she was like, you know, I didn't expect to be put on a team. It's something to look forward to in the future. And I'm looking forward to that challenge. It is society creating these narratives for this young girl who is just, excuse me, young woman, this young woman who was straight out of college.

Bruce Anthony: She just graduated 22 years old. I mean, she's a woman, but I can say it because I'm almost 44. She's a kid. She's a kid. And she just wants to play basketball. She doesn't want right wing conservatives. Taking up some cause that isn't real and using her as some type of martyr that they can rally around.

Bruce Anthony: Sometimes, most of the time. People just need to shut the hell up. You're not supposed to be in every conversation. You should take a step back, [00:42:00] look around, say, hey, I don't really know anything about basketball. You didn't become an expert in the last six, eight weeks. That's not how that works, okay? Shut the hell up.

Colin Kaepernick and the NFL Controversy
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Bruce Anthony: I had a friend, I'm going on this note, I had a friend. When Colin Kaepernick took a knee, and he was blackballed, I'm gonna explain to you why he was black, or how he was blackballed. The person said, well I'm not watching the NFL because he took a knee, he's disrespecting the soldiers. Well, that's not what he did.

Bruce Anthony: Okay. Contrary to what a lot of people try to say, Him taking a knee was specifically, he was told, Hey, this is a good way to protest for, but without, you know, offending the military, he talked to somebody that was in the military. He was like, Hey, I don't really, I don't really like this protest you're doing, but if you want to make sure that you don't disrespect the military, just take a knee, but because people didn't want to hear what he was protesting, because they don't want to be confronted about a thing that make them uncomfortable.

Bruce Anthony: They [00:43:00] made it as, well, he's disrespecting the military, which. Black people out here disrespect the military. Police will disrespect the police. Not the military. We've been a part of the military. We have fought in almost every American war. We have spilled blood and lost lives. I have family members in the military.

Bruce Anthony: We're not disrespecting the military. We're disrespecting the country that disrespects us, right? We're bringing attention to the disrespect that certain institutions of this country have against us. But this person that I know didn't want to hear about it, said, I'm not going to watch football. He's disrespecting the military and they should kick him out.

Bruce Anthony: Well, when he was blackballed because no other team would pick him up because they didn't want the distraction. This person came back to watch in the NFL. I said, Oh, you're back to watch in the NFL. Yeah, I'm back. I'm like, you're not offended at the fact that he's been blackballed for his beliefs. He wasn't blackballed, he wasn't that good.

Bruce Anthony: That's the reason why he's not in the league. [00:44:00] That was another narrative that people that don't understand football at all, all of a sudden became experts said that he wasn't good enough. I said, the man that the year before he started kneeling was in the, was a starting quarterback in the Superbowl and almost won the Superbowl.

Bruce Anthony: And Oh, by the way, he wasn't just some quarterback that happened to be in the Superbowl. He was a pro bowler that, that quarterback all of a sudden didn't good enough anymore. But Brett Favre. The thief who was stealing money from the welfare services in the state of Mississippi to build a volleyball court for the Southern Miss played multiple seasons after the age of 40, basically on his name.

Bruce Anthony: He was good enough to find a job. You're telling me 64 quarterback jobs, 32 team league, first string, second string. Hell, let's even add a third string, right? But let's keep the number simple. 64 spots. You're telling me he's not one of the 64 best [00:45:00] quarterbacks in the league. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Bruce Anthony: He's not that good. I was like, okay, I'm not going to continue on this conversation with you because you're ignorant. You don't know what you're talking about. And instead of just saying you don't like his politics and you're happy that it's not an elite, you're making a falsehood excuses is the reason why he's not an elite.

Bruce Anthony: You're speaking on something. That you shouldn't be speaking on. Yes. This was a white woman. Yes. Her privilege made her think that she had a right in that conversation. She did not because she didn't know what she was talking about. And this goes back to the original quote. Privilege is something people get to have feel like they're entitled to it.

Bruce Anthony: It's ingrained in their DNA. But sometimes most times people listen to me clearly. You don't have to have a conference. You don't have to have a voice in every conversation. Sometimes quite simply, you can shit. The hell.[00:46:00] 

Bruce Anthony: All right. 

A Cop's OnlyFans Scandal
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Bruce Anthony: We're going to end the show on something light. I'm tired of lecturing. I know I get on here and I get preachy. I'm trying to get better at that, but some of y'all, well, more than a few of y'all actually like the fact that I do that. I'm trying to be better with my tone. I will get there, but this last segment is lighter.

