On Aug. 1, HBO Sports will air “Seeing America with Megan Rapinoe,” a conversation featuring Rapinoe, the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team captain, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones, and comedian Hasan Minhaj.
Rapinoe, who first knelt during the national anthem in September 2016 as a “nod to [Colin] Kaepernick,” told Yahoo Sports in May 2019, “I’ll probably never put my hand over my heart. I’ll probably never sing the national anthem again.” Describing herself as “a walking protest when it comes to the Trump administration,” because of “everything I stand for,” she told Yahoo, “So it’s kind of a good ‘F you’ to any sort of inequality or bad sentiments that the [Trump] administration might have towards people who don’t look exactly like him. Which, God help us if we all looked like him. Scary. Really scary. Ahh, disturbing.”
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