'I couldn’t dare do that. For what? Who gains from that?' Rihanna's words from 2019 on why she turned down NFL down for a previous SuperBowl halftime show. So is it strange that she is performing this year? mikefreemanNFL asks.
Rihanna is headlining the 2023 Super Bowl halftime show in Glendale, Arizona, with Apple Music as the new sponsor, the NFL announced.In February for Black History Month, USA TODAY Sports is publishing the series “28 Black Stories in 28 Days.” We examine the issues, challenges and opportunities Black athletes and sports officials continue to face after the nation’s reckoning on race following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. This is the third installment of the series.
In declining to perform in the Super Bowl halftime show, Rihanna was showing support for the players, who along with Kaepernick, were protesting the systemic racism that infiltrates policing and leads to the deaths of so many Black and brown people. Deaths that we have seenSo is it strange that Rihanna is performing in this year's Super Bowl halftime show? Why, yes. Yes it is.
That's because the same conditions the players were protesting still exist. In fact, with the murder of George Floyd in 2020, and the killing of Tyre Nichols, among others, an argument could easily be made that those conditions are worse.
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