There s a lot of s t I don t do like I did when I was 18 or 20 : Activist-athlete Gwen Berry tries to brush off history of racially charged tweets and compares herself to Brett Kavanaugh during his SCOTUS nomination
Gwen Berry, 32, took to Twitter Saturday afternoon to defend her past offensive tweets
A series of derogatory comments she made about Chinese, Mexican and white people, as well as tasteless jokes about rape, came to light
Most of the tweets were around a decade old when the athlete was in her early 20s but were still online
Berry compared the dredging up of the posts to the allegations that surfaced against Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court nomination in 2018 that he sexually assaulted women in the 1980s
Gwendolyn Berry (L), third place, turns away from U.S. flag during the U.S. National Anthem as DeAnna Price (C), first place, and Brooke Andersen, second place, also stand on the podium after the Women’s Hammer Throw final on day nine of the 2020 U.S. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
The 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics kicks off this month, and there’s no shortage of related topics being discussed at every level of entertainment and politics. This year, Team USA is stacked with incredible talent, including a growing list of Black athletes who will have the opportunity to compete for the gold medal.
Gwen Berry staged a protest on the podium at the Olympic trials on Sunday
The 31-year-old hammer thrower turned her back on the flag and anthem
On Thursday it emerged Berry was paid by anti-police group Color of Change
Berry tweeted: Thank you Color of Change for always standing with me
Last year Color of Change s president declared: Policing is a violent institution that must end
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Caitlyn Jenner slammed
At the conclusion of the Olympic track and field qualification trials, Berry,
Brooke Andersen, and
DeAnna Price were on the podium with their medals when the national anthem started to play. Berry turned away from the flag and displayed a shirt saying “Activist Athlete.” She subsequently told reporters, “I feel like it was a setup. I feel like they did that on purpose… I was pissed, to be honest.”
Newsmax’s
Eric Bolling asked Jenner about Berry on Wednesday night.
“Honestly it’s disgusting,” Jenner said. “I love this country, I love this state. I was the first person ever to put the American flag up at the finish line in 1976, and I’m very proud of that.”