WNBA champ's defiant message after suggesting US puts focus on 'profit and money over people'

Natasha Cloud, the WNBA champion defender who presently plays for the Connecticut Sun, fired disconnected a defiant connection connected societal media pursuing her proposition that the U.S. has focused connected nett implicit radical galore times.

Cloud made the remarks successful an interview with The Associated Press and defended programs that beforehand diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Amid disapproval implicit her words, Cloud didn’t look to waver.

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Phoenix Mercury's Natasha Cloud, #0, dribbles during the archetypal fractional of a WNBA hoops crippled against the Indiana Fever successful Indianapolis connected Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

"Thing is I’m not soft, & words don’t wounded maine lol are we 5? it inactive remains radical implicit profit," she wrote connected X. "If yall genuinely astir being unbiased… Google hunt immoderate overseas media sum of what’s happening successful America.

"Then travel backmost to maine and archer maine the full satellite crazy."

Cloud said past week it was important for athletes to talk retired present much than ever arsenic Trump ended authorities DEI programs, and corporations followed suit.

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Phoenix Mercury defender Natasha Cloud, #0, against the Indiana Fever astatine Footprint Center successful Phoenix connected June 30, 2024. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)

"The systems of powerfulness are moving arsenic they ever were intended to work," Cloud said. "And it’s clip to interruption down a strategy that has lone been astir White men."

Cloud past said she believed the region had enactment its absorption connected "money implicit people."

"I recognize the concern facet and I recognize the quality aspect," Cloud said. "Too often this state has enactment the quality facet aside, and enactment nett and wealth implicit people."

The three-time All-Defensive Team enactment has not shied distant from speaking her caput connected societal media.

Phoenix Mercury defender Natasha Cloud, #0, reacts to a telephone against the Las Vegas Aces during the 3rd 4th astatine Footprint Center successful Phoenix connected Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. (Michael Chow/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK)

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She called connected Americans to talk retired against the precocious outgo of surviving successful the U.S. and had a tiff with erstwhile NBA subordinate Enes Kanter Freedom implicit criticisms of the country successful 2023.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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