How to replace Chuck Schumer as leader.

Worth watching. History repeating itself. Watch till the end! 🙏

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Please read this post from the bottom up. I didn’t know Bluesky has a limit like twitter used to have, but the thought is there!

Because if this performance didn’t just fail to move you, but actually angered you—if you couldn’t even engage with the questions it raised—then yes, you probably are.

So if your reaction today is to angrily post about how much you hated it, maybe the real question you should be asking is: Am I letting racism shape my everyday life?

It forces us to confront things we might not want to. It asks us to sit with discomfort, to question our assumptions, to reflect on what it means to be American, Black, powerful, vulnerable, rebellious, and compliant.

when they say they want less Blackness in the performance—what they’re really saying is: Yes, entertain us. Play for us. Give us your talent, your speed, your strength. But don’t be yourself. And keep that Black stuff out of here. And that’s the point of great art.

It’s a league that is 53% Black. Only about 23% of the players are white. Both of the starting quarterbacks were Black. The game itself is built on Black athleticism, Black culture, and Black bodies. So when people get mad about a halftime show that leans into that reality—

But here she was, in 2025, doing it again—this time on her own terms, unapologetically. That moment was about power—who gets to wield it, who gets punished for it, and how narratives shift depending on who is telling the story. And let’s be real about what the Super Bowl is.

It was a direct reclamation of a moment from her own past. When she won Olympic gold in 2012, she celebrated with that same dance, and the backlash was swift and brutal. She was criticized in a way white athletes never would have been, framed as inappropriate, defiant, and even criminal.

The dancers, clad in red, white, and blue, arranged themselves into the American flag, a powerful visual of both unity and contradiction. Then, Serena Williams stepped onto the stage and hit the Crip Walk, a move that holds deep meaning in Black culture. This wasn’t random.

It was a masterclass in using the biggest stage in America to say something real. From the moment the performance opened with Samuel L. Jackson as Uncle Sam—a living embodiment of the American establishment—you were being invited into something deeper than a flashy stadium show.

Because what Lamar did wasn’t just a performance—it was high art. It was storytelling, from a Pullitzer Prize winning author. It was a reflection of what our society demands from Black men and women, what it permits, and what it punishes.

If You Hated Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show, Ask Yourself Why* Today, the internet is buzzing with reactions to Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance, and if your main takeaway is “I hated it,” I think it’s worth asking yourself a deeper question: why did it make you uncomfortable?

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