It’s been seven years (and counting) since the NFL allowed a white person to headline the Super Bowl halftime show. And when you’re talking about a sport where the fan base is roughly 70% white, there’s only one way to understand that decision. It’s a deliberate effort by the NFL (and Jay-Z, whose company Roc Nation has run the halftime show since 2019) to exclude whites from participating in the single most-watched musical performance of the year.
In previous decades, you’d have Prince perform one year, and Tom Petty the next. You’d have Aerosmith and The Who, and then you’d have the Black Eyed Peas. But starting precisely the same year Jay-Z took over the halftime show, in 2019, whites have been banned from headlining. And they’ve been replaced, in many cases, by non-white rappers who can barely speak English. They sexualize the whole thing. And in general, they reduce what used to be a significant American cultural event to a trashy, unwatchable display.
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