Almost everyone in attendance at Hard Rock Stadium during Super Bowl Super Bowl LIV on Sunday, February 2, stood while Demi Lovato sang the national anthem, but Jay-Z and his wife Beyonce remained seated.
The move puzzled former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick because when Jay attended a press conference in August 2019 to talk about his and Roc Nation's multiyear partnership with the NFL, to enhance the NFL's live game experiences and to amplify the league's social justice efforts he said: "I think we've passed kneeling. I think it's time to go to actionable items."
Kaepernick famously chose to start kneeling during the national anthem in 2016, to call attention to the issues of racial inequality and police brutality.
Many believe that got him blackballed by the NFL, even though he was/is good enough to at least earn a backup role on one of the 32 teams.
Kaepernick reacted to Jay and Beyonce sitting Sunday In an Instagram Story re-post of a friend who tagged him, He shared an image from a TMZ story about Hov and Bey's actions during the anthem with the words, "I thought we were 'past kneeling' tho?" written on the picture.
What do you think of Jay sitting during the national anthem. Is he being a hypocrite?
Jay-Z and Beyonce sat during the National Anthem at the #SuperBowl pic.twitter.com/Cxj2RNF1xX
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) February 3, 2020
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