HVL says racism behind LSU hate

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Van Lith: Racism behind negative LSU comments

LSU guard Hailey Van Lith defended her team following a Los Angeles Times column that described players as "dirty debutantes," calling those who perceive them negatively as "being racist toward my teammates."

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"We do have a lot of Black women on this team, and unfortunately, that bias does exist still today, and a lot of the people that are making those comments are being racist towards my teammates," Van Lith, who is white, said. "I'm in a unique situation where I see with myself, I'll talk trash and I'll get a different reaction than if Angel [Reese] talks trash. I have a duty to my teammates to have their back. Some of the words that were used in that article were very sad and upsetting.

"I've experienced it at Louisville. I've experienced it my whole life," Van Lith said. "A lot of the times, I'm one of the only white people on the team and so I do see things from a different perspective. I think a lot of people who live in communities that everyone is like them, that's when they tend to think, 'Oh, racism doesn't exist today.' But I have seen it and I experienced it, and I watch it happen to my teammates. I watch it happen to my friends.

"So, when I go back home, which is a mostly white community, I do share those experiences. When I was in high school, they tried to cancel the Martin Luther King Jr. assembly because we didn't have enough time for it, but every other holiday we had enough time for. We were a majority white high school, so no one had a problem with it. It's my responsibility to say things when that happens because I'm in a unique position."

HVL says she seen it her whole life

A certain demo might be done with her now

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

 

[broller]

Good for her. It helps when famous whites speak out in support of us.

Had Tom, Aaron or Drew supported the Kap movement in 2016 it would have helped. I remember when they aired that commercial in 2020. The league execs said because Mahomes was a part of it, they couldn't not get behind it.



Not that Mahomes is white, but because he was the top dog in the sport. Now if an actual white top dog had said something for us .

 

[skyrunner1]

She gonna be standing solo.. commendable I guess.. salute to her

 

[Justin Nitsuj]

She also mentioned how her high school didn't so called have time to celebrate MLK holiday, but had all time in the world to celebrate white based holidays

Racist white people are a huge problem and I hate that the non racist white people are caught in the crossfire.

 

[KidJSoul]

Props to her

 

[Sauce Dab]

Mulkey seeing HVL talk about racism

 

[Fresh]

well racist white people can't say HVL is pulling the "race card" because she's a blonde blue eyed white girl

I also like that she went into detail

I've always said white people need to police each other when it comes to racism, and she did just that

 

[YakSpiller]

This will go right over all the racist she’s talking about head. They’ll call her “woke” or “lib” when none of those terms have anything to do with what she said. That’s the game they play.

 

[Spliff]

Yea Reese/LSU is getting Mayweather-esque heat. Its pretty wild.

Every HouseOfHighlight post about them is littered with garbage.

 

[BaggerofTea]

went further than her head coach, much respect for calling out the bs

 

[MikelArteta]

Our milk of magnesia

 

[10bandz]

Shes right. LA Times cac calling them dirty debutantes is sus as fukk.

 

[Lord Beasley]

She took the right stand. Im here for it

 

[42 Monks]