70% of WNBA players are black - only 3 have sneaker deals - All are white

Not a single black owner in any of the 4 major pro sports in America has nothing to do with racism, right?

The denial is astounding

You're trying to distract again from your original complaint, which had to do with alleged racism in giving out WNBA shoe contracts. It's a very "politician" move you're pulling -- when you look like you're losing on the original point, deflect to some other point and move the goalposts. Come on now, no one here is falling for this.

Owners being white has nothing to do with shoe companies not giving black women a signature shoe.

I have already made that argument at least a half a dozen times.

The bigger Picture is the systemic racism in who gets to own sports clubs.

Shoe companies giving signature shoes to only white players in a league that is 70% black means either the companies are racist and wrong about the consumers or the consumers are racist. I tend to think its the companies.

You have another explanation?

Obviously, you didn't read the article and its refuration of either black or white and written by an African. An African who brought up a book written in the 1920s that identified Jews as Asiatic. The Jew mentioned in the article states that he doesn't want to check a box.

Also, Burke mentioned in a previous thread that he admires Hitler.

Always and forever lying on black people on letsrun.com

You whyt losers need to get over your obsession with black people.

Well it's not the NBA owners. I think the shoe companies are making a huge mistake not giving Wilson and others a signature shoe.

Surprised Lavar Ball's BigBallerBrand hasn't jumped into the action. Surprised IceT hasn't invited an African American woman into the Big3 as he did with Clark and the 5 million dollar offer.

1. You are lying. Each of the three sources I posted concerns Jews claiming they are not white. The 3rd one is from Jpost. None of them was written by an African.

jpost.com

Are Jews white? And why it matters

Did we personally experience antisemitism? If so, to what extent? Overall, how accepted did we feel here?

Link:www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/are-jew...

2. I don't know who Burke is but he ain't me

So you agree the shoe companies are being racist in their view of the consumer.

Nope. You have not. Your posts are generally one or two sentences long and are bare assertions stating conclusions with no supporting evidence. There is one post I found that contains four sentences, which is perhaps the closest thing to an argument you've made. You said:

"If the shoe companies believe this [that white players are more marketable than black players] and it's not so, the owners are racist. If it is true, the public is racist. How do I know how the companies think? Based on their actions of giving 3 white players their own shoes and no black players when blacks are the majority of the league"

This is fallacious reasoning, which is common among race grifters and race activists: the old "disparate impact" argument. If less black people get X than white people, it must be because of systemic racism. Except that there are always plenty of other possible explanations which people making the argument always try to conceal or ignore. You're also still trying to distract from the issue by continually bringing up ownership demographics in other leagues, including leagues where even the most basic knowledge of the sport would show that black players get all kinds of endorsement deals.

I'll make one counterargument and leave it at that until you provide any kind of actual argument for your conclusion: if there are a grand total of three players with shoe deals in an entire league, then there is unlikely to be systemic racism because around 99 percent of the players, regardless of race, do not get shoe deals. If only three people from a large pool get anything, you don't have nearly enough data to determine anything. You'd be on stronger ground if there were 50 players with shoe deals and white players were overrepresented, but even so, the old "disparate impact" fallacy would still be staring you in the face.

they don't have enough money.

Honestly, the first time I saw the article, the only 1 that opened up was the NYTimes magazine article written by an African American with the anecdote from one Jew not wanting to check off any box. I just saw the others.

I'm sure you've read plenty of posts by Burke.

Newname, bro we get it that the DEI grift is getting scarce with all the firings around the country:) But maybe you should take your rtard commie leftie racist propaganda somewhere else, like cnn forums or something where you would be in sync with other commie rtards

Proves the United States of America is the most racist country in the history on Planet Earth.

You at the minimum need to be worth about $5 billion. No black men or ladies have that much money.

Here is the complete history of signature sneakers in WNBA.

Sheryl Swoopes. (1995) *This was before the inception of the league.

Rebecca Robo. (1997)

Lisa Leslie. (1998)

Dawn Staley. (1998)

Cynthia Cooper. (1999)

Nikki McCray. (1999)

Chamique Holdsclaw. (2001)

Diana Tarausi. (2005).

Candace Parker. (2010).

Breanna Stewart. (2022).

Elena Del Donne. (2022).

Sabrina Ionescu. (2023).

Caitlin Clark. (2024).

Jersey sales in 2021.

1. Sabrina Ionescu.

2. Sue Bird. (now retired).

3. Diana Taurausi.

4. A'Ja Wilson.

5. Breanna Stewart.

6. Candace Parker.

7. Skylar Diggins-Smith.

8. Elena Delle Donne.

9. Maya Moore. (now retired)

10. Liz Cambage. (no longer with the league)

Based on this, Wilson definitely deserves her own signature shoes, and maybe Diggins-Smith, too. It's interesting Bird never got her signature shoes, given how popular she was for so long.