Megan Rapinoe: “I’m not going to the fukking White House” if USWNT wins 2019 FIFA World Cup

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Rapinoe is a real one (And a great player to boot). Nothing but respect for her.

fukk Trump for life, but he's probably brought up black players/issues because she's still protesting the anthem (And he's already addressed it). I don't think it was necessarily random considering their little ongoing feud.

Here’s Why Megan Rapinoe Is Protesting During The National Anthem At The World Cup

But she explained her reasons in a 2016 essay that she penned for The Players’ Tribune, after causing controversy for taking a knee before national team games in solidarity with former NFL star Colin Kaepernick.

Kaepernick, a former San Francisco 49er, sparked a national movement in 2016 with his kneeling protest before NFL games against racial injustice and police brutality. It even invoked the ire of President Donald Trump.

The U.S. Soccer Federation later amended its regulations to require all players “stand respectfully” when the anthem is played before games.

Rapinoe has so far adhered to those updated rules during the ongoing tournament but noticeably doesn’t put her hand over her heart as others do.

“I haven’t experienced over-policing, racial profiling, police brutality or the sight of a family member’s body lying dead in the street. But I cannot stand idly by while there are people in this country who have had to deal with that kind of heartache,” Rapinoe wrote in 2016.

“There is no perfect way to protest,” she said. “I know that nothing I do will take away the pain of those families. But I feel in my heart it is right to continue to kneel during the national anthem, and I will do whatever I can to be part of the solution.”
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Donald Trump Reacts To Megan Rapinoe’s National Anthem Protest At World Cup

Trump told The Hill that he didn’t think the star’s national anthem protests on the global stage were appropriate.

“No, I don’t think so,” the president said when asked.

Given his vehement reaction to the wave of NFL demonstrations during the national anthem that began after Colin Kaepernick first took a knee in 2016, Trump’s reaction wasn’t really a surprise.

Rapinoe’s protest during the World Cup has not been as overt as in the past, when she knelt during “The Star-Spangled Banner” in solidarity with other athletes to call attention to racial injustice and police brutality.

In France, she has stood at attention, hands at her side, but without singing and placing her hand over her heart as many of her teammates do.

Rapinoe, who is openly gay, deemed herself a “walking protest” in a May interview. She has called Trump “misogynistic” and “small-minded.”
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It might not look like much, but she's playing for the country, she's a co-captain, and she's doing this during one of the ONLY times women soccer players get any publicity...so she's legit sacrificing and I like her.
 
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