Outraged Americans are set to protest February 16 outside the National Football League’s New York City headquarters against theSuper Bowl halftime show put on by Beyoncé Knowles, featuring her new song, “Formation” [Anti-Beyonce forces to protest outside NFL offices Tuesday, by Howard Gensler, Philly, February 14, 2016]
The song’s video pushes an explicitly anti-police message. The first scene: Beyoncé on top of a New Orleans Police Department car partially submerged in water, an obvious homage to the 2005Hurricane Katrina. There are the usual stereotypical gyrations until the end of the video, when white police surrender to a dancing black youth—symbolizing whites caving to the mobs of Black Lives Matter.
But the Super Bowl performance was even more provocative.
Beyoncé’s backup dancers held up a sign championing Mario Woods, a man killed by police after he advanced toward them with a knife.[The Black Lives Matter protest that you missed from Beyoncé’s halftime show dancers, by Yanan Wang, Washington Post, February 9, 2016]. It also showcased a deliberate homage to the criminal Black Panther Party. ...
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