The RGIII versus Ryan Clark saga continues, and on this case, it looks like Michelle Obama’s notorious “after they go low, you go excessive” strategy to battle is clearly out the window.
After Clark referred to as out how Robert Griffin III’s (referred to as RGIII) interracial courting and marriage historical past performed a component in his current tone-deaf feedback about Angel Reese, some social media customers researched Clark’s courting historical past. This investigation made customers level out that Clark’s eldest daughter, Jaden, is biracial.
However did it create the “gotcha” second they have been hoping for?
In response to critics, Clark took to social media to deal with the rising feedback on his daughter’s racial background.
“I didn’t know this was information, however since different folks need to speak about her… That is my first, Jaden. My God, she’s stunning. All of her! I fell in love along with her the primary time I ever noticed her, & I’ve liked her on daily basis since,” he wrote on X and Instagram sharing pictures of him and his daughter. “Perhaps, the information in gentle of this week is that she’s biracial. So? She is an ideal a part of my God given expertise, & the sum of these experiences make me who I’m!”
Now, the assaults on each Clark and RGIII’s private lives all stemmed from a tweet RGIII shared following Angel Reese and Caitlain Clark’s foul through the WNBA season opener.
Including much more gas to the fireplace, the sports activities commentator shared “proof” to again his sizzling take about Reese in a YouTube video, which featured his spouse awkwardly sitting within the background as he spent practically 22 minutes disparaging Reese.
And as theGrio’s Panama Jackson famous, “RGIII primarily mentioning how this Black lady hates this white lady along with his white spouse within the background was horrible optics.”
“The one factor we learn about RGIII is he’s not having dialog at his residence about what Black ladies must endure on this nation…about what younger Black ladies and athletes like Angel Reese have needed to take care of,” Clark initially stated in response to RGIII’s remark about Reese, on his podcast. “So now when you’re RGIII when is the final time, inside your family, you had a dialog about what [Angel Reese] is coping with? You haven’t been in a position to do this as a result of in each of your marriages you’ve been married to white ladies.”
To which RGIII responded, saying that the man sports activities commentator and former NFL teammate “sprinted previous” a line, turning a remark that he says was rooted in basketball into a private problem. Whereas sports activities commentators proceed to feud over the WNBA foul, Reese has moved on from the state of affairs.
“Basketball play. Refs bought it proper. Transfer on.” she stated in a press convention, after the sport. “My ideas are precisely what the gamers are saying. Let’s not make it something that it’s not and transfer on,”ESPN commentator Ari Chambers echoed in an look on SportsCenter.
