The conversation regarding the Super Bowl/NFL boycott Colin Kaepernick spurned has breached the classic rock ‘n roll lexicon.
Legendary rock band Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has signed a Change.org petition ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl LIII in hopes the likes of Travis Scott, Big Boi, Maroon 5 and others reconsider lending the league its talents for the upcoming halftime festivities in Atlanta.
“This is my band taking a knee at the end of a gig in Hartford, Connecticut on Sunday 24th of September 2017,” Rogers wrote in a statement that coincided with video of the event referenced.
“We did it in solidarity with San Francisco Quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s gesture of protest against the endemic racism and often deadly force meted out by police departments across this land. It was the third Sunday of Colin Kaepernick’s lock out by the NFL.”
“The message was clear, ‘Shut your mouth, boy!’ Next Sunday will be the 36th Sunday he has been locked out of your national game. This is not a victory for the NFL, it is a defeat, you have denied football fans everywhere the pleasure and the honor of watching one of the greatest quarterbacks who ever played the game, and you have shown your true colors. You can sit in your boardrooms and huff and puff on your cigars in your glass boxes, but your action is a poke in the eye for everything that is decent in America. Colin Kaepernick is an American hero.”
The 75-year-old Waters has long been an activist in the realms of politics, military and disaster relief, all the while reportedly selling more than 250 million records with Pink Floyd.
He concluded the statement by outlining how this particular issue could shape the societal outcome of the nation. As of press time, none of the performers mentioned have swayed on their stance.
“If the USA is to have a future, it is the Colin Kaepernick’s of this world who will lead you there, in fact, it is Colin Kaepernick who is leading you now. My colleagues Maroon 5, Travis Scott and Big Boi are performing during the halftime show at the Super-bowl this coming Sunday, I call upon them to “take a knee” on stage in full sight. I call upon them to do it in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick, to do it for every child shot to death on these mean streets, to do it for every bereaved mother and father and brother and sister.”
“My mother used to say to me, ‘In any situation, there is nearly always a right thing to do, just do it.’ So, there you go my brothers, you are faced with a choice, I’m not saying it will be easy, all the Presidents men, all the huffers and puffers, will be royally pissed off, but, $#@%’em, I call upon you to do it because it’s the right thing to do and because somewhere inside you know it.”
Watch the video of Waters and his band taking the knee down below.
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Fuck racist as Kaep and this moron too. America is fed up with this attention grabbing, race baiting bullshit. BLM was statistically proven to be a lie. No one reps it anymore due to that. I don’t see Kaep or ANYONE taking a knee for the 60% black penal system, or the murders occurring in Chicago. The reason for that Ian simple. It would be a call for real hange hat would demand sacrifice and accountability, not a bunch of soy, beta, cuckolds clapping for some shit that doesn’t make sense, because it’s cool to show solidarity, specially on social media. Trump is in office because of bullshit like this.
You used beta and cuckolds in the same rant….. did you get Brietbart Bingo?
No he got cuckolds from porn hub bitch
Maybe he just has a college education and a vocabulary to match?
I’m guessing you took offense because you read this while drinking your soy latte, combing the internet for someone to fuck your girl while you watch. While filming dude blowing out your ladies, bottom, take a knee please. Hahahahaha. Clown.
English Communist who lives by putting his finger where it is not called, wants to give an intellectual but just wants to draw attention. Wherever he goes, he joins the groups of the left and speaks only bullshit, if he likes politics so much because he has not yet applied for a position? The last time he was in Brazil, he was talking shit about the candidate who was elected by 60% of the Brazilian population and defending a bandit who is imprisoned because of the world’s biggest public money evasion scheme! Anyway, it’s not worth the shit …
He actually makes a living by performing at concerts. He gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a show, which is the opposite of being a communist. Didn’t your fake Paraguay Trump from your cosplay military that is currupt and never does anything, only win by 60% because the man who would have won was put in prison for an apartment he never lived in? That apartment was never signed over to his name or even referenced as a property, yet some judge claimed it was a bribe? Didn’t that same judge give public interviews saying he hated that man before a trial? Isn’t that judge now the minister of Justice under your clown ass, fake trump who is sinking your economy and making Brazil a laughing stock world wide? Sounds real fair to me… I heard a daughter of a Brazilian military officer gets a salary for life if she’s doesn’t marry, and there hasn’t been a war in Brazil for over 100 years. 3rd world idiocracy. Please keep your stupid political bullshit from the 1940’s in your disease ridden country. Brazil has never won a Nobel Prize (Argentina has 5, Chile 1). Over 50% of the population doesn’t have a high school education. I’m guessing that’s you, macaqinho.
Shut up, I stopped reading your comment when you mentioned that Roger Waters is rich so in your feeble mind there’s no way he is a commie. You’re an ignorant retard. It’s called a champagne socialist. Look it up before you comment and make an ass of yourself. Waters is a Corbynista and a remainer. Doubt your ignorant ass would even know what any of that means. Go back to playing your Xbox, boy.
Right. Champagne socialist. I stopped reading YOUR ignorant bullshit the second you even used the term. The point being made was he is an idiot hypocrite. The rest of the comment is about Brazil’s new president. Moron. Maybe you should read something. Get a GED. That your first step towards college, you beta soy breath, cuck moron. The comment actually reflects exactly what your ignorant ass was saying. A “champagne socialist” isn’t a socialist, dummy. They aren’t willing to “share” anything, therefor their opinion is discarded. Like yours. Jackass.
