Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters urged Super Bowl halftime show performers to take knees on stage in support of Colin Kaepernick in a message posted to his social media page Wednesday.
“Colin Kaepernick is an American hero. If the USA is to have a future, it is the Colin Kaepernicks of this world who will lead you there, in fact, it is Colin Kaepernick who is leading you now,” Roger Waters said in the statement.
“My colleagues Maroon 5, Travis Scott and Big Boi are performing during the halftime show at the Super-bowl this coming Sunday, I call upon them to ‘take a knee’ on stage in full sight,” the 75-year-old rocker said.
“I call upon them to do it in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick, to do it for every child shot to death on these mean streets, to do it for every bereaved mother and father and brother and sister.”
The “Brick in the Wall” singer’s statement continued with him saying that taking a knee would upset “all the Presidents (sic) men.” He also included a video of him and his band kneeling during a performance in 2017.
“My mother used to say to me, ‘In any situation there is nearly always a right thing to do, just do it.’ So, there you go my brothers, you are faced with a choice, I’m not saying it will be easy, all the Presidents men, all the huffers and puffers, will be royally pissed off, but, $#@%’em, I call upon you to do it because it’s the right thing to do and because somewhere inside you know it,” the “Money” musician said.
In 2016, the British crooner performed with anti-Trump messages appearing him behind him, such as “Trump is a pig.”
Roger Waters performs onstage during Desert Trip at the Empire Polo Field on October 9, 2016 in Indio, California. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
He defended the use of anti-Trump imagery in 2017, saying, “What we need is to survive his presidency because it’s totally unpredictable. I don’t think he knows what he’s going to do.”
Why is he given the time of day??? He is an idiot and anti American. he better not go out in public because he will probably be approached and jeered by an American… He is soo sick he talks like a fool and doesn’t care how horrible he sounds
Drugs probably took his brain a long time ago. I want to know why the Football Executives and Pepsi Cola allow people like Beyonce to “perform” cop killing routines during the Halftime Show. That is horrible!! I remember when Beyonce did her New Black Panther “routine” & at least 6 Police Officers were shot & execute across our Country within the next werk. Too bad some people still give these “celebrities” credibility.
Could not say what kind of music this group plays and glad of that. If they don’t respect America and our traditions…maybe they need to go back to the country they came from asap.
Why is he telling people to do something that is inpatriotic?? Who is Roger Waters anyway?? I say the real heroes are not musicians and athletes (who have been blessed with a talent). The real heroes are the ones who lay down their lives everyday to keep us safe, like our US Military, Police Officers (who are shot and executed just for wearing a Police badge/ Uniform), Firemen and Everyday Citizens, who put their lives on the line for their fellow human beings. “Celebrities”. who are not patriotic really should get out of preaching their Left Sided Politics to the PEOPLE.
He’s from England, was with Pink Floyd and forgets the United States rebelled against England because the majority of the English are stupid assholes.
Screw Roger, he needs a good kick in the head. he belongs with the idiots that run Facebook.
Kaepernick is NOT an American Hero. He should leave thus country and go where they appreciate anti patriotism.
The football players are ruining their own careers by listening to creeps like Roger Waters. Kaepernick is no American hero, he is just an overpaid creep who ruined his own big money career by his stupidity.