Alveda King slams USA Today columnist for invoking Emmett Till in Caitlin Clark piece: 'Pure race-baiting'

Fox News contributor Tyrus blasts a USA Today columnist's article on WNBA star Caitlin Clark, calling it 'racist' and 'disrespectful' after it drew a controversial comparison between Clark and Emmett Till on ‘America Reports.’

At her age, race activist Alveda King wasn't the least bit surprised by the Caitlin Clark opinion piece penned this week by USA Today sports columnist Nancy Armour.

"I've seen every kind of race-baiting that you can imagine. I'm 75 years old," the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told OutKick on Friday. Armour's column relating the murder of Emmett Till to Caitlin Clark putting black and lesbian WNBA players in physical danger didn't come as a shock to a woman who has seen so much over her lifetime.

President Donald Trump responds to Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during a meeting with inner city pastors at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 1, 2018. Trump delivered remarks at the roundtable discussion and discussed the administration's efforts on prison reform and other policy initiatives to improve conditions in inner cities. (AFP via Getty Images)

King, a Fox News contributor, says this playbook by the left-wing media is all too predictable.

"What people have learned to do, is to throw out inflammatory, emotional phrases that will make people emotional and forget how to think. There was no reason to throw Emmett Till's name out there. And so, that's called race-baiting," she continued.

King's advice to Americans is simple: Don't be "misled by emotional turmoil without examining the facts."

What are the facts here?

NANCY ARMOUR'S DISASTROUS CAITLIN CLARK ARTICLE EXEMPLIFIES WHY SPORTSWRITING AND SPORTS MEDIA IS FAILING

As OutKick's Dan Zaksheske has written