Posted on 08/03/2021 8:16:50 AM PDT by KevinB
Gwen Berry failed to medal during the women’s hammer throw finals on Tuesday. Berry finished in eleventh place out of twelve competitors, registering a distance of 71.35 meters.
The 32-year-old caused a stir during the medal ceremony at the Olympic trials in June. After winning a bronze medal during the event, Berry faced the stands rather than the American flag, holding up a shirt that read “Activist Athlete.”
Afterward, Berry said she was “pissed” that “The Star-Spangled Banner” played during the celebration.
“If you know your history, you know the full song of the national anthem,” Berry said on Black News Channel. “The third paragraph speaks to slaves in America — our blood being slain … all over the floor.”
In July, before the Olympics commenced, Berry pledged to “represent the oppressed people” should she win a medal in Tokyo, adding, “that’s been my message for the last three years.”
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Yeah, for Communists.
It’s talking about the ‘HAMMER OF COMMUNISM’.
written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays, COMMUNISTS.............................
Darn, I was hoping she would place dead last.
GREAT NEWS!!!!
LET THE ROCKFISH SWIM HOME.
I couldn’t feel bad about that if my live depended on it😄
First Rapinoe, then Cuomo and now this-—about a minute of peace found today! Thank you God!
Now if lightning could strike the capital building-——BLISS!
It is sad that although there are a handful of protestors among the Olympic athletes, they garner such disproportionate attention from the media.
Most are just hard working athletes who have excelled, and most love the country they represent. Most American athletes certainly do.
Screw these dirty rotten SOB’s! I’m way beyond the “I disagree with what you say, but will defend to my death your right to say it!” CRAP.
You OWE American loyalty. If you don’t have the common sense, decency, or stones to believe that; get your behind out of the USA.
He hit the George Floyd graffiti mural so there is that.
Boy, does she NOT know her history!
That the British were inciting slaves and mercenaries to fight and burn with British troops (hence the reference to hirelings and slaves) - in return for promises of future English citizenship.
That some slaves did rise up in support of the British burning towns and farms along the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic coast…….but many did not.
That one slave , Frederick Hall, whose Maryland plantation was burned by the British fled to Baltimore, too the name William Williams, and joined the militia there to fight for American freedom from English colonialism, that he was one of the 4 men who were killed at the Battle of Ft McHenry.
https://www.nps.gov/fomc/learn/historyculture/william-williams.htm
Schadenfreude redux!
Yet this woman has gotten more publicity than almost anyone else.
Stop writing about her! Write about the winners!!!
Now if the “women’s” soccer team will lose in the bronze medal round….
I haven’t watched a single Olympics event this time around, but I still can’t recall ever having cheered this much as a reaction to American defeats.
We’ve come a long way from “The Miracle On Ice”, haven’t we?
In today's world, I guess this is a success.
It’s called a distraction...and focus as you will...it disturbs your concentration.
If I had a hammer...
...and you had a sickle...
“Screw these dirty rotten SOB’s! I’m way beyond the “I disagree with what you say, but will defend to my death your right to say it!” CRAP.
You OWE American loyalty. If you don’t have the common sense, decency, or stones to believe that; get your behind out of the USA.”
Well said! Dittos!
As many of us predicted, nothing was really done to prevent the acting up of the wokeasters at the Olympics. Future Olympiads will only be worse.
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