Guest post by John Binder
Beyonce and her dancers raise the Black Power fist at Super Bowl 50.
Beyonce’s Super Bowl halftime performance was a cop-hating political statement is support of the Black Panthers – a Marxist group whose leader Huey Newton was was arrested for shooting Police Officer John Frey.
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Beyonce’s performance included only black dancers – who gave the Black Panther salute to the international audience.
Beyoncés dancers in black berets at #SB50 paying homage to the Black Panthers 50 years after their #formation in ’66 pic.twitter.com/YXpzBkkm6s
— The Dream Defenders (@Dreamdefenders) February 8, 2016
Celebrities love to trash police officers these days because it will get you a great little editorial write-up in the New York Times. So when Beyonce sang her anti-police song at the Super Bowl, it made it all the more ironic that this happened just before the show.
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Gotta love it! Rich Hollywood celebrities complaining about “the system” and then directly benefiting from it.
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