fiancee's news song and video formation
has been deemed a black power anthem as
well as an endorsement for the black
lives matter movement in a timely
release before February is Black History
Month as well as her performance in the
Superbowl now the video is chock-full of
powerful imagery some showing her on top
of a police car in a flooded New Orleans
there's other images as it slowly sinks
throughout the video images of Martin
Luther King graffiti saying stop
shooting us well that seems pretty clear
yeah as well as a super powerful image
of a young child in a hoodie sort of
dancing in front of these New Orleans
cops and then eventually having them put
their hands up in the you know don't
shoot me hands up movement now it's also
a celebration of black culture in itself
of Beyonce's own southern roots and
embrace of them that contrast the dated
offensive narrative that when a person
becomes successful they should shun
their history and where they came from
the lyrics mentioned things such as afro
she says that you can't take the country
out of her and she also talks about her
affinity for cornbread and collard
greens so this video was released a day
before her Super Bowl performance and
then you can see an image here of the
Super Bowl performance Beyonce's backup
dancers were dressed in all black with
black berets and afros reminiscent of
the way members of the Black Panther
Party dressed in the 1960s they even
raised their fists something very
similar to the Black Panther movement I
love this uh and I think what she's
doing here is powerful so syncing the
New Orleans cop car it of course can
make some people mad right oh how dare
you say she's not respecting the police
I remember some officers during
Hurricane Katrina were charged literally
with shooting at black people trying to
escape the flooding right on bridges as
they were trying to cross over to
predominantly white areas they would get
shot so you'll excuse people if they're
slightly mad about that
yeah and now be honestly could have
played it safe and not made allusions to
that or two hands up where she and a lot
of people can take that kid dancing and
then the cops putting their hands up as
we're flipping the narrative yeah and
you need to put your hands up and
that'll frighten a lot of people right
and she say no but we're the ones
getting shot so hence the sign don't
shoot us right hence the reference to
the Black Panthers taking the power back
and so I loved it I mean that is some
really really strong it takes a certain
amount of risk and in entertainment
you're constantly told don't take any
risk don't offend anyone it might
jeopardize a couple of dollars here or
there and here's Beyonce saying I don't
give a damn and she's certainly rich
enough to do that and buried into the
songs probably most people unfortunately
won't notice and but but even if it's
subtly influence people in the right
direction
fantastic more power to her ya know and
Anchor Tina's a Katrina excuse me as
something that's very very important for
Beyonce in fact her and jay-z have
donated quietly seven million dollars to
the effort following the hurricane so
that's really that's so quiet I didn't
even know ya know exactly and so I think
and they've donated I think a million
and a half to the black lives matter
movement so this is something that's
very close to her heart and this is one
of her most politically charged videos
and obviously a lot of people are
celebrating this and applauding her for
making this movement especially people
within the black lives matter movement
but some people at a particular network
may disagree with her stance here as
well as her bringing it to the Superbowl
platform in fact on Monday Mayor Rudy
Giuliani commented on Fox News saying
the halftime show I thought was
ridiculous anyway I don't know what the
heck it was a bunch of people bouncing
around and all strange things it was
terrible
this is football not Hollywood and I
thought it was really outrageous that
she used it as a platform to attack
police officers who are the people who
protect her and protect us and keep us
alive so I get where he's coming from
but obviously her movement is a lot more
necessary right now in this movement and
especially on the platform of the Super
Bowl so the Super Bowl is the most
viewed sports event in sports
right and the NFL fan base is 77% white
and the majority of those people are
also affluent so it's like rich white
people who do need to hear this message
if they're not getting it from somewhere
else so I think it's important that she
brought it to this stage yet that's why
they're mad yeah and what a nonsensical
comment this is not Hollywood what are
you talking about the whole thing's
entertainment football's entertainments
musics entertainment of course it's
Hollywood it's all in the same genre and
in his comments were even more
disrespectful
he said ironically that the black
community needs to quote build up
respect for police officers that sounds
like know your role
know your place and Beyonce it is in
effect saying no this is my role this is
my place so I have accumulated this
power through the success I've had an
entertainment and I'm going to use it
right so if that makes you uncomfortable
well that's your problem not mine and
and she is doing all the right things in
terms of if you have a person who's
built this platform you use it for good
a lot of athletes did back in the 1960s
so whether it's Kareem abdul-jabbar or
Bill Walton who was white who said we're
going to stand up against Vietnam we're
going to stand up for civil rights for
African Americans and so if you want to
watch us play basketball you like us
well I got a message for you stop
beating up on black people and and so
which brings us all the way back from
the Black Panthers Julianne hates the
Black Panther is he you know talk to
sparingly about them and in that
interview but he always does anywhere
they always use it as like all Black
Panthers they're the worst but
understand what the Black Panthers
originally were why they were set up in
the first place because it was the 1960s
right and black people were
systematically discriminated against far
beyond what is today and today is
already pretty bad right but if you
haven't read anything about the 1960s
you don't know how people were still
getting murdered for not knowing the
role and and lynched etcetera and the
civil rights workers that were killed by
the Klan yes the Klan was still around
and was incredibly powerful in some
portions the country the Black Panthers
said hey listen I
Second Amendment right to weapons
weapons are used against me and I'm
going to use these weapons not
offensively but for this intended
purpose self-protection as the founding
fathers intended so when they did that
white people flipped out and so everyone
is like all about God the Black Panthers
as black people with guns
now the NRA should be on their side it
turns out they weren't shocking so the
Black Panthers took over a State
Building once now let me show you how
differently when then when a certain
Bundy militia take over a federal
building today they went into the
California State House and they had
weapons at the time it was perfectly
legal for them to bring weapons into the
Statehouse nonetheless everybody went
crazy didn't take it over like okay they
didn't take out any of the weapons they
didn't threaten anybody
unlike the militia guys today right and
but people were so disconcerted by the
idea that black people came in the
Statehouse with weapons that they
immediately threw them out from the
building and the and the Black Panthers
walked out they didn't resist it they in
fact they got arrested even though they
were technically perfectly legal what
they had done right afterwards the NRA
petitioned California to change the law
so that they couldn't carry weapons
anywhere they liked wait a minute I
thought that I was always in favor of
weapons everywhere I thought a good guy
with a gun could stop a bad guy with a
gun turns out when that guy is black
they don't consider him a good guy
and you know who signed that into law in
California the governor at the time
Ronald Reagan so the Black Panthers are
as originally conceived and at some
point it cops why of course despise the
Black Panthers
there were several confrontations and
some of them went a ryan in direction
they should not have gotten it so that's
what everybody seizes upon right but the
original cause of the Black Panthers was
we're gonna take the power back if you
say I got a second Amendment right I got
a second women right and I and I'm going
to use it for self-defense
right and and and at that time they were
the reaction was so overwhelming against
it they had to pass laws taking away
second Amendment rights
so now Beyonce's saying hey you know
what we're getting shot again right
right and it's a lot of powerless kids
whether they're in st. Louis they're in
New Orleans there is Chicago they're in
New York whoever wherever they happen to
be well I got a little bit of power and
I'm going to use it and and I'm at least
going to put that message out there that
is fantastic nicely done