women on this team, we do have a lot of people that are from different areas, 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. I’m in a unique situation where I see it with myself — I’ll talk trash and I’ll get a different reaction than if Angel talks trash. I have a duty to my teammates to have their back, and obviously some of the words that were used in that article were very sad and upsetting. I actually didn’t want us to read the article before the game because hearing stuff like that — it’s not right, and that type of description of us isn’t always motivating. Calling us basically the ‘dirty debutantes’, like that has nothing to do with sports and that’s not motivating. I wish we hadn’t of read that because I think that that can crush your soul a little bit, that someone would ever say that about us that doesn’t know us. In my opinion, I know for a fact that people see us differently because we do have a lot of Black women on our team who have an attitude and like to talk trash, and people feel way about it, but at the end of the day, I’m rocking with them because they don’t let that change who they are.”
