“F**K COLIN KAEPERNICK!”

David Saint Vincent
5 min readFeb 4, 2022
The Guardian

In light of recent events, it is brutally ironic that the Super Bowl halftime show this year will be a triple ‘X’ orgy of Blackness. And the message the NFL intends to send is loud and clear: F**k Colin Kaepernick. Of course they could not have foreseen that their big middle finger to Colin would be overshadowed by an even bigger bird being shot at them by former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores, who just sued them in federal court for being the country-club-closeted-bigots that we all know they are, but conveniently pretend they aren’t because that damned game is so much fun to watch.

But their ‘f**k you’ message to Colin will be fired off with expert precision anyway because the NFL is a multi-billion-dollar enterprise with access to the most expensive and talented messengers in the world. This particular message is being crafted and delivered to America and the world by Sean Carter, better known as Jay Z. And this guy is nothing if not a master messenger for the brand of Black culture America is hooked on harder than the crack cocaine he says he used to sell.

Remember when Jay Z stepped into a partnership with the NFL a few years ago to fill some creative role, that never existed before, that had something to do with coordinating musical entertainment? This was right after Rhianna, the most successful of all Jay Z protégés, had told the NFL quite publicly to go f**k…

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