Beyoncé and husband Jay-Z have become two of the biggest supporters of Colin Kaepernick, the free agent quarterback who started a firestorm…
in a pre-Super Bowl interview that he could handle the backlash if it meant making a change from within the NFL. “As long as real people are being hurt and marginalized and losing family members, then yes, I can take a couple rounds of negative press,” he said.
“No one is saying [Kaepernick] hasn’t been done wrong,” the rapper continued. “He was done wrong. I would understand if it was three months ago. But it was three years ago and someone needs to say, ‘What do we do now — because people are still dying?’” During this year’s Super Bowl, the NFL sponsored the broadcast of a public service video, the first in a series of PSAs about black men and boys killed by police. In it, retired NFL wide receiver Anquan Boldin discusses the death of his cousin, Corey Jones, in 2015 by a plain-clothed police officer.
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