The U.S. Sports Federation of the American Football Federation removed a member on Sunday after delivering a seven-minute speech at a recent meeting with false statements and racist allegations about the right of players to protest.
The federation voted 71 percent in favor of repeal in June a policy of 2017 requires athletes to stand during the national anthem, after US Women’s National Soccer Team (USWNT) Megan Rapinoe became the first outside the NFL to join Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling protest.
The vote – 71% ahead, with only a simple majority needed – follows directly on this seven-minute sensational disagreement by Seth Jahn, an American Paralympic player who is currently a member of the American Football Athletics Council. pic.twitter.com/vH4Pc4vkT4
– Bryan Armen Graham (@BryanAGraham) 27 February 2021
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“After being in staff positions in the senior teams, youth national teams and a player on the national team, it was a large number [of] the biggest names in our federation strongly disagree with kneeling, of course behind closed doors, but they were wiped out because they expressed their positions within the team or in public, which I am not afraid to do. I deserved the right. I promised I would keep their identity secret, but how do you think it will ultimately affect the culture and cohesion of the team and their performance. United we stand, divided we kneel, ‘said former US national captain and Paralympic Seth Jahn, who voted against the recall.
In a statement, the council said it “wants to be unequivocal in condemning the statements made by Mr Jahn yesterday” and that he “does not tolerate this kind of language and finds it incompatible with membership of the council.”
Statement of the Athlete Board regarding Seth Jahn. pic.twitter.com/lYhsdn9BZu
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In his speech, the 38-year-old dismissed the issue of police brutality against black Americans as a ‘statistical deviation’ and called for a false statistics claims to represent ‘black on black crime’, which many critics consider a dangerous and racist myth. Many of his arguments against athletes’ protests against police brutality and slavery were the idea that these problems are universal, saying “there is racism in every race” and “every race …. is addicted.” He also minimized slavery, falsely claimed that the United States was the only country that fought to end slavery (Mexico did so even before the US).
“I lived in Africa for two and a half years where I could buy people – slaves – between $ 300 and $ 800 per person per head, depending on their age, health and physicality,” Jahn said. mixed race identity, claims to represent the Aniwaya family of the Cherokee Nation, and called up his time in the military.
Rapinoe applauded the federation’s move, calling it a ‘spot on’.
Leadership. . Spot on Becky https://t.co/41Qfb44rI4
– Megan Rapinoe (@mPinoe) 28 February 2021
“Seth is entitled to his own opinion – however, he is not entitled to his own set of facts, nor do I think he should use the facts in a way that misinforms and obscures the real issues,” Becky Sauerbrunn said. the current captain of the USWNT.
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