Atlanta, GA – The dialog relating to the Tremendous Bowl/NFL boycott Colin Kaepernick spurned has breached the basic rock ‘n roll lexicon.
Legendary rock band Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has signed a Change.org petition forward Sunday’s Tremendous Bowl LIII in hopes the likes Travis Scott, Huge Boi, Maroon 5 and others rethink lending the league its skills for the upcoming halftime festivities in Atlanta.
“That is my band taking a knee on the finish a gig in Hartford, Connecticut on Sunday 24th September 2017,” Rogers wrote in a press release that coincided with video the occasion referenced.
“We did it in solidarity with San Francisco Quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s gesture protest towards the endemic racism and ten lethal pressure meted out by police departments throughout this land. It was the third Sunday Colin Kaepernick’s lock out by the NFL.”
“The message was clear, ‘Shut your mouth, boy!’ Subsequent Sunday would be the 36th Sunday he has been locked out your nationwide sport. This isn’t a victory for the NFL, it’s a defeat, you will have denied soccer followers all over the place the pleasure and the honour watching one the best quarterbacks who ever performed the sport, and you’ve got proven your true colours. You’ll be able to sit in your boardrooms and huff and puff in your cigars in your glass packing containers, however your motion is a poke within the eye for every thing that’s first rate in America. Colin Kaepernick is an American hero.”
The 75-year-old Waters has lengthy been an activist within the realms politics, army and catastrophe reduction, all of the whereas reportedly promoting greater than 250 million information with Pink Floyd.
He concluded the assertion by outlining how this explicit situation might form the societal consequence the nation. As press time, none the performers talked about have swayed on their stance.
If the USA is to have a future, it’s the Colin Kaepernick’s this world who will lead you there, in reality, it’s Colin Kaepernick who’s main you now. My colleagues Maroon 5, Travis Scott and Huge Boi are performing throughout the halftime present on the Tremendous-bowl this coming Sunday, I name upon them to “take a knee” on stage in full sight. I name upon them to do it in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick, to do it for each little one shot to demise on these imply streets, to do it for each bereaved mom and father and brother and sister.”
“My mom used to say to me, ‘In any scenario, there may be almost all the time a proper factor to do, simply do it.’ So, there you go my brothers, you might be confronted with a alternative, I’m not saying will probably be straightforward, all of the Presidents males, all of the huffers and puffers, can be royally pissed f, however, $#@%’em, I name upon you to do it as a result of it’s the precise factor to do and since someplace inside you recognize it.”
Watch the video Waters and his band taking the knee down beneath.