Jay-Z Is Fighting the Good Fight With the Bad Bunny Super Bowl Pick

“Jay-Z is simply a comic guy.”

That’s what someone connected X said regarding another tweet saying that White Christian Nationalists are going to suffer it over the quality that Bad Bunny was picked to execute astatine the Super Bowl. And of course, they were right: jokes flew, memes were made. One Bad Bunny instrumentality page posted a screenshot of 1 of his performances with the closed captions saying, “speaking non-english, singing in non-english.”

Then determination was the different broadside of the spectrum where I saw someone replying to aggregate tweets referring to the Puerto Rican superstar as “Speedy Gonzalez,” the benignant of old-school racism that you can’t assistance but chuckle astatine erstwhile you travel crossed it. My radical chats blew up erstwhile the quality was official, because astir an hr prior certain euphony news social media accounts did their best Woj impression and spoiled the announcement with some of us not yet acceptable to telephone it, even if betting markets had Bunny arsenic the favorite.

Conspiracy theorists and laymen alike assumed it would beryllium Taylor Swift because of her caller engagement with Kansas City Chiefs prima Travis Kelce and due to the fact that of fan theories based connected hints she supposedly made during her caller quality connected Kelce’s New Heights podcast.Some said it was a no-brainer to person a safer, whiter pick, especially aft this drawstring of hip-hop leaning popular stars, and particularly aft Kendrick Lamar’s politically charged show during past year’s Super Bowl performance.

It’s hard not to talk politics erstwhile it comes to this pick; my conversations Sunday night when the quality broke immediately went there. Jay’s narration with the NFL has been blistery and cold depending connected who you speech to: He’s been heavily criticized by immoderate due to the fact that they consciousness similar helium co-opted Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling protest, backlash that led to his unfortunate “I deliberation we person moved past kneeling” remark during a property conference announcing the woody alongside NFL commissioner...