I can’t argue with his logic. Seems spot on. I hope Kaep wins his lawsuit.
Yeah. You’re stupid, of course you can’t. Kaep signed a contract and violated the stipulations. He isn’t winning shit.
Kaep looks pretty healthy and rich for a man who was shot by the police unjustly and fired for not honoring stipulations of a multi million dollar contract. Strange.
I never understood why people blindly follow people, who don’t care about the injustice of other races, hire people who don’t care about the injustice of other races, are friends with people who don’t care about the injustice of other races, and then justify it by calling it fake news, alternative facts, Witch Hunt! Reverse Racism! Liberal Bias!
That’s because most of them, (like yourself,) don’t realize they’re playing into the hands of the people that want to keep it that way.
Those phrases you mention, on the other hand, come from the few. The other side is MUCH louder and works extremely hard to keep you in compliance.
Maroon 5 is not the band to be making a statement against the NFL or police brutality. And they’ve never pretended to be.
Travis Scott is a kid. And although he just had his first arena tour, this is a great look for him to further his career.
Big Boi is a legend who would enjoy the opportunity to perform at the Superbowl in his hometown. I think he’s earned the right to not be criticized for this one.
I’m with Kap, but this isn’t the way to go about showing it.
pretty sure the contract will be voided if they do but at the same time the exposure & media around it would balance out, just salty big boi is douythe show but maybe he has something in store since its the atl & really has nothing to lose imma rock wit em regardless
Fuck Roger Waters the EU slave. Any British man that doesn’t support Brexit is a pansy not worth shit. Keep your nose out of football, you Colon K supporting liberals. If you knew what went down and how his girlfriend ruined his last chance at getting on a team, you would understand why he’s not playing. Reid is playing and he’s an on his knees kok sucker too. It’s just that Eric Reid is better at the game and needed unlike Colon. Nobody wants a benchwarmer with all that baggage. Kap did this to himself.
Please elaborate on your theory about Kap, his girlfriend, etc.
Unleash the MAGAbots!
It’s honestly scary to see how many of you are being brainwashed by politics.
This guy is so focused on identity politics and trump. It’s annoying af and divisive for no reason.
Yo I Love Pink Floyd! If White people Can Do This.Whats Wrong With Y’all Black asses! Stand Up To hen Bend A Knee !
Maroon 5 singer’s last name is Levine. Can you guess the ethnicity? Hint: Not white.
Dude, do your googles. He’s German mixed with Scottish. That’s pretty fuckin white.
Hebrews are mostly white, moron. Madonna converted, she isn’t white anymore?
Crazy, over the rainbow, he’s crazy. He didn’t even pay those school kids he suckered into singing in “The Wall.” Colin Kaepernick was benched due to declining skills and inappropriate behavior. Anyone who reviews his stats and his conduct record during his last couple years in the NFL could easily see that. Of course that’s not how the media depicts it, however, but since when have they been about truth. The NFL has also done plenty during the last couple of years to compromise with the anthem protesters who followed his trend, (which I doubt he intended). Really, when equality isn’t good enough for them, how do you come up with a reasonable compromise. They’ve done everything they can within reason to resolve the situation. When that’s not good enough the wrong isn’t on them. I look forward to seeing Maroon 5 put on a good halftime show. As for Waters, maybe he can make himself useful, and add some bricks to the wall.
Unfortunately I never got to see Pink Floyd together. I did manage to see Roger Waters twice and it was the most fantastic show ever. However, the last show in Houston that I saw turned into the worst Trump bashing session I’ve ever seen. Please leave politics out of music, leave gender, race, color, and all the stupid s***out of our music. You’re British anyway, plus you are filthy rich. What do you really care about what black people in our country go through. Kaepernick is simply a moron. He should have left everything else out of football and just concentrated on football. There’s platforms to voice your opinions, your teammates and your coaches and the whole stadium is there for the game and the game only not your stupid black or white agenda. So Roger, worry about your music and your music only, what you do behind closed doors is entirely up to you.
Kap protested on the biggest platform that he could possibly do it on and believe it or not, he made a difference just like every minority who changed America for the greater good throughout history. Your idea of people voicing their opinions behind closed doors is idiotic and makes you a coward.
He made no difference whatsoever. The only difference he made was give young black people the false illusion that the cops are out to get them, so they should mouth off to them and resist etc, get locked up or shot. No knee for native Americans? No knee for the over one million black men in our prison system? Yeah, those are actual real things to tackle. There would be no excuses to make, and cuckold white folk wouldn’t be able to show false sympathy on Facebook.
Take a Knee and then??? You think police stops shooting?? Only thing this protest is changing is the TV ratings and tickets sales from people boycotting and people turning their TV’s because they are annoyed by people shoving their politics into everything. Who do you thing get hurt from this first?? Athletes? NO! The Owners? No! Its the regular Stadium and Team Employees and depending of the City the majority will be black people. So this protest is not just not helping Black People, it actually damages Black People. So, to all the clebes keep being selfish and drag the Black Community more down to push your political Agenda
I think the cops will stop shooting black people when black people stop shooting black people, and they are no longer 60% of our prison systems. Maybe stop worshiping bling and blaming civil rights and slavery, which didn’t even affect people’s parents now days.
Who gives a fuck what this hack thinks you were thrown outa your own band haha
“Rock royalty vs rap royalty”? I swear this website comes up with the corniest taglines for all their articles.
#fuckaknee
I ain’t bowing for no false cause.
This is only designed to keep us in a victim position and increase their power as overseers.
They could not care less.