Super Bowl 57 is the Blackest, most woke Super Bowl ever. Sorry haters! - Opinion

[In It to Win It]

USA Today via Yahoo News

The Blackest, most woke Super Bowl ever — can’t believe I wrote that since this is the Republican NFL, but here we are — started by again featuring the Black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” this time performed by Sheryl Lee Ralph.

“America only has ONE NATIONAL ANTHEM,” tweeted Lauren Boebert, leaning heavily on her all-caps key. “Why is the NFL trying to divide us by playing multiple!? Do football, not wokeness.”

Then Rihanna performed at halftime. Despite once saying she wouldn’t perform in the Super Bowl halftime show because of the way the NFL treated Colin Kaepernick and protesting players, she was back, and make no mistake, Rihanna is one of the Blackest, proudest performers of our time.

But wait, it gets Blacker.

[DURHAM D]

1. The fact they are in Arizona makes it even better. nt

[kacekwl]

2. If only I

knew what woke meant.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. Rebranded "Political Correctness" whining and bitching.

[newdayneeded]

6. it's the new "liberal"

The right is doing the same playbook making a derogatory name for us.

[Deuce]

8. I believe the original usage is in ref to "Scottsboro Boys" in Alabama...

Advice to African Americans traveling through Alabama.

“I advise everybody to be a little careful when they go down through there,” Lead Belly said of Alabama. “Just stay woke. Keep your eyes open.”

[Sancho]

11. Me too...

[Lunabell]

3. Omg, the comments.

Right wingers are so butt-hurt about a little bit of black empowerment.

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[Polybius]

7. "and make no mistake, Rihanna is one of the Blackest, proudest performers of our time."

Huh? I had to look up her heritage. I honestly wasn't sure.

[tornado34jh]

17. She is from Barbados, in the far eastern Caribbean

There tends to be a bunch of different, sometimes broad terms for various ethnic groups in the Caribbean. However, much of the Caribbean is of some sort of African/Latino descent

[malaise]

32. Born in Barbados

Mother Barbadian, father Guyanese.
Sheryl Lee Ralph born in Waterbury, Connecticut, the daughter of Stanley Ralph, a college professor, and Ivy Ralph O.D., a Jamaican fashion designer and the creator of the kariba suit. She has a younger brother, actor and comedian Michael Ralph.

[judesedit]

9. I know there were 2 black quarterbacks. It was a great game.

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I thought. I'm not the most knowledgeable, but I was on the edge of my seat. I think Mahomes deserved MVP, too. I missed the opening of the game, so missed "Lift Every Voice" unfortunately. Rihanna did good, as always. I liked the dancers and the fireworks, too.

[DENVERPOPS]

20. LOL

The truth is, that if they took all black players off of Pro and College sports team, the games wouldn't be near as much fun watching......

[Abolishinist]

27. Sorry, I have it on good sources that one of them was biracial.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217638375

[judesedit]

29. Ok. Half black. Still cool. Great game I thought. Field sucked though.

I think that was a first.

[Abolishinist]

30. To be clear, I absolutely LOVED the game!

I've been a Chiefs fan since the Len Dawson days. A quick read of the other thread will show that my comment was tongue-in-cheek,
Mahomes ID's as black so that's fine with me, I couldn't care less. They were both Black, much to the chagrin of a few of the posters on the aforementioned thread.

To me, it was truly one of the most exciting Super Bowls ever.

[judesedit]

33. Me, too. I was on the edge of my seat. I just mentioned that fact

as an addition to the original post. Just thought it was interesting. As far as I'm concerned we are all basically mutts. lol. We are a mixture of races.

I wanted the Chiefs to win, too, but wouldn't mention it to my northern relatives and friends lol. I'm from south Jersey. A Steeler's fan all my life. Dad born in Pittsbugh, Mom in Philadelphia lol Anyway, I think the Chiefs outplayed the Eagles. I really hadn't been keeping up on it, but the Eagles did real well this year. When I joined the game at halftime, it was a super close game. An exciting one.

Happy Valentine's Day, Abolishinist

[ruet]

10. I Dunno.

It felt like a big Faux News commercial to me.

