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For the first hour, not a single anti-Beyoncé protester turned up to the anti-Beyoncé protest outside the National Football League headquarters in New York.
“There are no haters here to hate on,” said Mary Pryor, organizer of a pro-Beyoncé and Black Lives Matter counter-protest.
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Prompted by an Eventbrite event – which, as the Daily Beast noted, doesn’t appear to have been started by an actual protest group but just by a single person – police cordoned off some of Park Avenue in anticipation of people protesting against Beyoncé’s Super Bowl half-time performance of her black pride song Formation, which featured dancers dressed as Black Panther activists.
Instead, about 30 pro-Beyoncé and Black Lives Matter supporters waited, holding signs proclaiming “Get information” (lyrics from Beyoncé’s Formation “get information/get in formation”) and “Pro black doesn’t mean anti white”.
At 9am, Tim Winterhalter turned up dressed in a New York Giants jersey for the anti-Beyoncé side.
“To be honest, I didn’t even watch the half-time show,” Winterhalter said. But he said he had seen the news coverage and the Eventbrite page and wanted to come “check everything out”, as he was annoyed that the Super Bowl had become political.
“This is a football game. If you want to have something with politics, you don’t have to do it on a football field,” Winterhalter said.
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“Look at this, man! I’m loving this,” he added as people crowded around him with cameras and mics.
But as more protesters surrounded Winterhalter asking him what exactly he was protesting against, he claimed he was simply a bystander who was “passing through”.
“There are no haters here to hate on,” said Mary Pryor, organizer of a pro-Beyoncé and Black Lives Matter counter-protest.
Beyoncé unleashes Black Panthers homage at Super Bowl 50
Read more
Prompted by an Eventbrite event – which, as the Daily Beast noted, doesn’t appear to have been started by an actual protest group but just by a single person – police cordoned off some of Park Avenue in anticipation of people protesting against Beyoncé’s Super Bowl half-time performance of her black pride song Formation, which featured dancers dressed as Black Panther activists.
Instead, about 30 pro-Beyoncé and Black Lives Matter supporters waited, holding signs proclaiming “Get information” (lyrics from Beyoncé’s Formation “get information/get in formation”) and “Pro black doesn’t mean anti white”.
At 9am, Tim Winterhalter turned up dressed in a New York Giants jersey for the anti-Beyoncé side.
“To be honest, I didn’t even watch the half-time show,” Winterhalter said. But he said he had seen the news coverage and the Eventbrite page and wanted to come “check everything out”, as he was annoyed that the Super Bowl had become political.
“This is a football game. If you want to have something with politics, you don’t have to do it on a football field,” Winterhalter said.
How activists got a Black Lives Matter sign into the hands of Beyoncé's dancers
Read more
“Look at this, man! I’m loving this,” he added as people crowded around him with cameras and mics.
But as more protesters surrounded Winterhalter asking him what exactly he was protesting against, he claimed he was simply a bystander who was “passing through”.
