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: Jay-Z denied his sitting during the anthem was meant to convey a signal.pic.twitter.com/L8DPWoPg1T
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Jay-Z said he didn’t stand during the national anthem because he “was working,” and said the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow’s diversity and the Botham Jean PSA was the “biggest, loudest protest of all. Given the context, I didn’t have to make a silent protest."https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/news/super-bowl/8550159/jay-z-explains-beyonce-super-bowl-national-anthem-protest …
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: Jay-Z describes how he wasn’t protesting, he was working during the anthem “in artist mode.”pic.twitter.com/nbzgx42Kv2Show this thread
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: Jay-Z uses his daughter, Blue Ivy, as proof he wasn’t protesting. He says because she wasn’t persistently tapping him on the shoulder to ask about the protest it means he wasn’t protesting.pic.twitter.com/OpGHTKG1ztShow this thread
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: Jay-Z suggests he sat during the anthem because “the seats were high.”
He then says he “didn’t have to make a silent protest”
because he had “Lebanese-Colombian Shakira and Puerto Rican JLo” and the “Botham Jean” PSA, claiming “we made the biggest, loudest protest of all.”pic.twitter.com/4j8UCggRAIShow this thread
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NFL contractor Jay-Z’s reasons for sitting during the anthem: 1) I was working. 2) My daughter proves no protest. 3) The stadium seats were too high to stand. 4) No need to silently protest because Shakira and JLo’s identity on stage and my hug the Botham Jean PSA is my protest.pic.twitter.com/BssFgN7YLS
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Billionaires gonna billionaire......
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Working? He loves work more than he loves our country and his country men. Next.
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