Hot Time in Old Town · Aug 14, 2017
Red Stars Midfielder Dani Colaprico Comments On Charlottesville
Unless you live under a rock, or you’re one of those people that goes out of their way to avoid current events, you’re probably more-or-less up to date on what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia this weekend. The otherwise-peaceful college town became the center of gravity in an ongoing political crisis in the United States surrounding the ascendancy of violent white nationalism and the tacit legitimization by an Executive Branch who, remarkably, needed three days and no small amount of goading to go on television and explicitly say that Nazis are bad.
This is one of those stories that can hit uncomfortably close to home. And indeed, there’s a connection to Chicago soccer.