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A dancer raised a Palestine and Sudan Flag at SuperBowl Halftime show.

FREE PALESTINE and SUDAN

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cant be the only gay bitch sitting legs kicking watching ads waiting for usher while yelling about the 49ers cuz i just don’t like the chiefs on this lovely sunday evening

You see across social media the difference in how Chappel Roan is praised for "starting a movement" by bringing up healthcare in terms of her own benefit, but Kendrick Lamar, with an entire discography on social issues and bringing attention to stuff going on in the world to those less financially sound than him gets reduced to the "Not Like Us" craze, because it's a single feeding into the rap battle culture and it "annihilates" Drake.

the biggest threat in america the desire for peace.

they're wording it like he brought in a fckn firearm.

shoutout that person on the field who showed the palestinian and sudanese flags before being literally dragged away in the dark by security

In celebration of the Super Bowl on Sunday! I was always intrigued by Darkrai's broad-ass shoulders and decided to edit it to the Chiefs uniform. I thought about editing this but didn't know what uniform to edit it too, so I asked my dad what team he was rooting for and he asked google who was playing and five minutes later he said "hmmm... i guess the chiefs" so I gave him chiefs uniform if the opposing wins, I'll edit shiny darkrai to wear that uniform.

btw i heard somewhere that football players crush water-bottles and put them on their solders and thats why they appear big and broad.

Having republican texan family members who are cowboy fans is so funny because like yea they don't like that im 'radical' and lesbian but the worst thing ive ever done to them (according to them) is root for the eagles.

I see a lot of people saying stuff about this smile and I agree with a good chunk of it but genuinely I just love how happy he looks

Like idk how to explain it other than the joy of making art and being able to share it

This man Kendrick started cheesing while playing Not Like Us at the god damn Superbowl y'all I'm sick to my stomach rn

shout out for the ppl that attend Super B*wl hope u enjoyed the genocide!

Rafah was supposed to be a safe zone. The world has failed Palestinians in many ways, and it continues to be beyond horrifying. The Super Bowl usually reaches over 100 million viewers every year, and I just saw the advertisement the IOF displayed in advance the other day to 'release the hostages.' They're calling it a 'Gaza hostage awareness video campaign' while they're mercilessly bombing Palestinian people to severe injury or death. A genocide is going on, and Israel is committing ethnic cleansing. The IOF are nothing but settler-colonial terrorists, but the world is being fed a message that they are innocent.

I hope the IOF falls to the greatest depths of despair and experiences tenfold what Palestinian people and children have.

my (very white) family during kendricks half-time performance (unsurprisingly) voiced their displeasure of him, going so far to say that it had sucked. This, obviously, is bullshit💀 Kendrick’s half-time performance was downright genius, with a copious amount of symbolism regarding America and its current state. Samual L. Jackson as Sam was absolutely genius on Kendrick’s part, as well as the formation of the unconnected American flag with the dancers. I love his performance, and when he played Not Like Us, I started singing and dancing like no tomorrow💃 I could care less about what my family thought of his performance, but the ignorance and obvious racism regarding their commentary and side-comments was both disappointing and unsurprising. On a funnier note, Kendrick looking straight into the camera when he said “Hey Drake” was funny as hell😂 And I’m so glad I got to see it live!! Kendrick was badass and I hope to see more stuff like this from him later lol.

Worst part about being a New Jerseyan (Giants fan) is that the Eagles song is so catchy

Omg. Fucking love this guy.

"I was afraid I'd be sniped by a secret service bullet! I can watch a football program on the television if I choose to, sir."

#Repost @pulseofpal:

Producer Zul-Qarnain Nantambu who raised a combined Sudanese and Palestinian flag in protest while performing during Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show, speaking to AlJazeera he explains why he took the opportunity to spread awareness of those suffering on a global scale.

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I am surprised that we didn't see the following announcement during the blackout during Sunday's Super Bowl.

"This power outage is brought you by Buffalo Wild Wings."

A Crash Course to Kendrick's Super Bowl Performance, from a Black Woman

Note: this does NOT go in depth into all of the song's lyrics. I don't have time to recount two decades of his discography. This is just a summary of the performance itself.

Let's start with the first visual we get:

UNCLE SAM - most notably recognized from WWII American wartime propaganda, Uncle Sam is the personification of American patriotism and freedom. The term "uncle" is also evocative of Uncle Tom from Uncle Tom's Cabin, an abolitionist book that aided in inciting the Civil War. Uncle is also a very common term (both endearment and derogatory) towards Black men (eg. "unc"). Samuel L Jackson was fantastic.

Uncle Sam also resembles a circus ringleader, notable for my next point:

THE GREAT AMERICAN GAME - no, not Super Bowl. The GAG is us the people being pitted against each other: through late-stage capitalism, through the culture war, through class warfare, through being built of the backs of slaves. We are all players in the GAG because none of us on this site were the oligarchs seated at the inauguration.

This is also seen as Kendrick's stage was a Play Station controller. Not only did it remind of circus rings visually, but it was a game battle stage. The Great American Game is a battle royale of the commoners for the amusement of the rich whites.

Remember the foods / Them color was tin and brown / But now they 100 and blue - For this I'll just say, look what the last election said about lowering the price of eggs... and look at the prices now.

