Jonathan Gentry, a black man and outspoken critic of President Obama, Al Sharpton, the Black Lives Matter Movement and others, is now speaking out about Beyoncé’s halftime performance during Super Bowl 50.
Gentry said, “Let’s cut the crap.”
As Western Journal has reported, Beyoncé’s performance during halftime showed her dancers dressed in Black Panther Party style clothing and involved lyrics from a song in which the music video depicted police as targeting the black community in a statement reading, “stop shooting us.” The dancers were also photographed with raised arms, fists clinched as was customary for the Black Panther Party.
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Gentry apparently considers Beyonce’s performance hypocrisy and pointed to the real reason Beyoncé had her dancers dress like the Black Panther Party.
“I do know what she was doing,” Gentry said. He pointed out it was 50 years ago when the Black Panther Party was started by Heuwy Newton and Geronimo Pratt in 1966. With this being the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl, Beyoncé used the moment to call attention to the controversial group, to Black Lives Matter, and to race issues involving the police.
Gentry called it a double standard saying the black community cannot have it both ways. “There is a huge double standard that we do not acknowledge and that we do not address,” Gentry said. “You can’t tell one group (to) sit down, shut up, what you do is racist and offensive to me, put your confederate flag away … while we want to parade and shove how we feel down everyone else’s throat.”
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Posted by Johnathan Gentry on Monday, February 8, 2016
Gentry asked how the black community would feel if another group (implied white racist group) had taken to the field to stand up for their heritage. He stated the black community would be “pissed,” calling President Obama on the phone, protesting and expressing overall outrage.
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“What she did was foolish,” Gentry said. “How can you be anti-police when a hundred of them escorted you to the Super Bowl yesterday Beyonce? How does that make sense? That’s just not logical. How can you show that kind of disrespect?
“But spiritually speaking, what you’re doing is sowing seeds into the young generation that sees that. They internalize that. It was wicked. I do know what she was doing and it was wrong.”
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