Why boycotting Beyonce's halftime show is offensive

Why boycotting Beyonce’s halftime show is offensive

Kyla Summer Miller

On Sunday February 7 aka Super Bowl Sunday, Beyonce performed at the halftime show for the second time along with popular rock band Coldplay and Bruno Mars and people are outraged by her performance.

Beyonce performed her new song, “Formation” which promotes positivity and self love within the black community. People are calling her “racist” because she didn’t have any non-black background dancers and she and the dancers were dressed as members from the Black Panthers. And many others believe it was an attack on police officers.

The fact that thousands of people actually plan to boycott her because they felt uncomfortable with the black positivity offends me.

Why is it that many people still refuse to believe that racism is alive and well in this country but the minute a prominent black figure does something to empower, its automatically seen as racist?

The fact of the matter is, it wouldn’t make sense for  Beyonce to have white background dancers in a performance about black people and if she did, it would be cultural appropriation to have them dressed as Black Panthers.

I applaud Beyonce for doing something that she believed in and thank her for talking about something no one else would. Pro-Black and black centered messages are not automatically anti-white.