From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   BTR1701  wrote:   
   >Feb 9, 2026 at 1:04:32 PM PST, Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
      
   >>I just heard a favorable review of Bad Bunny's performance.   
      
   >I just heard that's seven years and counting since the NFL allowed a white   
   >person to headline the Super Bowl show. Now they've upped the ante by shutting   
   >out the English language as well.   
      
   >And when you're talking about a sport where the fanbase is more than 70%   
   >white, there's only one way to understand that decision. It's a deliberate   
   >effort by the NFL-- and Jay-Z, whose company has been contracted to run the   
   >halftime shows since 2019-- to exclude white people from participating in the   
   >single most watched musical performance of the year.   
      
   >Where are the Tom Pettys, the Aerosmiths, and The Who of years past? Country   
   >music is a billion-dollar/year industry and speaks to American values in a way   
   >that resonates with millions of people but we see none of it at the Super Bowl   
   >anymore. And even if we did, Jay-Z would probably just put his wife on stage   
   >to culturally appropriate country music and black it up like she did at the   
   >Grammys.   
      
   I didn't watch. I'm watching the Winter Olympics. Most of the women are   
   athletic, fit, young, and gorgeous, with long, flowing straight hair and   
   boy, are there a lot of blondes. It's very very white. The ice dancing   
   pairs are a man and a woman. The only weirdness is a lack of world-class   
   Dutch speed skaters. It's being held in a part of the world with actual   
   winter, unlike Beijing.   
      
   >>. . .   
      
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