Posted on 06/08/2020 7:53:23 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The US Women’s National Team is demanding their employer, US Soccer, end a policy requiring players to stand during the national anthem.
“The Federation should immediately repeal the ‘Anthem Policy,’ publish a statement acknowledging the policy was wrong when it was adopted, and issue an apology to our Black players and supporters,” the national team players said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
Players called for US Soccer to “lay out its plans on how it will now support the message and movement that it tried to silence four years ago.”
US Soccer will hold a special board meeting Tuesday to discuss its anthem policy, which goes beyond even the National Football League’s rules in its attempts to limit players’ ability to protest. It requires players to “stand respectfully” during the anthem at national team games. When it passed in 2017, no board members voted against it.
The policy was created to target a single player: superstar Megan Rapinoe, who in 2016 became the first white major athlete to kneel during the anthem in solidarity with the NFL’s Colin Kaepernick.
Rapinoe, who is gay, said in 2016 that she was kneeling because she understood “what it means to look at the flag and not have it protect all of your liberties.”
“It’s important to have white people stand in support of people of color on this,” she said then.
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Stand for the national anthem or defund the team!
Ping
They are free to protest by resigning from the NATIONAL team.
I vote drop the team.
I’m going to throw up.
Woe to those who are melanin-challenged.
Everybody wants to kneel like the cop now ?
It’s not like anyone really watches the women’s team
maybe its time we outgrew idiotic sports altogether
look at the crop of morons you support directly or indirectly
the players themselves have ruined “professional” sports
maybe drain the arenas for a decade or two
put the time and money wasted on this pedantic crap into something worthwhile, like actually playing sports with your kids, or spending time with family, friends, doing projects, increasing your skills in whatever area interests you, learning something new, doing whatever you’ve kept putting off
we don’t need these people
they need US to survive
show them how truly unimportant they are
what they actually do doesn’t affect anything of consequence in the real world
and their sense of entitlement and self-importance is unwarrantedly enormous
Mr. Rapinoe has turned them into chronic whiners.
There was a time when little girls looked up to them.
Disband this Marxist political organization posing as some lame sports team. What a national disgrace.
F*** em.
I’d do that when pigs fly. I don’t take orders from radical dykes, and happen to respect and love my country. Sure, it has its faults—but it’s still a head and shoulders above any other country. Maybe Rapinoe would like to move to Saudi Arabia, and they could televise throwing her off a 20 story building.
Who dug up these harpies again?
This whole thing is getting silly. Where are the adults?
no one cares about womens sports...sorry, just the way it is...
These females are ... not essential to the health of the nation.
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