Megan Rapinoe tells ‘white people’ to ‘defer’ leadership to marginalized groups

Megan Rapinoe, a professional soccer player turned sandwich spokeswoman, smeared America’s history as “gross” and urged her fellow white Americans to step back to allow people of other races to be leaders. “Particularly for white people, I really do think it’s on us to defer to leadership of people who are marginalized and are traditionally cut out of all these stories, to not just lead, but to fill in the story. We have such a small understanding and narrow view of even what the history of America is — which, if you really think about it, is pretty gross in a lot of ways. It’s pretty destructive and violent and hateful in many ways,” she said.