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Players for No. 1 South Carolina women's basketball team sit during anthem
wyff4.com ^
| 11/25/20
| AP
Posted on 11/26/2020 6:51:54 PM PST by Midwesterner53
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Ten players for No. 1 South Carolina remained seated during the national anthem before their season opener with College of Charleston on Wednesday.
Only junior forward Elysa Wesolek stood during the anthem. Coach Dawn Staley and her staff also stood.
Advertisement The team posted a statement on Twitter saying that many of them did not stand “to shine a light on the need for racial equality, social justice and ending systemic racism in our country.”
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To: Flavious_Maximus
LameCocks?
Signed,
A Clemson Fan
To: TheUSConstitution matters
I learned to keep my pro-America/pro-democracy views to myself. Not sure why, but that's very hard for me to do!!
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econjack
To: PubliusMM
Give me ONE, just ONE, example of ‘systemic racism’ in America, today. Go ahead...I’ll wait...
Try being a white male kid looking for ways to pay for college.
What do I win?
To: Fred Hayek
I have concluded that women should not participate in sports. I did not hold this view in the past.
That's gonna absolutely kill the world of beach volleyball.
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