Posted on 07/01/2020 6:54:46 AM PDT by C19fan
The return of the National Womens Soccer League brought a tidal wave of player protests against racial injustice last weekend, with an overwhelming majority of players kneeling during the national anthem. One of the most powerful images came when Chicago Red Stars players Casey Short and Julie Ertz knelt together, with Ertz holding Short in an emotional embrace. Photos of the moment documented another member of the Red Stars putting her hand on Short, but notably declining to kneel with the rest of her entire team. That player, forward Rachel Hill, took to Twitter on Tuesday to explain her decision, which she said did not come easily or without profound thought. In a lengthy statement, Hill said she supported the message of the protests, but cited the military members of her family as why she chose to not kneel. She also mentioned having genuine conversations with Short and Ertz before and after the game.
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Free People Stand and Subjects Kneel
Julie Ertz has such a hard life. She plays a game for money.
Her husband plays a game for a lot more money.
I’m sure there are tons of under privileged Blacks in their neighborhood.
I remember when soccer was a game that was played with a ball.
What is a “genuine” conversation?
What “racial inequality”?
Funny how when Kaepernick first kneeled, he was compared to this guy. Now there's been a complete 180, now it's people who don't kneel who are like this guy.
Time and time again, that's the way these things go.
Backlash.
Has she found a noose in her locker yet?
Black Lives Matter to be painted on NBA courts this season. I bet that goes over like a lead ballon.
There was the national cornhole challenge on ESPN the other day.
I would watch a marathon of that crap before watching 30 seconds of Women’s Soccer.
They could give out the winning numbers of Mega Millions, live before the drawing. No one would win.
Grandstands containing nothing but “woke” people will be great for profits.
who was even watching this before the Wuhan flu?
Short easy answer. Stop playing the National Anthem of the United States of America at ANY professional sports event.
Much of the fan base is considering taking their support away anyway, this just gives them yet another reason to head for the exits early.
You can ONLY be brave and independent if you behave sheeplike with the crowd parroting a fashionable cause.
Embracing violates social distancing rules for COVID. Where are the people screaming that these women were putting old people at-risk and were being selfish by hugging?
That’s how the Nazi’s started, saluting with the Nazi Party was a social cause celeb in Germany that people willing posed in with the goal of acceptance.
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