Gwen Berry is (unfortunately) a member of the US Hammer Throwing team participating in the Olympic trials. While she was standing on the podium after receiving the Bronze medal, this happened.
On Saturday, the song happened to start while outspoken activist Gwen Berry was standing on the podium after receiving her bronze medal in the hammer throw. While the music played, Berry placed her left hand on her hip and shuffled her feet. She took a quarter turn, so she was facing the stands, not the flag. Toward the end, she plucked up her black T-shirt with the words “Activist Athlete” emblazoned on the front, and draped it over her head.
The song was the US National Anthem. It was played at the same time every night. Despite that Berry decided she was set up:
“I feel like it was a set-up, and they did it on purpose,” Berry said of the timing of the anthem. “I was pissed, to be honest.”
Pissed? At what? The Anthem was played at the same time every night but on this night she chose to make it about herself. Her excuses make no sense whatsoever.
“I never said that I didn’t want to go to the Olympic Games. That’s why I competed and got third and made the team,” Berry told CNN affiliate Black News Channel on Monday.
“I never said that I hated the country, never said that. All I said was I respect my people enough to not stand or acknowledge something that disrespects them. I love my people point blank, period.”
That flag represents her country and yes, she does hate her country. She’s standing on an Olympic podium. If she wanted respect, this was hardly the way to go about it. All she’s done is create resentment. She leaves the impression of being ungrateful.
In which country would she rather be? In which country would she be more respected and more free to insult her homeland without consequences? The Olympics is not the place nor the time for activism.
Calls for her removal from the team have come but are unlikely to see success.
What other countries’ athletes are so eager and able to freely protest the land that gave them the opportunity to achieve what she has achieved?
Prior to this petulance I would have been happy for her success whatever that might have been. She would have had my respect. Now I have no feelings about it at all and have little inclination to tune in to her performance.
At this point, any win is a still a loss.
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““I never said that I hated the country, never said that. All I said was I respect my people enough to not stand or acknowledge something that disrespects them. I love my people point blank, period.””
Who are “her people”? I thought it would be Americans. ALL Americans.
On “Gutfeld”, Tyrus had an interesting theory. He said she was pissed because she was planning on pulling this stunt at the Olympics. She didn’t know (because she is stupid) they were going to play the National Anthem and when they did, she couldn’t stand for it here then turn her back on it in Tokyo (as if she’s going to medal there). Now she has already played her racist cards.
And the White House approves, of course. We weren’t before, but the Democrats are certainly turning this nation into a systemically racist country.
A PO BLACK S!
Deport her to Communist China and let her try her uppity, snarling, HATE America crap all she wants. She thinks America is racist? Wait until she is enslaved by Nike and forced to work with little pay.
This nation has given her and “her people” so much, and this is the thanks it gets?
*sigh*… Some people…
She should she replaced Actvists Athlete with Chump
Her 15 minutes of fame are about up. Never heard of her before this and soon this will be file 13 for me.
EUGENE, OR—In a move many are hailing as both “stunning” and “brave”, hammer-throwing athlete Gwen Berry turned her back on the flag as the national anthem played after she qualified to represent America in the Olympics.
“America stinks, and it has oppressed me my entire life,” said Berry. “My qualification for the U.S. Olympic team is just another example of the long string of systemic injustices I have suffered at the hand of systemic white systems of Western cis-patriarchal oppression and the systems of hetero Christian male dominance and the… what was I talking about? Oh yeah– America stinks and I’m oppressed!”
Berry says she hopes to share her inspiring message with young girls of color everywhere– that they will never belong in America, be happy in America, or be free in America due to the color of their skin.
“I am disgusted with myself for representing this racist country in the Olympic games, but it was my only option since China doesn’t really let black athletes compete. I look forward to the universal acclaim, Nike endorsement deals, and vast riches that are coming my way! Yay me! Also, did I mention I’m oppressed?”
Nike has applauded Berry’s bravery and has offered her a $327 million endorsement deal and her own line of Uyghur-made clothing.
The Bee
the piece of street trash is not a representative of America. If you despise the conditions in America, move elsewhere, move to cuba russia. sub Sahara Africa. Just get the Hell out of this country. the street trash are no longer demanding white’s money and possession but the two domestic terrorist groups are now demanding that “we will take what is rightfully are”s” ?? this is called theft, robbery, arson, destruction of private business and public property. OH they have been dong it all last summer-nothing new.
Now the Rotunda in DC is racist. in congress they want to remove busts of the founding fathers-racist. replace them with career criminal floyd. Recall that in the early days of the country-18C there ware black plantation owners in the south that owned slaves. As noted sooo many times, these idiots can not read nor do that want to read and they will never understand the mistakes that history has made. they will fail.
Would you look at that “woman”?? You could put a cropped version of that shot centered on her face beside the online dictionary entry about putting lipstick on a pig! Honestly, I think she looks less feminine than that power lifter from New Zealand! Somebody ought to make her drop trou and or have a karyotype done to prove she IS a woman.
there is a limited time in which you can take a piece of shit, throw it in chocolate, roll it in sprinkles and call it a black, 3ed place hammer thrower. her excuse now in the national anthem. she is just plain street trash.