[Cha]

12. boboIdiot.. the GD Fucking Gaslit

Divisive POS!

[tishaLA]

13. They want everything to be part of their culture war

like we don't have real problems. But instead of that, it's twitter and Hunter Biden and the SB and Dr Seuss and Mr Potato Head and M&Ms and pop stars.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. Not a hater, definitely not a hater, but just curious...

why can't it be just a simple football game??? Get rid of half time hoopla... And commercials it's just a game??? To me anyway . Carry on!

[In It to Win It]

15. Too much money to be made

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. So what tho? You can still just freaking enjoy a simple

Game no?

[In It to Win It]

21. Not disagreeing with you

I'm just answering the question.

There will always be a half time hoopla because some company gets to pay a shit-ton of money to slap their name on the halftime show. No network would air the Super Bowl without selling slots of ads for a shit-ton of money, and so on...

People can just enjoy the game. However, the powers that be refuse to let people just enjoy a simple game.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. I know, just one person, but I did. Paid zero attention

To ads. Half way to half time because I like her, and we did just fine.

Not trying to argue with you by any means, but believe that hyper attention to all the BS, it is waning. No worries, ads will catch up

[Justice matters.]

25. It is broadcasted all around the world.

A billion or so watch just one game per year (including in bars and restaurants) all throughout the American Capitalist Empire.

[GenThePerservering]

34. It's not "just a game"

it's an EVENT, so it's got all of the event detritus, good and bad.

Let people have their once a year hoopla and think of it this way - it pissed off Bimbo Boebert and that attention whore MTG, so there is an upside.

(Not a pro football fan, but I understand sport in general and often what it stands for, good and bad).

[SergeStorms]

16. Like slavery didn't divide the nation?

Every time "Bim" Boebert opens her mouth a tsunami of stupid rushes forth.

Give it up, Bang-bang. You're not clever enough to appeal to 50% of republicans, so you can forget about any Democrats. 🙄

[tornado34jh]

19. A lot of the anger is against the Lift Every Voice

Sometimes called the "Black national anthem." They hate the fact it is being used more frequently, they think there should not be women in the military, and basically they hate the in your face attitude against people who hate wokeness. They always say politics should be out of sport. Never mind the fact that sports and politics have been intertwined for as long as sports have been around, but excuse me, bastard, weren't they doing just that when Trump was in office? Last I checked, the whole kneeling thing on the national anthem started because of you! I'm sorry, I don't want to hear them bitching about it. If they hate it so much, go watch your pathetic NASCAR then, where it basically is all-white. This is getting pathetic.

[In It to Win It]

23. IMO, they don't have to see politics. They choose to

Even when no one is kneeling or protesting in some way, they find politics in something or insert it where none exists.

[tornado34jh]

24. I guess I am just sick and tired of hearing them complaining

Depending on the source, the NFL has up to 70% of players who are black, the NBA up to 73% are black. How many African-American players do you see in the MLB, NHL, or NASCAR? Not many. It just seems very telling that the sports they complain of being "woke" have the most players that are African American. What does that tell you?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

26. Not sure. What? That big time sports can't rectify?

[tornado34jh]

28. Think about why they seem to talk a lot about these sports in particular

Remember the whole kneeling during the national anthem controversy when Colin Kaepernick did it? These same people, along with Trump, wanted to fire anyone who did that. But these are the same people screaming "woke" and say politics should not be in sports. Well gee, I wonder who started the whole thing. But the point is, all the time when the "Black National Anthem" gets played, they get in a knot about it, saying we should only do the "Star Spangled Banner" even though it in of itself was written when slavery was still going on. By the way, the SSB was based on a song called "To Anacreon in Heaven". I am just really really tired of hearing them complain every year when the Super Bowl goes on. Why are they watching it then?

[Samrob]

35. If they stop hating long enough to listen to the words, they would really go nut! nt

[tornado34jh]

36. Well, they wouldn't do it even if you tried to tell them

But again, it is like a cult. They will believe whatever their "leader" believes.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. For this thread

Link to tweet

[pfitz59]

37. I think the Kelce brothers might dispute that.

And the owners of the teams