A Texas A&M women’s basketball assistant coach hit back after facing backlash for wearing pink leather pants and stilettos to a game.
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‘I’m unapologetically myself every day, I could care less if anybody thinks that I’m being extra,’ Sydney Carter said in response to her critics.
‘I’m not gonna turn my light off because somebody else is offended or intimidated by the fact that I embrace myself.’
The 31-year-old Aggies assistant coach believes race plays a major factor in the criticism. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
"I just think that people are uncomfortable with a black woman being in a power position,’ she told Yahoo.
‘When you see a black woman who is actually confident and embracing herself, I think that that’s very intimidating.’
The furor began when Carter shared photos of herself at the February 6 game against the Kentucky Wildcats.
She was wearing the tight pink leather pants paired with a white turtleneck, clear heels, and a pink breast cancer awareness pin at her chest.
Some fans were quick to ask if the outfit was ‘appropriate’ for the court.
‘Is this outfit appropriate as a basketball coach?’ Wayne Walker wrote on Facebook alongside photos of Carter’s look.
‘I’m not feeling it at all if she is coaching basketball. Looks like club gear and you want to be taken seriously,’ another person weighed in.
One fan called the get-up ‘inappropriate period,’ saying ‘she should get ticket/fine whatever.’
‘Why would u dress in pants that tight to coach?’ asked @PiEzEyTheOne.
Others voiced concern over whether stilettos could damage the wooden basketball courts.
But some were supportive of Carter and her freedom to wear what she chooses - and slammed her critics as sexist.
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Carter, pictured, played for the Aggies between 2008 and 2012 and was a three-time team captain. She was selected 27th overall in the WNBA draft to the Chicago Sky, where she played for four years. For seven years subsequently, she played countries such as Latvia and Israel internationally, becoming a three-time Latvian/Estonian Champion and winning an Eastern European League Championship in 2016