The American women's soccer squad scored two goals to one against the host country France in today's quarter finals for the women's world cup. Megan Rapinoe scored both goals.
I don't play soccer. I have never played soccer though I played a little school ground soccer when I was in elementary school right after we moved back to the US from Germany. Having gone to a German kindergarten, I knew the rudiments of the game.
But Trump picked on Megan Rapinoe because she took up Colin Kaepernick's protest of treatment of minorities in the US. And she said flat out that she wouldn't go to the "fucking White House" for any congratulatory celebration. In the land of the free and the home of the brave, where practically on every passing truck there is a sign signalling support for the police, Kaepernick and other people in the public eye are protesting the status quo, protesting the diminution of minorities by a variety of state approved methods.Trump continues to support the other side of that equation. Just this week he said that the Central Park Five, who were not only exonerated by scientific evidence, but by testimony of the perpetrator, were still guilty in his mind. But understand that minority in the US doesn't just mean those who are in smaller numbers. Minority means those who don't have power to protect or protest. Colin Kaepernick and Megan Rapinoe are the heroes here.
You go girl!
yes! I'm so proud of her. I played soccer in school and it was draining. I don't play it or watch it much but have seen her interviews and actually waited for Dump to demean her as he does everyone who is better than him. She is courageous.
ReplyDeleteYes, she is a superstar. She even apologized to her mother for her bad language. All of us should be proud of her.
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