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Jay-Z’s Call To “Action”!
Is shifting responsibility for police brutality to victims and selling merch the “actions” we’ve been waiting for?
There are pseudo-woke individuals who either play the game for fame and money or hide their white privilege/supremacy in “live and love” cliched hippie jargon (*cough Alyssa Milano). Then there’s…
Jay-Z? What is he doing? What is he saying? He is piling fiasco on top of fiasco. His deal with the NFL screams ‘sellout’, his comments about police interactions scream ‘victim blaming’ and he is causing untold damage in public perception to his name, brand and community.
Let’s first go back to when Colin Kaepernick (Kap) who, wanting to draw attention to police brutality against Black people began to sit during the national anthem in 2016. After speaking with people who have served in the military, he began to “take a knee” during the anthem — as per their suggestion.
Despite this, it blew up and the dialogue shifted from the real threat of police violence toward the Black…
