Ryan Clark issued an apology to Robert Griffin III’s wife Grete after the two clashed amid conversation about a foul. That foul was Caitlin Clark’s hard foul of Angel Reese that caught on like wildfire.
Initially, Griffin III took a stance that Reese hated Clark and it’s been proven over time during the course of their on-court rivalry. Clark claimed the former QB jumped on the hate train of black women and, basically, that Griffin did not understand due to having a wife who happened to be white.
That’s where Griffin III drew the line and came at Clark, which was followed by more personal attacks from Clark to his former teammate on the field and at ESPN. But, Clark eventually released a 30 minute solo podcast to sum up his feelings and ultimately apologize to Griffin’s wife.
“She should not have been brought up in me trying to make a point about how having black women close to you and the things that you learn from them, can help you in the way that you approach and speak to and about she didn’t need to be the illustration of that,” Clark said on his podcast, The Pivot. “I can speak positively about what they are without making the insinuation that is something that non black women don’t do. Well, I’m doing the exact same thing, or it may have seemed that I did the exact same thing to her that I’m trying to keep people from doing to black women.”
Clark then explained his thought process. Whether or not he believed he was right, Clark explained why he made certain connections in his initial take.
“My thought process was in seeing certain clips on my algorithm, on my timeline,” Clark said. “They do a podcast together. In that podcast, they talk very openly about not being black enough, they talk very openly about biracial kids, what it’s like to not be accepted in the black community. They very rarely talk about black women. In the video that RG III posted that I felt like mocked Angel Reese, she was in the background.
“The optics of RG three, a black man attacking and imitating and what I felt insulting mocking a black woman as his wife was in the background, almost seemingly as a prop of and this is my feeling of what was good, amen-ing, nodding along and applauding, what I felt like was a personal attack. I didn’t, but that doesn’t mean, because I have that feeling about what you do to someone else that I could do that to you.”
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