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The NFL announced this week Rihanna will headline the Super Bowl halftime show. She confirmed the news gleefully on Instagram with a photograph of herself holding a football.<\/p>\n

This makes Rihanna a sellout. That is at least according to Rihanna in 2019.<\/p>\n

Three years ago, Rihanna confirmed in a Vogue profile that she turned down an opportunity to perform at the Super Bowl in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely, [I did],\u201d the singer responded.<\/p>\n

Rihanna added she would never participate in an NFL event and enable its racism.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn’t dare [perform for the NFL]. For what? Who gains from that? Not my people. I just couldn’t be a sellout. I couldn’t be an enabler. There are things within that organization that I do not agree with at all, and I was not about to go and be of service to them in any way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strong words from someone about to perform for the NFL and provide it a service.<\/p>\n

Rihanna. (Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So what changed? Why is Rihanna \u2014 to use her words \u2014 selling out and enabling racism?<\/p>\n

Hopefully, one of the many journalists and television anchors who interview Rihanna ahead of the Super Bowl will ask her to explain her change of heart.<\/p>\n

Does she no longer support Kaepernick? Did she realize he’s a fraud?<\/p>\n

Or did she only support him at the time as a means to increase her status with the social justice crowd?<\/p>\n

While we assume it’s the latter possibility, we hope Rihanna has come to learn the following truths about Colin Kaepernick:<\/p>\n

Kaepernick doesn’t want to play football; he wants to be an activist. He used phony victimhood as a marketing tool to make Netflix documentaries that lichen playing in the NFL to slavery.<\/p>\n

He also can’t play football at even an average level. Last we saw him, he lost his starting job to a bum called Blaine Gabbert.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, NFL teams calculated that Colin Kaepernick’s mediocre skills do not offset the polarization that’d come with signing a player who chastised the fans who celebrate July 4:<\/p>\n

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Black ppl have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized + terrorized by America for centuries, & are expected to join your commemoration of \u201cindependence\u201d, while you enslaved our ancestors. We reject your celebration of white supremacy & look forward to liberation for all. \u270a\ud83c\udffe pic.twitter.com\/YCD2SYlgv4<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) July 4, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That is why Kaepernick doesn’t have a job. And that’s why the musicians who went to bat for him, from Eminem to Rihanna to boy band members, look like uninformed useful idiots.<\/p>\n

By the way, if Rihanna is going to sell out, could she at least perform \u201cUmbrella\u201d during halftime?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n