WNBA champion Natasha Cloud talked about her ardour for social justice on Thursday.
Cloud, who beforehand spoke out towards the U.S. authorities on social media over the price of residing in Might 2024, spoke this week in protection of DEI after President Donald Trump ordered the elimination of a number of authorities DEI packages.
“The systems of power are working as they always were intended to work,” Cloud instructed The Related Press. “And it’s time to break down a system that has only been about White men.”
Cloud added that she believes the nation is placing “money over people.”
“I understand the business aspect and I understand the human aspect,” Cloud stated. “Too often this country has put the human aspect aside, and put profit and money over people.”
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Mercury guard Natasha Cloud towards the Indiana Fever at Footprint Middle in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 30, 2024. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA As we speak Sports activities)
The 33-year-old Connecticut Solar guard’s earlier assertion on the price of residing known as for Individuals of all backgrounds to talk up in regards to the excessive value of residing.
“At some point we gotta put our differences aside and understand WE ARE ALL GETTING f—–. & idk about yall im tired of this s—. Everybody can eat. They just make us think everyone eating means someone’s taking from your plate. A lie. Our government been taking all OUR food,” she wrote on X. “Forreal idc if you’re a republican or a democrat. White black brown..idc what your religion or sexual preference is. Etc.
“When you don’t wanna battle for a stranger than battle for Your self Your children Your grandkids Your dad and mom who labored their total lives to not have the ability to afford retiring Your sister who pays thousand for insulin that prices {dollars} to make Your daughter in 100k debt after school.”
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Phoenix Mercury guard Natasha Cloud gestures after a three-point basket against the LA Sparks at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, July 7, 2024. (Kirby Lee-USA Today Sports)
In that post, Cloud tagged the Democratic Party, Republican Party, former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, while pointing out issues like inflation and the national minimum wage.
But prior to that, in 2020, Cloud sat out the WNBA season to focus on community reform efforts and join the George Floyd protests. She also used her social media platforms that year to call for WNBA arenas to be used as polling locations.
Now, Cloud is just one of the players on the Connecticut Sun calling for political activism at the start of Trump’s second term.
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Natasha Cloud of the Phoenix Mercury posts up against Angel Reese of the Sky on Aug. 15, 2024, at Wintrust Arena in Chicago. (Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Her Connecticut Sun teammate DiJonai Carrington incited fierce backlash by wearing an anti-Trump shirt in January, and a week later she called for WNBA players to “take motion.”
“We see that a number of the insurance policies are already going into motion, and, after all, that implies that because the WNBA and being on the forefront of numerous these actions, it is time for us to additionally take motion,” Carrington stated. “It positively must occur as ladies, ladies’s rights being taken away, like, now, LGBTQ rights being taken away now. They have not occurred but, however positively within the works.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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