Megan Rapinoe
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 8 Jun
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A little interaction. Yeah. And then, um, what was the next basically at the Olympics, we famously, you know, bonked out in a massive way. I was coming back from my ACL. So it was just the whole Olympics for us was really kind of terrible, but we got out so early and we never actually even made it to Rio. So I was like, Oh, I'm going to Rio. There was like five or six of us.
We went to a few games. We ended up, you guys had, you were staying on a cruise ship. So it was like. Different Olympic experiences.
It's a much more like enjoyable, relaxed. You're not grinding. Environment where we're like, you have one hour a day of family time. Yeah. You're like, okay. Yeah. It's like, okay. Like visitation. Yeah. Everyone being miserable. That's going to help us our performance on the field. You guys just have more. But it's weird. It's like they're not on contract like we are.
So I had been going to, yeah, I had been going to a couple of games. Obviously we all, it's like we didn't know each other, but like we're in the exact same world in life. We know the same people, like the agents, all the sort of things.
Oh yeah.
So obviously the summer of 16, it was like from a social justice like perspective. I mean, we just come off like 14 Ferguson, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, like, you know, going into 50. I feel like I was like educate myself more. The WNBA obviously is always the, the leader and in the forefront of social justice work and protests and all of that. So it's,
Summer of 16, the players from Minnesota had refused to speak to the media, worn the black shirts, etc. And kind of going into the Olympics, I slid into Sue's DMs. I do love the DMs. She does. Not in, I just, it's like the blue truck gets you far.
Yeah, like the guy who's doing our apartment right now.
Designing in New York. Like I just slide into everyone's DMs and I'm like, hi. Like you didn't ask for me, but here I am. Anyway, so I had hit her like, hey, just amazing. About social justice. Yeah, like what, you know, you guys are doing, if there's any way for our teams to partner or whatever. This was pre-kneeling. That happened sort of after we got back from the Olympics.
Just kind of, is there any way to connect or help like amplify that?
It certainly should be. Yes.
Yeah, definitely. Because I think that they were the first ones doing anything publicly protesting as an athlete kind of during that time. Like they were talking before Colin was talking. They had already done the protest in that summer and in their season. And it wasn't just with the Minnesota team. It then kind of went league wide.
You guys wore black t-shirts and refused to speak to the media about it. I mean, if you remember that summer, it was like, there was like five really high profile murders of black men. And there was the shooting of the police officers. I think it was in Dallas. It was a very violent and tragic summer sort of leading into Colin's kneeling, which was like September or something.
So I think I was already kind of like opening my eyes to what was happening and, you know, going through, like I said, like Trayvon Martin and then the protests in Ferguson and Michael Brown and that obviously extended really far, the formation of black lives matter. Like I was just like learning about it.
I didn't really, I mean, I don't think I was really thinking about it all that much before then. And then you guys, you know, and it was just much more is like, I feel like that summer, every time he turned around, like articles or in the Atlantic or the New York times or sports illustrate, it was all just kind of like in the sort of zeitgeist of the moment. So I Yeah.
Like you guys were the first ones to really speak out. And I think even it's like, even in my sort of like implicit bias, I think back then I would say Colin was probably a bigger influence. Cause obviously when he spoke out, he got so much more media attention.
It's the NFL, but like really they were saying the exact same, they were doing the exact same things, you know, in, in the best way that they could or in the most impactful way that they could sort of prior to Colin even kneeling for the first time.
Yeah. You guys were really the, like the sort of like the, the, the snap or the whatever firecracker, obviously, you know, shout out Stacey Abrams and Fair Fight and the activists on the ground. I mean, we had, they were setting the like groundwork, but it did, it did feel like, the moment where it became more of a national thing or more thing that the casual person was thinking about.
And then you guys saved the Republic by getting us two more senators, at least, even though we haven't really done enough with the advantage that we don't have. Anyways, we don't need to get into that.
Well, and I mean, really just very bluntly, in our country, that is... white supremacist-founded, heteronormative, cisgendered, patriarchal, the straight-assumed, generally white, cisgendered women, of course, it's like we're cute and white. Right. We talk about this all the time.
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