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USA Today sports columnist Nancy Armour issued a pathetic non-apology Thursday after facing fierce backlash for invoking the lynching of Emmett Till in a deranged column attacking WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark.<\/p>\n
Armour\u2019s column, published Wednesday under the headline \u201cCaitlin Clark\u2019s flopping isn\u2019t just annoying \u2014 it\u2019s becoming dangerous,\u201d<\/a> accused Clark of exaggerating contact, berating referees, and creating a dangerous environment for the league\u2019s predominantly black and female players.<\/p>\n But Armour did not stop at criticizing Clark\u2019s behavior on the basketball court.<\/p>\n She dragged race, sexuality, \u201cwhite nationalism,\u201d and one of the most horrific murders in American history into a debate over foul calls in a women\u2019s basketball game.<\/p>\n Armour claimed there is a \u201cwhite nationalist faction\u201d among Clark\u2019s enormous fan base that views the Indiana Fever star as a white woman who must be defended against black opponents.<\/p>\n She then argued that Clark\u2019s complaints to referees could provoke racist abuse against black and queer WNBA players\u2014even invoking Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black boy who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955.<\/p>\n According to Armour, Clark should recognize the supposed \u201cwider consequences\u201d of protesting missed calls because America has a history of black people being attacked in the name of defending white women.<\/p>\n This was published by a major national newspaper.<\/p>\n Following widespread outrage, Armour released a statement Thursday admitting that she had made an \u201cinartful comparison\u201d involving Till\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n But Armour did not retract her central accusation against Clark.<\/p>\n Instead, she immediately doubled down, declaring that \u201cthis point stands\u201d and continuing to argue that perceived threats against white women can be weaponized against black Americans.<\/p>\n Armour said she regretted that what she described as a lack of context had overshadowed what she considered an important conversation.<\/p>\n In other words, she wasn\u2019t apologizing for making the grotesque comparison. She was apologizing because readers supposedly failed to understand what she meant.<\/p>\n That\u2019s not an apology. That\u2019s a lecture disguised as one.<\/p>\n One thing is clear: Armour doesn\u2019t appear to regret what she wrote. She regrets the backlash it caused.<\/p>\n Read her statement below:<\/p>\n In my recent column, made an inartful comparison with the murder of Emmett Till.<\/p>\n I intended to connect the issues the WNBA is currently facing with its All-Star Game being hosted in Till\u2019s hometown of Chicago.<\/p>\n I obviously did not provide enough context for that.<\/p>\n However, this point stands: There is a history in this country of perceived threats to white women being weaponized against African-Americans, and the danger that poses to Black players in the league.<\/p>\n Players have been abused online and have reported receiving death threats. That has to be taken more seriously.<\/p>\n I sincerely regret that my lack of appropriate context is overshadowing that important conversation and the action that needs to be taken by the WNBA to address it directly \u2013 for the benefit of ALL players.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Statement from USA Today sports columnist Nancy Armour pic.twitter.com\/wif3P9Yg82<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Joe Schad (@schadjoe) July 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n USA Today also refused to disavow Armour\u2019s column. Lark-Marie Anton, chief communications and brand officer for USA Today Co., told Front Office Sports<\/a> that Armour is an opinion columnist and that the article had been \u201cupdated for clarity.\u201d The outlet declined further comment.<\/p>\n The post PATHETIC NON-APOLOGY: Unhinged USA Today Columnist Issues Weak \u201cApology\u201d After Claiming Caitlin Clark Endangers \u201cBlack and Queer\u201d Women by Inspiring \u201cWhite Nationalists\u201d to \u201cLynch\u201d Blacks<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USA Today sports columnist Nancy Armour issued a pathetic non-apology Thursday after facing fierce backlash for invoking the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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