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It has been properly over a month since Kendrick Lamar broke NFL viewing data along with his efficiency throughout the Tremendous Bowl LIX Halftime Present in early February — and, apparently, white persons are nonetheless salty about it.
The Hill revealed this week that Lamar’s halftime present efficiency has prompted not less than 125 complaints to the Federal Communications Fee (FCC). The overwhelming majority of the complaints had been reportedly primarily based on both allegations of “provacative dancing,” the language the “DNA” rapper supposedly used, or, after all, the white and eternally fragile grievance that the present was “racist” as a result of “not one white individual” was seen onstage.
From the Hill:
“The halftime present was horrible with the language and gestures. My youthful children didn’t must see and listen to this!” one viewer from Lenox, Unwell., wrote.
“That was the worst halftime present that I’ve ever seen,” one other viewer from Catawba, N.C., wrote to the FCC. “I’m glad that I couldn’t perceive most of what Kendrick Lamar was saying as a result of I learn the lyrics to some of his songs, and I’m appalled. It was divisive, downgrading, and crammed with profanity. It’s completely not acceptable leisure for all ages.”
“For the following Tremendous Bowl, please contemplate hiring musical leisure that’s household pleasant and never socially or politically centered,” one other viewer wrote. “It could be a pleasant change to have leisure that actually reveals what America ought to be; household, nation, decency and respect. It’s tiresome to must ship youngsters out of the room throughout what ought to be a household occasion as a consequence of doable vulgarity and inappropriate language/gestures.”
Truthfully, that is hilarious.
White folks — (to be clear, not one of the complainers had been recognized by race, however, come on, y’all, this has unmittigated caucasity written throughout it) — proceed to be essentially the most catered to racial demographic within the historical past of the leisure business, particularly because it applies to sports activities, however they’re so upset over not being the default goal demographic for the whole lot that they’re begging a authorities entity to step in and do one thing about it. White folks have spent many years watching each pillar of our standard tradition, from TV to movie to broadcasting to promoting, being comprised of wall-to-wall whiteness with nary a grievance about how “racist” all of it is, however they’re out right here crying, “reverse Jim Crow” as a result of Kendrick didn’t invite any melanin-deficient people onto his Tremendous Bowl stage.
These folks, who admittedly struggled to grasp a phrase Ok-Dot was saying, are out right here mendacity about profane language they couldn’t presumably have heard — even when they may perceive it — as a result of even with Kendrick on the helm, the Tremendous Bowl halftime present is a censored occasion.
Right here’s the factor: Plenty of (largely white) folks noticed the halftime present and hated it, after which they bought on the web and noticed that lots of different (largely white) folks hated it too. So, they felt vindicated pondering it could be universally acknowledged because the worst Tremendous Bowl halftime present in NFL historical past — however that didn’t occur.
As an alternative, Kendrick’s efficiency drew extra viewers than every other act within the present’s historical past, together with that of the final artist to carry that report, Michael Jackson, who took the NFL stage in 1993. Kendrick’s present additionally impressed weeks of social media traits that one couldn’t presumably escape if that they had made a behavior of thumbing via TikTok, Instagram or Fb reels. The memes and fixed social media evaluation of the present had been infinite. Hell, they nonetheless haven’t ended fully.
Anyway, all we will do about these folks is allow them to keep mad. The tradition isn’t theirs to dictate anymore. It’s on them to take care of it.
See who social media thinks is accountable for the complaints under.
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