When it comes to joking about skin color, basketball culture seems to have its own set of rules. Or at least it once did. Nowadays, of course, race-mongers have turned skin color into the ultimate grift, calling out racism where it does not exist and demanding slavery reparations for an injury no living person has ever sustained, inflicted by generations long dead. So we all feel exhausted and could use less commentary on meaningless physical differences, even in a historically benign context. In the wake of Iowa Hawkeyes superstar guard Caitlin Clark’s dominant performance on Monday night, le…
