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Any surprise she hates America? It "suddenly" all started happening in 2016. She claims that is all began with the the protests of the half White millionaire QB Colin Kaepernick. She says she protesting "inequality and injustice". That's a load of crap! She come right out and says: "I haven't experienced police brutality, or racism," OK, then what is her protest relly about? She keeps her reason veiled only enough to play SJW and not make it overtly political, but it's obvious she's pissed because Hillary lost and she hates America for it. "It’s inequality and injustice she has been aware of for years now, even as she proudly sang the anthem prior to the summer of 2016. But that summer, she had what she calls an “awakening.” She was “very much inspired” by Colin Kaepernick and his protest of racial injustice and police brutality."Bull! This has nothing to do with Kaepernick. He started his freakshow in the Fall of '16. What else happened about then? "Around that time, “the whole meaning of the anthem changed dramatically for me,” Rapinoe told Yahoo Sports. And she came to a realization: “I need to do something.”Yes, that's when her TDS began and it is eating her up. Poor thing. Why USWNT star Megan Rapinoe doesn't sing the national anthem
Henry BushnellYahoo SportsJun 13, 2019, 5:15 PM REIMS, FRANCE - JUNE 11: Megan Rapinoe of United States getting into the field during the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup France group F match between USA and Thailand at Stade Auguste Delaune on June 11, 2019 in Reims, France. (Photo by Marcio Machado/Getty Images)
Megan Rapinoe doesn’t sing the national anthem. This, to followers of soccer, is not news. Rapinoe hasn’t belted out the “Star Spangled Banner” since 2016. She no longer puts her hand over her heart. As she told Yahoo Sports last month, she probably never will again.
But with the U.S. women’s national team kicking off its 2019 World Cup campaign on Tuesday, and Rapinoe captaining the squad, her unflinching face and pursed lips became a story.
Naturally, it also became a subject of misinformation and misunderstanding among casual fans who weren’t familiar with Rapinoe’s activism.
She has been very clear about her reasons for not singing, though. The 33-year-old winger explained them at length in an in-depth Yahoo Sports feature published in May.
Rapinoe’s reasons for not singing national anthem
For Rapinoe, the anthem is a “somber moment” for a “peaceful protest” of inequality and injustice throughout the United States.
It’s inequality and injustice she has been aware of for years now, even as she proudly sang the anthem prior to the summer of 2016. But that summer, she had what she calls an “awakening.” She was “very much inspired” by Colin Kaepernick and his protest of racial injustice and police brutality.
Around that time, “the whole meaning of the anthem changed dramatically for me,” Rapinoe told Yahoo Sports. And she came to a realization: “I need to do something.”
So, days after Kaepernick first dropped to a knee, Rapinoe did as well.
After she knelt during the anthem at a national team game for the first time, U.S. Soccer released a statement condemning her actions. The statement called the playing of the anthem “an opportunity … to reflect upon the liberties and freedom we all appreciate in this country.”
But Rapinoe’s point is precisely that we don’t all appreciate those freedoms. Many minorities and members of marginalized groups don’t.
As she wrote weeks after she first knelt, her protest was about "over-policing" and "racial profiling," about "ensur[ing] that freedom is afforded to everyone in this country."
Her choice to not sing the anthem is essentially an extension of that. U.S. Soccer eventually adopted a rule prohibiting players from kneeling before national team games. Rapinoe, who calls the rule “cowardly” and “backwards,” now clasps her hands behind her back and stares straight ahead, expressionless, instead.
"I haven't experienced police brutality, or racism, in that way," she told Yahoo Sports of the inspiration for her protests. "But knowing that it obviously happens, and knowing that it's a very real thing, and that there's something I can do to lend to that movement, or lend to those voices, or to support them, that's important. You don't have to understand everything fully in a personal way. That's impossible. But that doesn't mean it's not the right thing. It doesn't mean that you can't believe what people are saying."
Rapinoe believes them, and believes many problems at the crux of Kaepernick’s protest remain unsolved. Which is why she no longer sings.
Back in October, during our first interview for the feature, I asked her what, if anything, could compel her to sing again.
"It would take a lot," she responded. "It would take criminal justice reform. It would take the huge inequality gap that we have to be much better. It would take a lot of progress in LGBTQ rights. We just have such a disparity in this country in so many different ways, inequality in so many different ways."
And that is why, as she told Yahoo Sports: "I'll probably never put my hand over my heart. I'll probably never sing the national anthem again."
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If they detest the place that much they should leave.
Congo would be nice for them.
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Let her stay in France or somewhere else If she does not like it here.
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What a narcissist. Someone should inform her she has bigger problems. Like mental illness!
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She's there to represent her country in a sporting event. If she wants it to be all about her, she should probably pay her own way and not accept either a salary or expenses in order to travel the world.
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They shouldn’t let her play
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I hear the Thailand Women's Soccer team could use some help.
Send her there.
How fuggin' stupid is it to disrespect the country you are representing?
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Seems quitting the team would be the most "honest" way for her to "protest"!
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Someone refuse to make her a cake or sump'n?
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Seems quitting the team would be the most "honest" way for her to "protest"!
Mike Holmes Her agenda and honesty are mutually exclusive.
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It's amazing how not having male gonads can make some ugly women so bitter.
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I hear the Dominican Republic is lovely!
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Another role model guiding a generation of teenage girls down paths of unhappiness and confusion.
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evidently the vast majority of women soccer players are dykes
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It all starts when parents let their daughters sign up for high school basketball aka dyke indoctrination training camp
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It all starts when parents let their daughters sign up for high school basketball aka dyke indoctrination training camp
Let us not forget the internet.
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Hatari: Decades ago I decided to ignore the homosexuals as best I could. I don't seek them out for advice of any kind, I don't associate with them, I don't vote for them, I don't counsel them - I just do my best to ignore them but keep a wary and knowing eye on them and the harms they can do. This twit/twat is nothing more than an anti-American, anti-traditional values bull dagger, chump/chimmp with a huge chip on her shoulder! Her views (and her!) mean nothing to me. I do agree with you though, she does come off as an "angry dyke". She is her own punishment - ignore her. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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Amen to that, Varmint Guy......... And if she's that upset about having to live in such a bigoted, racist, country then the best thing for her is that she's free to move to some other country that shares her views and values. AKA GTFO.
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Easy answer. Stay the phugk out.
She can suck my balls.. right after I cut the grass.
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