Posted on 10/12/2020 5:35:02 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
USMNT midfielder Weston McKennie has said he represents a country that "possibly doesn't even accept me just for the color of my skin."
McKennie paid tribute to George Floyd during a Bundesliga match for former club Schalke as he wore an armband with the words "Justice For George." Floyd, who was Black, died in police custody in Minnesota in May after a white police officer kneeled on his neck for more than seven minutes. The killing sparked Black Lives Matter protests in cities across the United States.
"This year, at the beginning of the season, we played and the fans after the game were making monkey noises at me," McKennie said in a video produced by Adidas. "It's devastating.
"I went back home to Dallas and I'm afraid to drive at night just because I don't know what's going to happen if I get pulled over. I'm representing a country that possibly doesn't even accept me just for the color of my skin.
"It's definitely a bit heartbreaking. When I wore the armband, I felt it was a duty and a responsibility: one being American and two being a Black American. I just felt a need to bring awareness overseas. I got a lot of support from it. I also got hate from it.
"A person lost their life, I'm not going to shut up and dribble. I'm not going to make my opinions small just because people believe that I should just play soccer.
"I don't want to be just known as a great soccer player. I want to be known as a great human being, as a great person and that is what I am starting to try and do; to create my legacy. This version of me that I love."
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But they might accept him for the content of his character................ That is more important.
Yeah? Still needs a giant slap to the head and dressed down as a moron....as do the people who put this tripe into the head of this individual.
Sickening, gak.
Where did this “monkey noises” offense happen? Europe? I can’t imagine anything like that happening in the USA, and if I heard something like that, I wouldn’t be able to stand by and ignore it.
Yes. Europe. The same Europe that claim we are the racists.
Utter bullshite, plus he's not representing any country as fall as I could tell from the article.
Also, George Floyd didn't die because he was held down; he died because he had a belly full of drugs which caused some sort of heart failure. He did NOT die from asphyxiation.
Well, here is another brand I'm for shunning. Adidas is woke, oh how nice!
USMNT, I had to look it up. It’s professional soccer.
No further comment necessary.
He is free to leave at any time and never come back. Maybe he would feel safer in the Congo or Nigeria.
Nah he needs to STFU or have sense knocked into him by walking through brownsville, Brooklyn at 3am.
I dated a gal over there for a few years.
A Puerto Rican gal. Crimes and cops constantly.
I’ll be glad to drive him and we can hang out against my car for a few hours listening to music from 3 to 5am.
He won’t last a half hour before crying like a b.tch to be taken away from there.
I used to love blasting Italian Opera when I was waiting for the gal to come down :)
Got a kick out of the confused looks on the Bloods’ faces.
This punk..they’ll eat him ailve.
Invite him to come down here to the feared South. We have black police officers and sheriff’s, we have towns and cities in which blacks are city councilors and mayors, we have many black judges, we have all black colleges, and on and on. He has nothing to fear but fear itself. (thank you Mr. Churchill)
FDR
Wasn’t that the Dem politician FDR? 😉
Well, then stay where you are. We have enough idiots here already.
I doubt this crap would go on from the US Rugby team. If you are good, you play. People accept you. If you suck, you can carry the water.
Easy peasy.
Soccer players seem feminine.
thanks - memory fades with age
ESPN = Democrat scum.
Leftist all need real mental help
Stronger than all their enemies yet crave that victim status
Judging by the Woke nonsense in the NBA, NFL, and professional Baseball it appears that is a character flaw shared universally with professional atheletes
Sounds like he hit one too many headers towards the net.
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