Bruce Anthony: And I just came across the story and found it very interesting. The title of this segment is going to be basically a dumb ass cop. And I know I did the interview last week with Matt Solomon, Solomon, and you should guys should go check out that interview. He talks a lot about policing and some of the strategies that are used in policing that perpetuates perpetuates.

Bruce Anthony: Societal disenfranchised disenfranchisement and injustices. He's, he's very well [00:47:00] versed, did a documentary or did a film reimagining safety, go check it out. But I know it seems like I've been dumping on cops. My best friend's father's retired cop. I respect. The fact that they, that they do a job that's very, very dangerous, right?

Bruce Anthony: But sometimes your job isn't dangerous and you just do dumb shit. And this is a prime example of that. Sean Herman, some of y'all may have heard the story. Sean Herman is a former officer now with the Metro Nashville Police Department. He was involved in a controversy related to an OnlyFans video. What was that OnlyFans video?

Bruce Anthony: Well, let's, I'll get to that in a minute, but let's, you know, he was arres let's keep on with Sean. Sean was arrested on two counts of felony official misconduct for participating in an OnlyFans skit. The video was filmed while he was on duty and in uniform, uh, individual. He allegedly [00:48:00] groped. It wasn't allegedly I saw the video.

Bruce Anthony: He groped, he groped the exposed breast of a female driver during a Mac, a mock traffic stop. The video was filmed on April 26th in a warehouse parking lot in the Madison area while Herman was on duty as a patrol officer. He was fired from Metro Nashville police department on May 9th. One day after detectives discovered the video and identified him as the man in it, Herman 33 was employed by the department for three years.

Bruce Anthony: He was released from jail after posting the bond. So in the skit, a woman gets, they mock up, pull over, right? Cop gets pulled over. A cop pulls over somebody. It's a woman and woman's like, Hey, what can I do to get out of this ticket? And he was like, you can't do anything. She pulls down her top. She was like, you can have anything if you just let me out of this.

Bruce Anthony: And he grabs her. In the shot, you can see his face, you can see the, uh, and I, and I watched this video completely, [00:49:00] completely for resource material. I assure you that it was solely to watch the video and confirm that what I was seeing was what it was. And, uh, to be able to convey this to you with, with the truth, because I'm a journalist, you have to do your research.

Bruce Anthony: So I did my research and watch the video. And in the video, you can see his face clear as day. It's not grainy or anything. He's not blurred out. You can see that he's in uniform. He even pulls up with the cruiser that he's on duty. Uh, driving this man is on duty. Feminine only fan skit. Now it doesn't get any more graphic than that, or, you know, it's not like I paid for the video.

Bruce Anthony: I saw the clip of the video. So I don't know what goes on after the video, but woman pulls down the top breast are exposed. He gropes them all while on duty. And I'm just like, look, I [00:50:00] know only fans is lucrative. Hey, you know, I've thought about doing all the fans, you know, foot finder or something, you know, I'm trying to do some things with my life.

Bruce Anthony: And you know, a little extra cash never hurt nobody. I will never disrespect somebody's kink. And, you know, I'm sexually liberated. Let's move on from that. I don't, I don't know where that statement is going to take a lot of people's minds. But let's just say, you know, I have no problem talking about sex.

Bruce Anthony: You know, sex is sex. Sex is a natural thing. You know, every species. On this planet has some form of sex. So it's a, it's a natural thing, but you can't do it when you're on the job. What is it again? And of course you're going to lose your job. Now I have a million and one questions and some of the questions revolve around what, like, how do you find out?

Bruce Anthony: So supposedly [00:51:00] the story was, is that the reason why he was discovered is because people called in, people saw the video, you know, I guess, you know, subscribers saw the video. And they called in and they said, Hey, is this real? Does he really work for you guys? Cause he was out here groping on women. So somebody knocked on him.

Bruce Anthony: Somebody snitched on him and he probably got a nice little payday, but wasn't worth losing his job over. But maybe it is, maybe he's going to become an only fan star. He was a fairly good looking man. You know, I mean, he wasn't ugly. Maybe, you know, he wouldn't turn that into something. He's still fairly young.

