Posted on 06/13/2019 10:13:45 PM PDT by MtnClimber
More 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.”
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These communist/elitist sports figures really make me hope they lose and have a short life prior to hell.
Angry lesbian upset with oppression, and stuff
She was “very much inspired” by Colin Kaepernick and his protest of racial injustice and police brutality.
How does it feel to know you were had?
Your spokesman left the building once he got his lotto ticket verified and cashed the check...
As a sports idol, she has no clue what inequality is actually like. Those of us who do take our issues with stride and we deal with them like adults, not whiners. Well, those of us who are responsible, anyway.
If she ACTUALLY cared so much about it - she wouldn’t be on the team, representing the Evil Satan United States.
But she luvs dat monay and fame and powa - just like that idiot Kapernick.
They want all the rewards the US offers and none of the responsibilities.
“If she ACTUALLY cared so much about it - she wouldn’t be on the team, representing the Evil Satan United States.”
Exactly that.
I would love to send her to Saudi Arabia for a few years.
This lesbian isn’t aging well so she needs to do something like this to keep the attention from other lesbos.
I hate that anyone defends this nation on her behalf. I would be fine if we handed her over to muslim extremists.
bttt
Translation: She’s a crazy left-wing b*tch with Trump Derangement Syndrome.
That explains it.
This uproar about the National anthem bothered me enough to write the below essay to clarify my thinking.
The Star-Spangled Banner provides the majestic musical/visual symbol of the Constitution I swore to support and defend as a Navy officer. My indefinitely binding oath requires standing for the National Anthem and kneeling to pray for the country. Veterans understand grievances can only be settled through revering our nation and protecting the freedoms they enjoy.
Kneeling when the National Anthem plays means disparaging the essence of America. We do not suffer injustices that would demand the offensive behavior endorsed by the NFL, ESPN, and Nike.
I am aware that when Armed Forces members make the ultimate sacrifice, they are wrapped in the Star-Spangled Banner for a traditional remembrance of freedoms found throughout our unique Republic. When America’s fallen arrive at Dover Air Force Base from the Middle East, their caskets are covered with a Star-Spangled Banner. When they are buried the flag is removed, elegantly folded, and given to a spouse, child, sibling, or parent.
I am aware that since the founding of the colonies and for all time the Constitution defines Americans as individuals who find their identity in pre-existing, natural, intangible rights, and not in ethnic or racial heritage, and certainly not in the acquisition of things, or accumulation of sympathies for dilutional expressions of wounded virtue.
The country does not suffer a burden of social injustice prescribing kneeling for the National Anthem. Instead the country malingers under the burden of virulent mythologies producing urban black cultures where criminality is rampant and even excused. These cultures erase role models like Booker T. Washington and Fredrick Douglas. These men promoted cohesive families, education, entrepreneurship, and marketable skills as strongholds of competence for building individual character, and for enjoying and promoting personal freedom. If similar role models exist today, they have been effectively marginalized in these spiritually impoverished communities.
Previously success for all was defined in terms of marriage, families, careers, trade skills, etc. People stayed focused on freedom as they moved through and around the issues now termed insurmountable barriers to social justice. They moved past immediate frustrations seeking to entangle them and chose instead to hold fast the promise that all are granted an equal opportunity to proper.
Quang Nguyen who escaped from Vietnam and founded Caddis Branding Agency said, “In 1982, I stood with a thousand new immigrants, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and listening to the National Anthem for the first time as an American. To this day, I can’t remember anything sweeter and more patriotic than that moment in my life…..You see, America is not just a place on the map, it isn’t just a physical location. It is an ideal, a concept. And if you are an American, you must understand the concept, you must accept this concept, and most importantly, you have to fight and defend this concept. This is about Freedom and not free stuff. And that is why I am standing up here.”
The precedented achievements of Vietnamese were preceded by those of Irish, Germans, Italians, Chinese, and Japanese decent. Focusing on possibilities for success because of freedom allowed them to avoid the paranoid reactions that would lead to criminality and victimhood. Kneeling at playing of the National Anthem, leads to embracing the cultural deformities arising from multi-generational broken families begetting broken individuals.
In a new world view, success becomes defined around manipulating people into codependent relationships. A fashionable consensus defines success as one group adjusting their behavior to validate the emotional damage others have decided to inflict upon themselves for unending perceived slights. The instigators reside as fragments of a swarm and trade adulthood and dignity for prestige without accomplishments. The subservient parties receive effortless addictive compassion as the drug of choice. This novel moral superiority only requires fabricating disgust for themselves and for this country. Both parties then shelter within a joyous cacophony of mutually supportive orations validating the miseries of their own making. I see both parties as feckless and their presumed causes as squalid and frivolous.
