“I just couldn’t be a sellout,” Rihanna told Vogue in 2019, after turning down the 2018 gig in a show of solidarity with Colin Kaepernick.
, “gives Jay Z influence over the league’s most important music events, including the halftime show.” That signing was controversial coming after Kaepernick’s row with the league, but Jay explained his decision to thelike this: “No one is saying [Kaepernick] hasn’t been done wrong. He was done wrong. I would understand if it was three months ago.
But it was three years ago and someone needs to say, ‘What do we do now — because people are still dying?’” Jay Z had anTo Rihanna’s 2019 point, there are still “things” within that organization that anyone with a functional moral compass would object to, like alleged racist hiring practices and star players accused of sexual assault. And yet football persists. NPR’son the NFL’s Teflon nature just last week.
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