Bruce Anthony: He's only 33 years old. You know, maybe being a cop, maybe being police wasn't in his future. Maybe, you know, being sexy. Sexy, uh, demon was in his future. I, I say sexy demon, like that's not, that was just words that just came to my head just now. Ain't nothing wrong with what he did from the standpoint of doing it in general, but doing it while on duty and you get caught and you can't deny it.

Bruce Anthony: Like, I don't even know what excuse and you know, [00:52:00] cops to get fired from your job, you gotta do something egregious. Even his lawyers, people that represent cops, it's kind of like, man, I don't really know what to tell you, man. He was on duty, in uniform, in your official uniform, using your police cruiser, groping on women.

Bruce Anthony: That just gives a bad look to the whole police department. We gotta let you go, man. You got to go. Look, you got to go. I don't know what you was thinking. It's like a And the scene from good fellows was like, you got to go home. There's like, you got to go home. You got to go. Cause you can't stay here because you're stupid.

Bruce Anthony: He's under investigation too. So this would be like his actions. Anytime a police officer has misconduct, it could be criminal or civil. We don't know what the end result is going to be. There's a bunch of different things. There's federal laws. There's criminal laws. There's several cases. There's a police misconduct provision.

Bruce Anthony: That's the violent crime control and law enforcement act of [00:53:00] 1994. It includes the police misconduct provision. The PMP, the PMP, the PMP allows the DOJ to sue law enforcement agencies that display a pattern or practice of unlawful behavior. I mean, that opens the door for this, the police department be sued by the DOJ because they're like, look, we've got police officers out there.

Bruce Anthony: And in uniform groping on women, like, was this real, wasn't a mock, was it something that they said? Was it something that was real that they turned it into a mock to cover his own self? You know, I mean, this is something that opens up your department for a lot of, a lot of stuff. And if they start to dig deep and they find misconduct with one person and the DOJ that does an investigation, your police department, and maybe some of your detectives have, uh, Been playing evidence.

Bruce Anthony: You know, it could open you up. I'm not saying that's the case. I'm saying, when you open your police department up to investigation, [00:54:00] they might be looking for one thing and find some other stuff. That's how investigations go. Right. Looking for one thing, but Oh, hold on, man. I was looking for you for selling crack cocaine.

Bruce Anthony: I didn't know you was pimping hoes as well. Like that's, that's how they get you. That's how investigations get you. You think you just being investigated because you sell drugs to community and they find out you selling women to the community as well. That's, that's how investigations go. So the police department was like, nah, man, you got to go.

Bruce Anthony: And I can understand this. The, it's a really bad look. Police officers are supposed to be above reproach. That's the copaganda that Matthew Solomon was talking about. They're supposed to be above approach, reproach. But they're human beings and they make mistakes. And Shia Herman made a mistake. I don't know him from, from Sam.

Bruce Anthony: Random person. Like, I don't know him. I don't know what he has in his heart. I don't know if he's good or [00:55:00] bad. I don't really even care. This is all I'll say. Rarely do I defend the poli. He should have been fired, but I'm not going to condemn this man for this ignorant act, you know, he's, uh, I guess he's a millennial barely.

Bruce Anthony: No, he's a millennial. He's a millennial. So he should have known a little bit better, but this, the, the, the fame and the, the, the, the attraction to it will cause you to do things that are out of your character and cause people to make mistakes like Sean did. He lost his job, but like I said, maybe he's got a career and own fans.

Bruce Anthony: I don't know. Who knows? All right, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you all for listening and tuning in our subscribers lists for YouTube and the number of downloads for our audios just are growing. I can not be more thankful. Audience that we're growing and it kind of [00:56:00] sucks because we're about to go on a two week hiatus.

Bruce Anthony: I'll let you guys know when that is, which is going to be around the 4th of July. We're going to go on it. Maybe, maybe it'll be a one week hiatus, but there'll be a little break that me and my sister are going to take from shows. I'm going to take a, not a vacation vacation, but like a vacation from my, my regular job and doing this break.

Bruce Anthony: That's very much needed. But, I am going to try to do some YouTube exclusive segments on that break, the post. So definitely go subscribe to the YouTube page that has all of our shows on there. All, all the shows are the quote unquote segments. Second season, first 11 episodes that we didn't do video. That was just audio or not on there.

Bruce Anthony: You can always listen to them, but everything after that, everything at the start of 2023 is all video and that's on there and you can check that out. But ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening. [00:57:00] Thank you for watching. Thank you for supporting. And until next time, as always, I'll holler. That was a hell of a show.

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