This theater of dilutional relationships proves not only personally futile but provides the opportunity for politicians become patricians to accumulate a useful constituency. As these acolytes and petty bureaucrats shout that there ought to be a law, a political class found at all levels of government stands ready to offer enchanting administrative laws and rules.
Supposedly these initiatives enable equal security and outcomes for all. However, these actions inject patricians and their mandarins with ever greater powers to compel obedience from citizens and receive the sensual gratification derived from the opportunity to control and order everyone and everything. Now they only need care for the self-proclaimed faction leaders who join a cabal for domination. Individuals then confronts ever narrowing boundaries for exercising inherent needs for independence and mutually agreed voluntary cooperation.
I will always reject these political charades and remain impassioned when considering the founding of our country. The Constitutional Convention members in their spirited debates maintained a devotion to first principles and avoided the avarice and duplicity expected of a political class. In just 114 days they produced a document forwarded to the Continental Congress and states for ratification. The Constitution was a perfection of human wisdom seldom achieved; a miraculous achievement celebrated when standing for the National Anthem.
I will always choose success through the hazards and uncertainties of personal freedom over Faustian like bargains exchanging the essence of the human spirit for illusions of government benevolence. This country needs “a new birth of freedom” if we are to keep faith with the Constitution as the embodiment of the American ideal. Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the blood stream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same”. Now it is our turn.
Partial Bibliography:
The Life and Times of Fredrick Douglass by Fredrick Douglass
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
The Liberal Mind by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D.
ESPN president wants less politics at network: ‘It is not our jobs’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/espn-president-wants-less-politics-at-network-it-is-not-our-jobs-to-cover-politics/2018/08/17/6d54c706-a252-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html?utm_term=.dfaa5f77d48a
Colin Kaepernick’s Nike Campaign Keeps N.F.L. Anthem Kneeling in Spotlight
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/sports/kaepernick-nike.html
Meaning of the Folding of the American flag
https://www.truthorfiction.com/foldsoftheflag/
Conservative Black American Role Models Are Being Erased from History
https://therevolutionaryact.com/best-black-american-role-models-erased/
Quang Nguyen Director/Founder Caddis Branding Agency
http://caddisad.com/
Vietnam Veterans Appreciation Speech
http://www.armsmart.com/includes/emails/Quang_Nguyen.html
The Case Against Liberal Compassion
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What the Jussie Smollett Story Reveals
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The History and Danger of Administrative Law
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Constitution Society: John Locke CHAP. V Of Property.
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Property by James Madison
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I don’t know why the players would be singing it anyway.
They never seem to bother to clearly explain it. I have my suspicions................
oops that maybe Getty - maybe someone can find another pic of this anti-American freak
I guess I just won’t watch anti-American lesbos.
But this Kapernick stuff, I now have no interest in them. This demanding equal pay instead of pay along the lines of the revenue women's soccer generates ... Sorry girls, I'll follow some other country if I even bother to follow at all.
Be grateful you were raised in a country where what you have is possible. Be grateful that generations before slowly but surely, and frankly without the help of government (if you look at trendlines, even the Civil Rights act didn't blip the the already-going-up line on minorities catching up) ... have been solving the so called 'injustice' issues simply as a moral people. Not to mention the same government forces that claim credit for their advance yet had nothing to do with that advancement, have given birth to a generation of fatherless kids and welfare dependent mothers and families. That is, when they WERE even giving birth after getting pregnant.
My God that age group, at least when it comes to those trying to make themselves a media phenom ... are filled with ungrateful simpleton trophy entitled fools. Actually they are not the only age group.
(Also that generation has a lot of great people like all generations ... I am happy to work with many of them ... I think what we get to see in media is basically liberalism on supid-steroids and God knows they don't need stupid-steroids to enhance the stupid.)
End of rant.
There is almost nothing as boring and stupid as women’s sports.
“Naturally, it also became a subject of misinformation and misunderstanding among casual fans who weren’t familiar with Rapinoe’s activism.”
WTH Yahoo?? I understand perfect. This ugly ungrateful bitch needs to go live somewhere else.
Thank You.
Bookmark to finish later and search and learn more.
Thank you for your service as well.
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