The revolution about to be televised / You picked the right time / But the wrong guy - Election 2024 once more. *Edit to add, the first part of this lyric is in reference to the Black Liberation Song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" by Gil Scott-Heron. Thanks to everyone who mentioned that.

THE FLAG DANCERS - yes, the dancers formed the US flag... off of the backs of Black people. Not a single white person in sight, and that's true of the cotton pickers in the fields. Plantations are part of how the US came to economic prominence after being a "backwater" colony. Remember tobacco? Cotton? Our bloodlines do. *Edit to add: they also all piled out of a clown car. The US flag in a clown car? Brilliant.

The red and blue dancers are also notable for representing the Crips and Bloods, two infamous street gangs. The dance in Not Like Us is the Crip Walk. I recommend researching more on your own time about them, but just know they are a large part of the stereotype of Black people being "ghetto."

TOO LOUD, TOO RECKLESS, TOO GHETTO. Do you really know how to play the game? - This is exactly what Black people, especially Black men, get told all the time. It's why we change our names on resumes if they sound "too Black." It's why we codeswitch in non-Black company. This is especially rich considering how non-Black people love our culture and love to make money off of us, as the latter part of the quote points to. And it's even more profound during the Super Bowl-- the NFL is majority Black players.

STREET LIGHT A CAPELLA -- "thug" stereotype dancers to counteract the a capella connotations, with Uncle Sam then saying that Kendrick figured out "bringing other street guys around being a culture cheat code." Yes, this is a direct hit at Drake (listen to "Not Like Us") but also politically. Look up "model minority". Notably I would point to Candace Owens, or the Miami Venezuelan political group that's been in the news recently, especially as this directly led to Kendrick being surrounded by...

DANCERS IN WHITE -- it's white America. That's... that's the allegory.

NOT LIKE US TEASER -- Kendrick says "Not Like Us" is "their favorite song." -> he means white people specifically here. It comes after he's surrounded by all white dancers, the women around him who are his call and response are also in white (my opinion, they represent the industry). He's saying "Not Like Us" is the favorite of yts because it is about BLACK MEN FIGHTING. This again is reflected in the video game stage and ringleader Uncle Sam.

SZA -- instead of giving what they want, we see SZA. She's one of Drake's exes and Kendrick has always supported her.

ALL THE STARS -- This was in the first Black Panther movie, which I recommend you watch. Rest in Power Chadwick. Notably, this movie was incredibly mainstream as a major Marvel movie, and then we have Uncle Sam say...

"THAT'S WHAT AMERICA WANTS: NICE AND CALM. DON'T MESS THIS UP" -- translation: Marvel (the industry, America, etc.) wanted a safe, semi-pop song because white American likes safe pop songs, not Kendrick's usual heavy rap style about his life as a Black man! Don't mess up what you've got going mainstream for having this "Black rap feud" with Drake, who is an R&B model minority to white people because he's safe.

So what does Kendrick say?

IT'S A CULTURAL DIVIDE / IMMA GET IT ON THE FLOOR -- He was warned not to be political or apologetically Black for this Super Bowl performance, but he is using this big stage opportunity to speak out.

40 ACRES AND A MULE / THIS IS BIGGER THAN THE MUSIC -- 40 acres and a mule are what the freed slaves were promised. Instead, this land went to white sharecroppers. Research Jim Crow laws.

THEY TRIED TO RIG THE GAME / BUT YOU CAN'T FAKE INFLUENCE -- rig the election, rig the industry like with model minority Drake, rig the Great American Game with culture war to distract from active class warfare.

NOT LIKE US -- the only thing I'll mention because it made me holler is Serena Williams crip walking on Drake's metaphorical grave. She's another one of his exes.

TURN THE TV OFF -- exactly like he said! The TV is a distraction, the Super Bowl is a distraction, the mainstream news is often a distraction. Turn it off and get with your people!

GAME OVER — could not see this on my stream but at the end of the performance, the lights in the stadium spelled this out. The world is watching, America…

In conclusion, Kendrick Lamar is a visionary and thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Tomorrow, Daniel Durant performs pregame at Super Bowl LVIII with an exciting performance of the national anthem!!!

🤟🏻💙💜🫶🏻💗💕💋🥰😍 I can't wait!!! Who else is excited? ✨️ Team Sign to Shine always and forever ✨️

the superbowl asked indy how many commercials they wanted and indy said all of them

Kendrick's halftime show was so peak!!1!!!! THE SET DESIGN, SPECTACULAR. THE CHOREOGRAPHY, AMAZING. AND SAMMY L JACKSON WAS SO GOOD AT UNCLE SAM HOLY PEAK

truly a world-class hater and we love to see it

Listen, I have seen many a posts to the tune of "Hozier is a fae god!" Or "Florence is a fae god!" And I am here to tell you that neither of them are fae gods. Paramours, probably, maybe members of an Entourage, but gods? No.

You want to know who an actual fucking fae god is???

Kendrick Lamar.

The pettiness. The creativity. The persuasiveness. The accuracy. He had 110 million people across the nation today singing "a minooooor" like it was fucking nothing. This man has cast a thousand-year curse on Aubrey Graham's bloodline that cannot be undone through mortal means.

Now, THAT is some fae god level shit.

Puppy Bowl > Super Bowl

Fight me.

Penelope was my absolute favorite she was just happy to be there 😭‼️ Everytime they’d focus on other puppies you could see this little black blur in the background racing back and forth IT WAS SO DAMN CUTE.