Perspective: “Megan Rapinoe and Simone Biles began as athletic stars. Then they became something greater.”
“I know there are millions of people who are marginalized by gender in the world and experience the same thing in their jobs. And I know there are people who experience even more, where the layers of discrimination continue to stack against them. And I and my teammates are here for them,” Rapinoe said during that White House event. “We on the U.S. women’s national team are here today because of them.”for $24 million. Before he recognized this achievement, Biden made a detour into story time.
“She helped lead the change for perhaps the most important victory for anyone on the soccer team or any soccer team — equal pay for women,” Biden said as resounding applause broke out in the room.The ceremony continued. Fred Gray, the attorney who represented Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and the NAACP during the fight for civil rights, sat cross-legged, flashing his red socks until standing up on his own to be adorned with a medal. At 91, he still practices law.
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