Beyoncé Graced the stage with Bruno Mars and Cold Play at the Super bowl 50 Half Time show, and while the whole performance was a visual spectacle in Technicolor featuring rainbows, flowers, and violin-playing children all eyes were on Beyoncé’s black Panther inspired performance.
“People are so afraid of black pride. I didn’t see anything wrong with her performance honestly. I think people were just looking for problems because Beyoncé selected the Super bowl to highlight problems facing the black community,” said Sophia Davis, 20, a Business Major.
Beyoncé’s call for all her ladies to get in “formation,” was one heard around the world, or at least echoed in the ears of every Beyoncé, and super bowl fan. Backlash from her performance grew to such outrage that a planned rally against her and the NFL was set for Tuesday, February 16, 2016.
A posting to Eventbrite by anti Beyoncé sympathizers pleaded for people who were like wised disgusted at the “race-baiting stunt at Super bowl,” to boycott. The post read, “Do you agree that it was a slap in the face to law enforcement? Do you agree that the Black Panthers was/is a hate group which should not be glorified? Come and let’s stand together. Let’s tell the NFL we don’t want hate speech & racism at the Super bowl ever again! #Boycott Beyoncé #BlueLivesMatter #AllLivesMatter.” To show their uniformity all anti-Queen Bey protestors were urged to wear blue in support for the NYPD, because the BeyHive counter-protestors would be dressed in all black attire.
The protest turned out to be a bust. Only two protestors showed up to join the event, confirmed US Weekly.
Although Beyoncé sparked a heated debate many praise her for standing up for the Black Lives Matter Movement and bringing attention to the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party.
“So many lies have been told about the Black Panther Party,” said Richard Pounds a Psychologist from Montclair New Jersey. “They stood to protect black men, women and children against police brutality. They launched a free breakfast program for children who could not afford a hot meal in the mornings, but not only did they feed kids who were of low income they fed every child that wanted a meal, whether they were black, white or purple.”
The Black Panther Party continues to get a bad rap as a hate group because of the misrepresentation and false understandings of the group. The party’s original purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality. The Black Panther Party believed that American capitalists and elites could and typically did exploit and oppress others, particularly the African American working class, according to the encyclopedia Britannica.
Many were surprised at the release of “Formation” and its strong “Black Power” message because never in all of the 26 years as a performer has she sounded quite like this.
“A lot of people are upset [about Beyoncé’s performance] but when have you ever seen Beyoncé do that. I’m 24 and I’ve been following Beyoncé since Destiny’s Child and I’ve never seen her like this. I’m very excited because it gives me the opportunity to say there goes my people,” said Synead Nichols an organizer of Millions March NYC, a protest in which 30,000 supporters marched in NYC to show their outrage over police violence against unarmed Black men and women.
Beyoncé’s Formation video and performance was a welcomed embrace of black heritage to many people that look up to her as a role model. Many think the song and performance couldn’t come at a better time and that the platform she had with Super bowl 50 had the third largest audience in Television history according to CNN.
“The performance allows my sister to say, I don’t want to be like Britney spears, I want to be like Beyoncé,” said Nichols.
“People are so afraid of black pride. I didn’t see anything wrong with her performance honestly. I think people were just looking for problems because Beyoncé selected the Super bowl to highlight problems facing the black community,” said Sophia Davis, 20, a Business Major.
Beyoncé’s call for all her ladies to get in “formation,” was one heard around the world, or at least echoed in the ears of every Beyoncé, and super bowl fan. Backlash from her performance grew to such outrage that a planned rally against her and the NFL was set for Tuesday, February 16, 2016.
A posting to Eventbrite by anti Beyoncé sympathizers pleaded for people who were like wised disgusted at the “race-baiting stunt at Super bowl,” to boycott. The post read, “Do you agree that it was a slap in the face to law enforcement? Do you agree that the Black Panthers was/is a hate group which should not be glorified? Come and let’s stand together. Let’s tell the NFL we don’t want hate speech & racism at the Super bowl ever again! #Boycott Beyoncé #BlueLivesMatter #AllLivesMatter.” To show their uniformity all anti-Queen Bey protestors were urged to wear blue in support for the NYPD, because the BeyHive counter-protestors would be dressed in all black attire.
The protest turned out to be a bust. Only two protestors showed up to join the event, confirmed US Weekly.
Although Beyoncé sparked a heated debate many praise her for standing up for the Black Lives Matter Movement and bringing attention to the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party.
“So many lies have been told about the Black Panther Party,” said Richard Pounds a Psychologist from Montclair New Jersey. “They stood to protect black men, women and children against police brutality. They launched a free breakfast program for children who could not afford a hot meal in the mornings, but not only did they feed kids who were of low income they fed every child that wanted a meal, whether they were black, white or purple.”
The Black Panther Party continues to get a bad rap as a hate group because of the misrepresentation and false understandings of the group. The party’s original purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality. The Black Panther Party believed that American capitalists and elites could and typically did exploit and oppress others, particularly the African American working class, according to the encyclopedia Britannica.
Many were surprised at the release of “Formation” and its strong “Black Power” message because never in all of the 26 years as a performer has she sounded quite like this.
“A lot of people are upset [about Beyoncé’s performance] but when have you ever seen Beyoncé do that. I’m 24 and I’ve been following Beyoncé since Destiny’s Child and I’ve never seen her like this. I’m very excited because it gives me the opportunity to say there goes my people,” said Synead Nichols an organizer of Millions March NYC, a protest in which 30,000 supporters marched in NYC to show their outrage over police violence against unarmed Black men and women.
Beyoncé’s Formation video and performance was a welcomed embrace of black heritage to many people that look up to her as a role model. Many think the song and performance couldn’t come at a better time and that the platform she had with Super bowl 50 had the third largest audience in Television history according to CNN.
“The performance allows my sister to say, I don’t want to be like Britney spears, I want to be like Beyoncé,” said Nichols.