Because the left politicizes everything it touches.
Posted on 02/08/2016 10:35:46 PM PST by SaveFerris
FULL TITLE: Kicked in the Bowls: Beyonce sparks race row after controversial Black Power Super Bowl half-time show
BEYONCE hijacked the Super Bowl — and strutted straight into a Black Power race row.
The pop star, 34, who had been accused of shunning her black heritage, stunned viewers by performing her new single Formation.
It includes attacks on police brutality and cops’ response to 2005’s Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
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Members of the National Sheriffs’ Association also turned their backs as they watched on Sunday at their Washington base. A cop’s wife posted: “Rise above and stay above the strife. For a girl who grew up in a privileged, wealthy family, she has no business pandering to those who didn’t.â€
But DeRay Mckesson, leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, called its “shout-outs†to Michael Jackson and activist Malcolm X “excellentâ€.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Yo, you keep saying panthers after Black, and somebody’s gonna need a new mascot name, bro!
Go Panthers! Go Redskins!
Any white dancers out there? I didn’t see any.
Me either and haven’t in decades.
To be fair, whatever she sang at the half-time show was completely incomprehensible. The only way a viewer would have known what she was singing would have been if they were already familiar with the song. I don’t care for Beyoncé, so I wouldn’t know lyrics to any of her songs.
Coldplay and Bruno Mars were good, but I think they could have come up with a better female lead singer. Despite Beyoncé being there, the half time show was pretty good.
Grr... that “é” is supposed to be the accented e.
For now that is, for now.
I resent that the LGBT “community” has co-opted one of nature’s most beautiful and intriguing atmospheric phenomenon’s as a symbol.
Sheriff Clarke, it were just a misunderstanding of communikathuns . . . we didn’t know it were the “Carolina” Panthers . . . we thought it were the Black Panthers. We wuz just representin’. It’s all good.
I went to NFL.com on Sunday night and there was a poll taken in regards to the halftime show and most that took it said it was bad.
It is February 2016, November 2016 is coming.
Jeez, didn’t notice the costume. I was distracted by her thighs. Did you see them? They were as big around as telephone poles. And, she moves like Michelle Obolo. I don’t know why she would even try to dance. It was embarrassing.
She rented accommodations for $10,000 per night to perform at the Superbowl. She speaks for the masses, alright.
Because the left politicizes everything it touches.
I soiled my browser and went to that link.
I only recently became aware of this when the NFL aired its reconstructed footage, and I went out of my way to watch it because that really interested me. They paint the guy like a victim, which is standard fare for the NYT.
When I read it, it seems to be a straightforward standard copyright thing. The guy’s father was able to record it for his own personal enjoyment, but due to law, cannot sell it for money without the consent of the NFL.
The guy sounds like a complete petulant, whining, dummy. He asked for a million dollars, and the league came back with $30K. If he had said how about $100K, they might have purchased it. The guy should have known the NFL had him over a barrel, and there is not a single whit of a thing he can do about it. Absolutely nothing. The dumbass NYT thinks there might be a hue and cry from the fans to make it available, but there really isn’t.
I really hate to side with the NFL on anything these days, but in this, I do. Granted, a million is small potatoes to the NFL, and they spent far, FAR more than that on the stupid deflated-football faux controversy, but...my guess is the guy was probably treating them like they had no options, and the NFL decided to play hardball, which they could do because the law is on their side. Even the stupid liberal law professor in the article said as much, lamenting the NFL should do it anyway simply because people want to see it. Typical liberal.
As it is, it sounds like it is missing part of the game. All the issues about color fading and all that, they could digitally fix without a problem.
It’s a shame we’re talking about this instead of some of the great comeback stories from the Broncos...
A 39 year old QB legend who lost his starting job mid-season returns to improbably take his team to the Superbowl and win, despite everyone predicting the other team. Not only that, but has anyone started as QB for two different Superbowl wins?
A QB who played backup without complaint his entire career because one of the greatest QBs of all time started ahead of him, ends his playing career and becomes a coach. He gets fired as HC of team located near the towns where he played HS and college ball. The same QB legend who started in front of him takes over as executive of his old pro team because the owner is slowly dying. He brings back the fired HC (his old backup), who was considered washed up and he improbably coaches his old pro team to a Superbowl win.
A linebacker who had trouble with substance abuse early in his career, gets his act together and straightens out his life, comes back from a season ending injury the year before, and plays out of his mind through the playoffs becoming one of the few defensive players to be named superbowl MVP.
That’s what we should be talking about. Not some singer trying a bad PR stunt to boost her appeal with the black community.
“why can’t ordinary folks just enjoy colors anymore”
I couldn’t hear the words she sang. I’m accustomed to blacks wearing black so saw nothing special about their black outfits. I enjoyed the colors without thinking of gaydom.
Sadly, all the good that has come out from this SB gets all mixed up with the bad.
It’s stunts like what Beyonce pulled that deteriorate race relations. I’m sick and tired of their attitudes. We’ve all had it rough but we survive. I’m sick and freekin tired of them making scenes. At this point I could care less about them and I’m done giving to the food banks or otherwise helping black people. DONE! I’m going full KKK.
“At this point I could care less about them and I’m done giving to the food banks or otherwise helping black people.”
I’m already there. I decided last summer to be fully engaged in ‘civil indifference’ towards their cause.
True, but it is really bad optics for the NFL to step on him like this.
They are legally correct, but the type of organization they are; they should be looking for any opportunity to be seen as the great benefactor and lover of the sport.
I'm game.
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