Roger Waters is seemingly extra for the tradition than Travis Scott.
The Tremendous Bowl half time present sparked a complete lot controversy this yr. Whereas Maroon 5 is gearing as much as take the stage with Travis Scott and Big Boi, the NFL initially had a troublesome time touchdown performers for the occasion. Cardi B turned down the Tremendous Bowl in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick. Whereas it is uncertain if this yr’s performers have any approach exhibiting their assist for the blackballed quarterback, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters is urging Travis Scott, Huge Boi and Maroon 5 to #TakeAKnee throughout their efficiency.
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Roger Waters is exhibiting his assist for Kaep and desires the Tremendous Bowl halftime performers to indicate their solidarity through the present. Waters shared a video on Fb his band taking a knee for Colin Kaepernick throughout a live performance.
“That is my band taking a knee on the finish a gig in Hartford, Connecticut on Sunday 24th September 2017. 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,” he wrote. “That is my band taking a knee on the finish a gig in Hartford, Connecticut on Sunday 24th September 2017. 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.”
Waters defined additional that Kaepernick and others who advocate for change like him are the long run America and the world at massive. He ended his submit by calling upon Maroon 5, Travis Scott and Huge Boi to indicate their assist for Kaep even when it means dealing with a critical quantity backlash from the general public.
“My colleagues Maroon 5, Travis Scott and Huge Boi are performing through 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 youngster 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 state of affairs there may be practically at all times a proper factor to do, simply do it.” So, there you go my brothers, you’re confronted with a alternative, I’m not saying will probably be simple, all of the Presidents males, all of the huffers and puffers, shall 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.”
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