Candace Owens calls Megan Rapinoe 'Anti-American' after USWNT loss in Tokyo 2020 semi-final

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The U.S. Women's National Team star is among several soccer players who have kneeled before kickoff at Tokyo 2020 matches in a protest against racism and inequality.

Megan Rapinoe and other members of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team as well as a referee kneeling before kickoff at a match between the U.S. and New Zealand on July 24, 2021 at Tokyo 2020.Rapinoe is among several soccer players from different countries who have kneeled before kickoff at Tokyo 2020 matches as a gesture of solidarity against racism and inequality.

"We have people from Team USA, from all over the country, from all backgrounds, and people literally from all over the world for every other team so I obviously encourage everyone to use that platform to the best of their ability to do the most good that they possibly can in the world, especially as all eyes are on Tokyo these next couple weeks," Rapinoe stated at the time.

 

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RealCandaceO is just a tool of the right.

😂😂😂😂

Now we can bloviate for forty years of 'the miracle on the field'

Because individuals acting free and not assimilating is anti American!

Who cares? Please show me in the constitution where it says I'm not allowed to kneel? Please show me where the troops demanded we stand. They didn't. The GOP loves freedom so much, yet they hate when others express their freedoms

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