Former San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick had a few words for JAY-Z and Beyoncé who attended the Super Bowl LIV in Miami Gardens on Sunday (February 2). During the national anthem, which was performed by pop singer Demi Lovato, the famous couple was filmed sitting alongside their daughter Blue Ivy instead of standing with the rest of the crowd.
Kaepernick, who famously started kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality in 2016, called out Hov in one of his recent Instagram Stories.
“I thought we were ‘past kneeling’ tho,” he wrote across a screenshot of a TMZ Sports article about the couple’s conduct at the game. It was coupled with a “thinking emoji.”
Kaepernick is referring to an August 2019 interview in which Jay attempted to justify his partnership with the National Football League. Many viewed his alignment with the NFL as a slap in Kaepernick’s face. When asked about it, he replied, “I think we’ve moved past kneeling. I think it’s time for action.”Hov and his Roc Nation imprint linked up with the NFL last August to help the league’s social justice efforts and bolster its music industry connections. As part of their duties, Roc Nation was asked to act as the NFL’s “live music entertainment strategist” and consult on productions such as the Super Bowl halftime show.
Jay and Beyoncé sitting down during the national anthem stirred up plenty of controversy. Ahead of the Super Bowl, the Roc Nation mogul sat down with the New York Times and again defended his collaboration with the NFL. Although he insisted he was still fighting for the same things as Kaep, he said it was time to move beyond that.
“As long as real people are being hurt and marginalized and losing family members, then yes, I can take a couple rounds of negative press,” he said. “No one is saying he hasn’t been done wrong. He was done wrong. I would understand if it was three months ago. But it was three years ago and someone needs to say, ‘What do we do now — because people are still dying?'”
Watch the video of Beyoncé and Jay at the Super Bowl above.
Rly tho who gaf about colin kaep and his opinions.. failed washed up QB had 2 keep his name in the headlines and extort the nfl for a check..
Football is wack anyway. Bunch of big retards jumping on top of each other. Gay shit
Exactly. And wearing girls leggings too smfh
They had a social awareness commercial on during the game last night. At this point, this guy has lost his original message and is starting to sound crazy. Like Freddie Gibbs said, he settled with the NFL, so at this point, it’s a wrap. Stop bringing other people who actually have probably faced way more real oppression than you ever did into your bitter campaign because they’re actually trying to get shit done.
Yeah we pass kneeling nigga we straight sitting down now F that,
Jay-Z always been a sellout and a fraud. He’s been nothin but an opportunist since some of the greatest left the game and left a void so he can seize the moment to make himself a name by association using other’s fame and success (kanye, pharrell, beyonce…). Back in the 90s when death row, bad boys and queensbridge were running the game jay-z wasn’t even considered a top 10 rapper. He’s always been an overrated rapper to me. Not a bad rapper but overrated. Now he’s using this NFL platform to benefit some kind of exposure and throw kaepernick under the bus cause his crusade against the NFL harms his interests. FOH! You can’t have it both ways mothafucka! Either you assume your partnership with the NFL to the fullest and stand your punk ass up during the national anthem or you stay seated and keeps your self away from those NFL deals cause the league is obviously not supporting the civil rights when it comes to the black community… whatever fuck jay-z !
Holy shit finally someone with the same opinions as me. Jay’s media team has got these kids so brainwashed they think 4.44 is a classic. He wasn’t considered anywhere near the best in the 90s, everyone knew that at the time, and his song with original flavour was beyond trash compared to Nas, Pac etc at the time. Nowhere near the top in the 90s, second best to Eminem/Shady records and later lil Wayne/young money in the 2000s, and nowhere near the top on the 10s. How this man is considered the best ever is beyond me.
Me too bro he was nowhere near the best i dont know what the fuck people were hearing out of his mouth to even think that even. When pac and big died he still was nowhere near the best gtfoh
If every player that felt that way, and stood behind him, and stayed kneeling then it WOULD matter, Kap will be more relevant til this day! They can’t fire EVERYBODY! The football world would be in a frenzy!!
I never stood for the anthem, even as a kid it felt wrong. Respect to Kap! What he did was to live MLKs legacy. It’s non violent direct action aimed at making the white population confront the gap between the ideals of this country & the lived experience of black Americans.
Well arent u just a dope awesome american rebel!
MLK JR did everything he did through LOVE. Kap does everything he does through HATRED. His main purpose is to divide the country, not unite it. MLK JR wanted to united Americans. Complete opposites. And Kap is no revolutionary. That’s a fucking joke.
Jay z is a fraud and a Uncle Tom he only bends when it benefits him to get the lime light and I feel like our country has turned into a bunch of sensitive crybabies and drama queens everything happening has been happening and will always happened social media has just hyped it up it sad what happens at times but unfortunately it’s a part of life
Fuck kaep wanna be Martin luther king jr. Ass he don’t speak for all black people. We appreciate what kaep did but he not in charge of shit. STFU
MLK JR died so you could go to public school and learn how to write more coherent sentences than that! Do him proud!
mlk died because crackas assassinated him…stfu
Ya know, maybe, just maybe, people would be a little less judgmental and racist If you’d stop calling them names? I guess u don’t want to be respected though.
WTH…everyone sitting in that box..white folks included are sitting down. Not sure why this is an issue. Kap needs to let it go.
Are folks going to finally wise up and admit that Nessa messed up Kaep’s NFL comeback?
From the start I’ve been of the mind that kaep should be able to kneel, but this is all starting to feel like nothing more than attention seeking. He wants everything to be a spectacle that he is at the center of. If he comes back to the league he gets to set the terms, he wants the huge media covered practice but then decides last minute that he wants to do it at a highschool with his own film crew…for what? Just so he can look like he turned the tables and he is making the decisions. Its all trap doors and mirrors at this point.
Who cares
He’s already old news. He gon play for the New York Jabroni’s in the xfl next year yaheard
Kap is a fucking joke now. He’s doing anything to call attention to himself. How does he know they weren’t standing because of religious beliefs? And kneeling and sitting are two different things. No matter how you feel about Jay, if you can’t see that Kap is a fucking joke now, the joke is truly on you.
Yeah, they weren’t kneeling, Colin. We’re past that
Colin Cut-those-naps is still seeking publicity stunts. This story is getting tired. ? #punchline
Both are racist anti americans