The Patriots owner’s decision to ban the rapper from performing at the team’s stadium brings back memories of the blackballing of Colin Kaepernick.
The implication was clear: more than any other sports league, the NFL was harshest in its reaction to the protests that began with Trayvon Martin in 2012 and continued with Ferguson, Baltimore and Colin Kaepernick.
Kraft imposed his own version of authoritarianism: Macklemore claims that Kraft not only banned him from his stadium, but appeared to influence other NFL owners to stop the rapper from appearing at most of Sheeran’s other stadium dates.
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The Patriots owner’s decision to ban the rapper from performing at the team’s stadium brings back memories of the blackballing of Colin Kaepernick.
Federal officials were sweeping citizens off American streets in unmarked vehicles, surrounding the Lincoln Memorial with armed guards and rolling military vehicles through residential neighborhoods in a fascist reaction to protests against the murder of George Floyd.
The implication was clear: more than any other sports league, the NFL was harshest in its reaction to the protests that began with Trayvon Martin in 2012 and continued with Ferguson, Baltimore and Colin Kaepernick. By blackballing Kaepernick, sitting by while broadcast partners refused to air the national anthem to undermine the protests, and, Goodell’s announcement that teams would be subject to fines if players showed dissent, the NFL had proven itself to act in the most un-American of ways.
Kraft imposed his own version of authoritarianism: Macklemore claims that Kraft not only banned him from his stadium, but appeared to influence other NFL owners to stop the rapper from appearing at most of Sheeran’s other stadium dates. In 2014, Macklemore apologized after he wore a wig, beard and hooked nose at a Seattle concert, which critics said was an anti-semitic caricature.
New Englanders recall him fondly as the man who rescued the Patriots from the misogyny and incompetence of the Victor Kiam years; from the threat of the team relocating to St Louis when he bought the Patriots from James Orthwein in 1994; and, of course, the man who saved them from all the losing.
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