Players raise fists, take a knee prior to return match

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Players raised gloved right fists and took a knee before Major League Soccer’s first match in four months in a show of solidarity with the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement

Jul 8, 2020; Orlando, FL, Orlando, FL, USA; MLS players participate in a pre game ceremony to support equal rights and Black Lives Matter before the game between the Inter Miami and the Orlando City at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports

Some players wore t-shirts over their jerseys with the words “Black and Proud” and “Silence is Violence” before the match, and the Orlando City and Inter Miami starting line-ups took a knee just before the ‘MLS is Back’ tournament kicked off. Toronto FC’s Justin Morrow, executive director of the Black Players for Change organization, said MLS players wanted to add their voices to the movement.

“What you saw tonight was a special moment that was driven by the players, and Major League Soccer collaborated with us to make that happen.”

 

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I knew Soccer sucked. 🙄

Communists

All 144 total American fans of MLS can decide if this matters.....

So now MLSS2020 supports a Marxist organization ! Wow ... I’llnever be a fan now. fightthemob

And people watch this crap, Lol

I guess soccer is off the list now too

mranti 🙂

BLM is not a movement for black lives. It is a finance source for the Democratic Party. Politics and sports should not mix.

I never watch soccer because it is boring. Now I have one more reason not to watch.

Remember Reginald Denny, black crimes matter? Actual violence IS violence.

anyone remember the black power movement what happened to them?

Thank god!! All this v

From black people who don't follow police orders,,,

this looks familiar, i think in the 1940s they did this but with open hands and not fists.

)) Маразм крепчал и делался повальным..

WhenEnougIsntEnough AllLivesMatters not just BlackLivesMatter

Not watching.

Psyop

Look at all those oppressed rich sport stars, i really feel for them.

I last watched football in 1959. This Marxist nonsense is hardly encouragement to restart now.

I guess the MLS supports communism because that's what the movement is trying to force on everyone.

wtf?

Malditos Comunistas!

Losers.

Very cool thank you for supporting BLM

Absolutely ridiculous. Keep doing the work for communists! (Yes, you are doing the work for communists by stating your distrust for law and law enforcement in the US. Do not give communists a way to destroy democracy.)

None of them actually support it, they just don't want to be labeled racist, lose their job, their sponsors, their home, and have their lives torn apart by the mob. It's easier to kneel than to lose everything.

AFRICA....500 years of rich cultural development ie... church's urban development, science medicine, and massive stone architectures, roads sewage, water canals... demonstrates the successful rise and accomplishments Blacks achieved in Africa. thursdaymorning

What a sad thing to watch :/ It reminds me 1917 and how orginal Marxist ideology was welcomed in Europe. Nothing good can grow out of Marxism, ever

Ministry of Truth approved

booooooo!

Wellcome to the new fascism!

Trump and his cult followers must be DESTROYED without mercy. Vote November 3.

And I thought every life does matter, not only black

Id rather watch the WNBA

Pathetic!

White and proud!

If they new what the BLM manifesto is really about( taking down America) their thinking could be different

Heil ...

Looks more they forced to do it

Funny how if a bunch of white people did this it would be considered a white supremacy gesture. these days cracking one's knuckles can land you in jail for a hate crime. this is so stupid.

There was a game?

🖕🏿blm

This gesture is terribly racist! :(

They laugh & yawn. Y'all sat up & took notice when your Walgreens burned, didn't you! Keep laughing. Then cry later.

Yawn 🥱

Monkey see, monkey do.

Fisting for Soros!

Good job guys. The People aren't playing anymore.

BLM changed their name to the Bu Blux Blan.

White guilt really is something.

BLM is an anti-Semitic, marxist, racist movement. Only idiots support BLM.

another victims of brainwashing and indoctrination. How many fists have we seen since 2000? Every movement needs his fist-symbol. People wake up. I don't believe in dubious movements. Sombody will profit from those movements and crisis.

Do this bunch of ignorants at MLS know that Blklivesmatter praised Hugo Chavez socialist dictatorship?

Did the game end 0-0?

أمريكا تدعم الارهاب و الفوضى في بلاد المسلمين و بعدها تتهمهم بالارهاب هذا هو معنى النفاق و الكذب و الخيانة و الارهاب الاعلامي

So boring lmao nobody cares

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