United States women's national team star Megan Rapinoe insists she and her team-mates do love their country amid controversy over the national anthem.
, insisting she had "poisoned" her team-mates against her country, but she insists that is not the case.I’ll miss being able to represent our country. I think, a lot of times, that gets lost, when people talk about me in particular:"But we do love America.
It’s just more in a James Baldwin kind of way, not in a bald-eagle-on-your-shoulder kind of way."The reference to Baldwin, who was a writer and orator during the civil rights movement, lines up with Rapinoe's own stance on many issues. She has notably taken the knee before, and has had a long-running public social media feud with former president Donald Trump,
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