South Carolina capped an undefeated season April 7 with a win over Clark and Iowa in the Women’s NCAA Tournament title game. Staley made a remote appearance last week on the CBS Mornings show, and King asked her about the game, mentioning, “We were all cheering for Iowa, of course, and Caitlin Clark …”
In an expletive-filled rant, Jackson ripped King.
So, Gayle King’s supposed to be somebody that’s big in the journalism space, right? And I don’t consider her black media. Y’all give her all these passes because she’s Oprah’s friend. I don’t give a f*** whose friend she is.
“But you cannot demean Dawn Staley like that. You’re talking to her about winning the championship, about going undefeated. And you have the nerve to get on there and say, ‘We was rooting for Caitlin Clark and you broke everybody’s hearts.’ Who is we? All the black people I know was rooting for Dawn Staley. We’re all fans of Caitlin Clark, but the way you put it, that s*** was trash.
I’m glad it’s a new day in the media space. … You don’t even say stuff like that to somebody on an interview. You demeaned her and made it about Caitlin Clark. That’s trash.”
