Beyoncé may not have expected to enrage one of America’s most beloved mayors with her Super Bowl performance, not because it wasn’t outrageous, but likely because she may have expected no one to notice the dangerous undertones it contained. Well it didn’t go to plan, and now Rudi Giuliani is speaking out against the anti-cop performance.
“This is football, not Hollywood — and I thought it was really outrageous that [Beyoncé] used it as a platform to attack police officers, who are the people who protect her, and protect us, and keep us alive,” Giuliani said on Monday.
“What we should be doing in the African-American community and all communities is build up respect for police officers and focus on the fact that when something does go wrong, okay, we’ll work on that. But the vast majority of police officers risk their lives to keep us safe,” the 2008 GOP presidential candidate said.
Miss the show and not sure what’s got Rudy so upset? Daily Mail has a recap of the performance below:
Beyoncé issued a strong political statement with her halftime show at Super Bowl 50 on Sunday with backing dancers dressed as members of armed rights group the Black Panthers.
The superstar brought the dancers on for her new single Formation which is being widely touted as a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement.
At one point during the song, the supporting performers formed an ‘X’ on the field – thought to reference black rights campaigner Malcolm X – and then raised their arms in the air in a gesture referencing the black power salute by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.
Following the show, several of the dancers were pictured giving the same salute around a piece of paper that reads ‘justice 4 Mario Woods’ – a black man shot dead by police in San Francisco last December.
Beyoncé’s “strong political statement,” as the Daily Mail called it, is nothing short of thinly veiled anti-cop rhetoric. Its nothing new for Beyoncé, but that makes it no less disgusting, and this woman was asked to present on America’s biggest night. Ridiculous.
Source: The Hill, Daily Mail
Beyonce, common trash.
More incompetence by wealthy niggers ! They complain but are worth millions . I doubt this douche ever gets harassed by police or her jackass husband . I’m am sick and tired of hearing about blacks and their crying over everything / obviously they are a weak people who need a crutch to survive . They need to blame their failures on something because they aren’t strong enough mentally to accept its their own fault .
A highly overrated singer. The whole halftime was boring.