DiJonai Carrington’s clarification of her “White Privilege” post has done little to cool things down. Replying to a fan’s post about the Chicago Sky guard’s comments, Emmanuel Acho pushed back hard, framing her explanation as an accusation lobbed out with nothing behind it. The former NFL star made clear he wasn’t buying the walk-back.

“Respectfully, the problem with Dijonai’s tweet is that nothing about it was clear,” Emmanuel Acho posted on X after the WNBA player responded.

“If we’re ignoring the obvious context of her ejection, “White privilege” becomes an explosive accusation with no context. White privilege is a real thing; it’s not a claim you can ambiguously make. If your assertion is that her tweet was about racial bias within officiating of a billion-dollar sports league, that’s an even MORE damning accusation.”

The whole controversy started when the Indiana Fever clashed with the Chicago Sky on Saturday. In the very first quarter, Fever forward Sophie Cunningham went for a layup on a fast break. But when she was airborne and the ball was already out of her hand, Carrington’s left hand struck her face and neck. The officials had initially flagged the foul as a Flagrant 1 but took a second look at the tape and changed their mind, labeling the foul as a Flagrant 2 (excessive and unnecessary). Carrington got ejected from the game instantly, and it got even worse from there.

Within minutes, Carrington posted “white privilege” in Threads from the locker room, calling out Indiana Fever for her ejection as if it had something to do with race rather than the foul. That post didn’t go over well. Several sports analysts weighed in, and former NFL star Emmanuel Acho didn’t hold back.

“It was not a race-based decision,” Acho said on the Speakeasy podcast. “To call that a white privilege-based foul is to completely undermine the term of white privilege and to also completely ignore the rules in basketball.

“You hit her in the head. You drew blood. You didn’t connect with the ball at all whatsoever. So to me, it was just very ignorant and, to some degree, asinine by DiJonai Carrington to suggest that that call was based on white privilege.”

Carrington eventually responded on X, though she still hasn’t really spelled out what she meant by the original post.

“I’ve never once claimed that the assessment of the foul was white privilege [that was your assumption],” her reply read on X. “Try exercising your critical thinking skills, I know you studied psych. Furthermore, I’m the last thing from ignorant or asinine when it comes to speaking on ‘white privilege’, do ya research on that one.

“I actually went to school, one of the top universities might I add, to educate myself on this exact subject. I would never use that term as a rhetorical weapon knowing the historical and social weight it holds without having the proper evidence to substantiate it.”

Meanwhile, the WNBA has fined Carrington $1000 for her flagrant 2 foul and might look into her social media conduct. With her Threads account now set to private, Carrington seems to be laying low while the situation plays out.