WNBA player Natasha Cloud’s Twitter hot take calling America “trash” is getting roasted from several fronts, including from NBA star and human rights champion Enes Kanter Freedom, who cautioned that she wouldn’t “want to see the other side.”
Cloud’s tweet followed the Supreme Court’s controversial affirmative action ruling that dominated headlines last Thursday and beyond, writing in full, “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.”
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
She added, “Religion in this country is political, it’s weaponized, it’s hypocritical, it’s disappointing. It’s not love. Because God is love. In the purest form. Take a good hard look at how y’all live your life in a constant state of hate and judgment. Hypocrisy at its finest.”
Freedom fired back, telling Cloud to ask her colleague Brittney Griner – who was infamously held captive in a Russian prison for months after being detained at a Moscow airport – about her experience in a less-forgiving country.
“Calling America trash huh?” he wrote in part. “Let me know when your season is over, I’ll buy your ticket and we can go together to counties like China, Russia, IRAN, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, & Turkey.”
Also let me just say this for all the folk on my TL.
If I don’t give af was a person it’s me🤣🤷🏽♀️ yall finna make me money cause of how much real estate I’m holding in yalls minds.
And also for my religion weaponizers…y’all the people that killed Jesus.
— Natasha Cloud (@T_Cloud4) July 1, 2023
There, he said Cloud lacked “perspective” on the issue,
“You’re talking about irony right there,” he told Strohmier and Shimkus. “If you’re born into the middle class in this country, you live like a king pretty much anywhere else in the world, and immigrants that come to this country and are so patriotic, nothing gets me more proud of my service than to hear someone who has English as a second language brag on this country because I know they get it.”
Jones, a Marine veteran who lost his legs in Afghanistan, lambasted Cloud as “quintessential Gen Z,” someone who has “a million complaints” without much to back them up, including no comparison to other countries.
