U.S. women's soccer star Megan Rapinoe insisted in a recent interview that she and her teammates love America, but in a 'James Baldwin kind of way.'
USWNT forward Megan Rapinoe answers questions from journalists during a press conference amid the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Auckland, New Zealand, on Jul 30, 2023.
"And 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: ‘Oh, you guys don’t sing the anthem, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You don’t love America.’ But we do love America," she said."It’s just more in a James Baldwin kind of way, not in a bald-eagle-on-your-shoulder kind of way.
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