Super Bowl fans whine over Kendrick Lamar's halftime show and 'DEI'
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X users are calling out Kendrick Lamar's halftime show performance for not having one white performer on stage with some saying it's the worst halftime show they've ever seen.

Lamar filled the stage with performers, but none of them seemed to be white. While most may not even have noticed, some particularly upset users took to X to express their frustration.

“There’s no diversity in the half time show. DEI only goes one direction and this horrible halftime show perfectly represents why DEI needs to die,” a user wrote.

  • 2ugly2liveEnglish
    13•8 hours ago

    Was never an issue when ya’ll were pouring acid to get us out of the pool. Or when we couldn’t go to “white only” businesses. Or schools.

    A white performer can have an entire stage of nothing but white dancers and they wouldn’t say boo, but the black performer does the same, suddenly they see it as unfair. 🙄

    • @[email protected]English
      4•3 hours ago

      Was never an issue when ya’ll were pouring acid to get us out of the pool

      Hadn’t heard about this one

      https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/motel-manager-pouring-acid-water-black-people-swam-pool-1964/

      The motel manager, Jimmy Brock, in an effort to break up the party, poured a bottle of muriatic acid into the pool, hoping the swimmers would become scared and leave.

      One swimmer, who knew that the ratio of acid to pool water was so great that the acid was no longer a threat, drank some of the pool water to calm the other swimmers’ fears.

      It did not scare the swimmers, though it seems like it was effective in making the protesters at least nervous — the amount of acid to the amount of water being so small it was mostly safe—and so a cop jumped in to arrest people.

      Ah that’s why. Still a dick move, but definitely not the horror show it is intended to sound like, and not as often as it’s intended to sound, being “once” and all.

      An off-duty policeman, Officer Henry Billitz, jumped in—except for his shoes still fully clothed—in an attempt at dragging them out himself; he beat them up as well.

      Yeah that’s about what I’d expect.

      In 2007, aged 85, Jimmy Brock died at his St. Augustine home.

      Well, good news, looks like everyone who threw acid into pools to scare black people 61yr ago is dead! At least there’s that. That whole “policeman” thing otoh…

    • WesDym
      2•7 hours ago

      @2ugly2live @ByteOnBikes Yep! I think a big part of this is the visually organized aspect of it. It touches something deep in observers. Historically, choreography was related to military training. I think that racially uncomfortable people feel subconsciously threatened by large, well-organized performances by non-whites. I know that may sound dumb, but I really believe it.

      The Superbowl has had such displays by all-white groups for many years, and who’s heard any noise about that?