Natasha Cloud, a player in the WNBA, went on an anti-America tirade on Twitter after the recent wave of Supreme Court decisions were announced. The Washington Mystics guard quickly called our country “trash,” and the 31-year-old did not stop there when calling for change.
Her cornerstone Tweet, which she fired off at 11:22 am on Friday, June 30, said the following. “Our country is trash in so many ways and instead of using our resources to make it better we continue to oppress Marginalized groups that we have targeted since the beginning of times.” Cloud continued, saying, “Black/brown communities& LGBTQ+ man we are too powerful to still be attacking issues separate.”
Our country is trash in so many ways and instead of using our resources to make it better we continue to oppress Marginalized groups that we have targeted since the beginning of times.
Black/brown communities& LGBTQ+ man we are too powerful to still be attacking issues separate
— Natasha Cloud (@T_Cloud4) June 30, 2023
Regardless of one’s opinion regarding the recent rulings in the Supreme Court, it would be hard actually to justify calling America “trash,” given that the country has consistently been a major world leader since at least the early 20th century. Anyhow, when one commenter told Cloud that she should move do a different nation if she hates America this much, the WNBA player quickly obliged, saying, “I will be (moving).”
Just a few minutes after her original Tweet, shown above, Cloud had another take on the current state of America. “I feel like im gonna see a civil war in my lifetime,” she said. In an attempt to explain where she would move once she finally musters the courage to leave America, Cloud wrote, “I’m feeling somewhere with human rights, healthcare, and no mass shootings.”
I feel like im gonna see a civil war in my lifetime.
— Natasha Cloud (@T_Cloud4) June 30, 2023
Cloud is no stranger to this extreme social justice warrior behavior. In an interview with WNBA.com, Cloud discussed her protesting in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020, which led to her missing the entire 2020 WNBA season. “Honestly, the work that I was able to do in 2020 and over the past few years in my community are what I am most proud of. There are a lot of things you can boast about, but taking a stance in 2020 (is one of them).”
Cloud didn’t regret taking that season off and made sure to use the interview to share with people that she is a hero for risking her professional basketball career. Cloud said, “I don’t think people realize how detrimental to my career that decision could have been.” She continued later, saying, “That could have been the end of my career, but God willing, it wasn’t.”
While Cloud probably has a better grasp on the culture of the WNBA than someone like me, who has never seen a game, from the outside looking in, it is hard to believe that a social justice stance would do anything other than increase her worth to the league. Just like Brittany Griner and her America-hating stances, Cloud has become the poster-girl for a league that seems content to push back against the country that allows them to pay an exorbitant amount of money to players with very few actual fans.
Featured image: Lorie Shaull, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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