Mystics' Natasha Cloud says she will enter politics after basketball career

“We’re out here preparing for Connecticut, and yes, it’s our jobs, we get paid to do this, but how do you even talk about that with what’s going on in our country? This isn't even gun control, this is women's rights. This is the LGBTQ+ community. This is systemic racism. This is our prison reforms that still haven't happened. This is the foundation of America. I'm so tired of us pointing the finger at all these different countries and being like 'They suck, they suck, we're superior.' We are trash. We are actual trash.

“It’s frustrating. It really, really is. We could do everything that we can. We can utilize our platforms. We can do marches. We can try to educate people. But, if our representatives don’t do their jobs, if they don’t fulfill their oaths that they took to serve their communities, to not line their pockets, to not worry about their own power, what can we do? When you have corrupt-ass individuals in those positions of power, what do you do?

“It’s at a point now where after my career, I will go into politics because I’m tired of it. I’m tired of it being a political game. These are people’s lives. We’re constantly worrying about power, money and all this other s*** that doesn’t matter. It shouldn’t matter. We’re talking about lives. We’re talking about 10-, nine-, eight-, seven-, six-, five-year-old kids. We’re talking about elderly folks just trying to go grab groceries in the only grocery store in their community, because why? It’s a lower economic community. It’s a Black community. This was a minority school, for the most part. Took the police 90 minutes to get inside that school, it's a f***ing joke.