The Olympic gold medalist and world champion soccer player made the gesture in Chicago in support of San Francisco 49ers football player Colin Kaepernick, who set off a national firestorm over his sitting out the national anthem and later taking a knee to protest racism in the United States. And Rapinoe told ESPN that she only wants to see the country improve: “We are not saying we are not one the greatest countries in world”. In fact, the hashtag #VeteransForKaepernick emerged in response to accusations that Kaepernick was doing so, and it’s exactly what it sounds like: military vets rallying behind Kaepernick’s quest to advocate for a more equitable society online.
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Unless you don’t watch the news, you have heard the San Francisco 49’er quarterback Colin Kaepernick has refused to stand for the national anthem.
“I don’t think that’s where he’s going with it”, Altidore added. Megan Rapinoe, the person, is a gay athlete. This is also contingent on whether Rapinoe is named to the roster for the match against Thailand. “Colin Kaepernick has started this movement and people are following suit and supporting him”. “I’d love for him to carry the ball quite a bit in this game, and then we’ll know where we stand going into the next week”, he said. I come from a different perspective. As a gay person, she has a lived experience in this country that a straight person does not have. That’s true of most people.
LGBT organizations need to take a page out of Rapinoe’s book. “I am disgusted with the way he has been treated and the fans and hatred he has received in all of this”, Rapinoe said in an interview with espnW’s Julie Foudy.
Ila Chaidez, 58, sat nearby with her husband.
A member of the 2015 World Cup-winning US women’s soccer team is standing, or rather kneeling, in support of Colin Kaepernick.
This is one of the first things you learn in any identity-based class. Can’t she just play soccer? But after hearing what happened during Sunday’s game, she was disappointed.
“I haven’t thought about that”, Lane said.
Rapinoe plays for the Seattle Reign in the National Women’s Soccer League.
“She’s kneeling. She’s not crossing her hand over her heart”. ‘How appalling! She should have stood like everyone else out of respect’.
“We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country”, Rapinoe continued.
“It’s the least I can do”. “My dad used to say, ‘I may disagree with everything you say, but I’ll fight to the death for your right to say it.’ Mr. Kaepernick has every right to be wrong _ but he’s completely in the wrong”. “I think there is a long history of athletes doing so”. And that’s something that needs to change.
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Yes, she later told reporters, his was an intentional move. You will find that, along with being a songwriter, he was also a slave owner and a racist.
