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FIFA has shown itself to be a colonial instrument that serves white supremacy and U.S. imperialism.
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“Professional soccer does everything to [destroy] that energy of happiness, but it survives in spite of all the spites.”
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The United States should never host the World Cup because it is a country built on racism, repression, and endless war.
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“It is impossible to make a national home for one people in a country inhabited by another, except by dislodging the latter.”
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