“This is football, not Hollywood, and I thought it was really outrageous that she used it as a platform to attack police officers who are the people who protect her and protect us, and keep us alive”, he said. Her backup dancers, it appeared, were dressed as members of the Black Panther Party.
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Facebook released its numbers for last night’s Super Bowl 50, reporting 60 million Facebook users shared 200 million posts, comments or likes around the game.
Beyonce extolls natural African hair just as the camera turns to her smiling four-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy. But now awareness of the case, which is being investigated by the US Department of Justice, has been catapulted to new, probably unforeseen heights thanks to Beyonce and her dancers using their truly global platform for politics.
In a photo taken backstage Beyonce’s mom, Tina Knowles, is surrounded by the dancers whose fists are raised.
New York’s former mayor is not pleased with the Queen B. San Francisco police killed him in a hail of bullets December 2.
In what mic.com described as “one of the most political music videos in recent memory”, she is seen lying on top of a New Orleans police vehicle that sinks into water, a clear reference to Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged mainly black communities in 2005.
Here’s the thing… Beyonce is a smart cookie; she would have known that whilst in the process of recording the track and the video, the message and the visuals would not go down well with everyone, but she still chose to put it out. Images honored past halftime performers including Stevie Wonder, Black Eyed Peas and the late Michael Jackson, whose military-style wardrobe inspired Beyonce’s costume Sunday. There’s no mistaking her anger as she gives the finger during part of the video.
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He wrote of the “irony” of Beyoncé and her husband owing her “success to the capitalist system the leftist Black Lives Matter movement is intent on destroying”.
