Fan-led soccer groups are accusing America First Credit Union's name and logo, which features an image of an eagle, of having racist and white supremacist connotations.
The "America first" slogan has been revived in recent years by former President Trump."
When Donald Trump began to make use of that term in his 2016 presidential campaign, anyone who was familiar with that history was discomfited," Myers said.
"The 'America' in our name denotes our connection to our founding members — civilian federal employees who worked at the American military bases and defense depots in Utah," a representative for America First Credit Union said in a statement to Axios.
"Those early members' deep and abiding sense of service and patriotism is something that continues to be felt within our membership to this day."The credit union said the term "first," which is commonly used for banks and credit unions, reflects "putting the financial needs of their members at the forefront.""
Just when you think this website can't get any more ridiculous. (I had to check if this was a parody account…sadly it is not)," Cox wrote on X, quote-tweeting a statement from North Carolina Courage's supporter group that criticized the credit union's name.As isolationism and anti-immigrant rhetoric rises, combined with the prospect of a second Trump presidency,
Myers said it's understandable why people would be sensitive to the expression."This strikes me as a really outstanding, teachable moment to go back and look at what this term has meant and understand more clearly why it has had the resonances and causes the discomfort that it does," he said.
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