I wonder if we'll need a separate thread about the Olympics. I sure hope not. But...
The women's 3rd place hammer thrower said, "I was irritated, to be honest," that the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials yesterday in Eugene, OR, didn't cancel the National Anthem.
"I was thinking about what I should do," said Gwen Berry. "Eventually I stayed there and I swayed, I put my shirt over my head. It was real disrespectful."
To be clear, what she thinks was disrespectful was the playing of the National Anthem. Not her turning her back to the flag and putting a black T-shirt over her head. That was what she decided was the proper way for her to respond. The women taking the podium were handed a small bouquet of flowers and a small U.S. flag. Berry refused the to take a flag.
"The anthem doesn't speak for me. It never has. My purpose and my mission is bigger than sports," she continued. "I'm here to represent those ... who died due to systemic racism. That's the important part. That's why I'm going. That's why I'm here today."
Funny that U.S. Olympic Committee who gets all its funding from the tax payers and from tax-payer donations--and, heck, all the rest of us and the rest of the world, for that matter--thought that you were going to Tokyo to compete as a member of Team USA. Not Team Gwendolyn Berry.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/message- ... ing-anthem
A July 2 update to the Gwen Berry story:
Olympian Gwen Berry's problematic tweets unearthed amid anthem uproar
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/olympian ... hem-uproar
This lovely human who is slated--as of now--to represent the United States of America at the Olympics in Japan, in past tweets made jokes about gang rape, mocked Mexicans, Asians, and white people, and said she would like to stomp a "lil white boy."
But
none of that is racist, of course.
Her demonstration led to calls from conservative voices for her to step aside. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., have been among the loudest voices.
I would very much like to see her removed from the U.S. Team.
