NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Super Bowl halftime show performer was charged Thursday with two misdemeanors, about 4 1/2 months after he ran across the field at the Superdome waving a flag that included the words “Sudan and Free Gaza,” Louisiana State Police said.
Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, 41, turned himself in to authorities to face of charges resisting a police officer and disturbing the peace by interrupting a lawful assembly, police said. He surrendered in coordination with his attorney and was booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center.
Nantambu revealed the flag and ran on the field during rapper Kendrick Lamar’s halftime performance on Feb. 9. He was detained on the field after his demonstration but not charged. The NFL said at the time he would be banned for life from league stadiums and events.
According to a statement from police, Nantambu had been hired as an extra performer and “had permission to be on the field during the performance, but did not have permission to demonstrate as he did.”
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy thanked investigators for their work.
“We take any attempt to disrupt any part of an NFL game, including the halftime show, very seriously and are pleased this individual will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law,” McCarthy said in a statement.
I don’t blame most Americans, I know most aren’t straight up fascists, even Trump voters mostly aren’t evil or anything. But you don’t have to say he’s a traitor or blame ‘scary foreigners’, looking at the history of the US Trump is extremely American, just a bit more intensely than we’ve had in a while. And he is supported by US corporations, the groups that the US truly represents.
The US has never represented the average mass of people, for most of the last 300 years the majority of people in the US couldn’t even vote. And with voter suppression and propaganda it’s still essentially true. Trump/MAGA/fascism is a natural consequence of the wealthy ownership of the productive forces and nearly all media of the US.
Again, it is counterproductive to ignore the influence that Putin has on Trump, and the rise of far-right/ white supremacy around the world. Until that relationship is properly addressed, America’s issues will not be resolved, and the far right will continue to grow, here and around the world.
No, its the productive thing to do. We’ve seen what being a paranoid nationalist does to people and its not productive at least in a doing something good kind of productivity
The far right growing gave you Trump, not the other way around. You have basic causd and effect reversed. The US was already white supremacist and no Putin didn’t do that.
No, but Putin is fanning the flames.
https://lemm.ee/comment/21506245
See you’ve been arguing all morning about how great and cool america is and its only done a few teeny tiny little genocides as an oopsie woopsie, but now you totally cede the idea that america was always white supremacist and putin didn’t do it.
pure ideology. that history degree really didn’t do you any favors
I have not been arguing that. America is a fucking mess right now, and I’m afraid that it may be the end for it.
I have said before that I have a history degree, and also that I am politically independent, so nobody is more aware of America’s problematic history, and all my life I have struggled to reconcile that history with my personal morality. I honestly remember the moment as a kid in school, when I thought about the slaves, and the Indians, and then about how America was supposed to be so great after doing all those terrible things. I have recognized our flaws from a very early age.
However, I have faith in the original concept of America as a nation where all people can be free and equal. I am well aware that we have violated those tenets routinely, but I have lived my life advocating for political issues that would make America adhere to the philosophy of freedom under which we were founded. So while we may act as reprehensibly as some of the worst nations on the planet, I naively optimistic that we will eventually take out nation back, and force it to follow the positive philosophy that is supposed to be our foundation.
I do not defend America’s problems, but I am hoping for America’s redemption.
What dogshit diploma mill was willing to give your ass a degree? Your understanding of history is worse than the average layperson .
What does that even mean? Independent of fucking what? You seem like a bog standard liberal western supremacist
Except the victims of it, you chauvinist fuck.
Oh, so you started with the conclusion that America was morale and worked backwards from there to justify it.
Literal fucking slavery, my dude. And indigenous genocide.
Literal, owning humans as property, chattel fucking slavery.
White supremacy, slavery, and imperial conquest.
Yes actually, you do, constantly. To the point of fascism.
America was never good. There is nothing to redeem. These ideals were always bullshit and you should know that. Your history degree doesn’t mean you know more than everyone else. First off, I know for a fact there are other history degree havers in your replies from Hexbear and secondly its A Degree, are you a professor of history? Have you been busting your ass as a grad student doing genuine research? Or did you just go to college and get a history degree cause doing the bare minimum for a history degree doesn’t mean you know a fucking thing. I’ve run circles around history and English graduates before cause unless you stick it out to Wasting Your Time In Academia levels you don’t learn as much as you think. So far the only citation you made was from a fascist and you haven’t engaged in a single rebuttal head on. I think maybe you haven’t been understanding where you are and that you’ve been speaking to communists and that had you confused and angry. But fr, you really really aren’t as smart as you think you are. Don’t tell me you have a history degree and therefore I should think you know what you’re talking about. Prove it and link some sources. We will read them.
Someone who proudly declares they vote for the lesser evil does not understand America’s problematic history or they would understand how the Democrats were as important to Trump’s success as the Republicans.
NOBDOY is more aware. Okay. So you don’t know shit compared to this guy
Good!
what’s needed is to take your nation out back and put it down like the rabid dog it is
The original concept of America was an agreement by a bunch of landlords, none of whom had any intention of extending citizenship to women or African Americans or indigenous people. The Constitution was designed to enshrine the colonial oligarchy at every level.
Where is the evidence for this “positive philosophy”? Most of us grow up and realize it was a fairy tale that we were indoctrinated with. The few positive parts of American history were accidents, rather than intentions.
It was 166 years ago that one of the rare morally upstanding figures in America said “I was mistaken in thinking that America might be redeemed without much bloodshed”.
lmfao the chauvinism knows no bounds
The “original concept of america” was a slave driven machine for land owners to accumulate wealth. There were never any morals or high ideas. Your history degree is state-sponsored brainwashing drivel. I have never met a person less informed than you.
Since you ignored the rest of what I said, then I assume you agree and havd now abandoned the entirety of your argument.
I agree that HitlerPig didn’t cause White Supremacy, he’s just using it to build support.
I don’t understand how that is abandonment of the argument that HitlerPig is the worst president in American history, and an existential threat to America and a free world.
White supremacist dog whistle.
Also “Hitlerpig” is the cringiest nickname I’ve ever heard. It makes “Obummer” look clever
You’re writing the same dumb comments so many places you’ve actually confused yourself. The comment I replied to wasn’t about Trump being “the worst president” (though I’ve replied to that claim elsewhere and you’ve similarly chickened out there).
This was your comment:
In other words, I told you that you were wrong. Core premise is wrong. You’re confusing symptoms of a disease with its causes. And at the same time you are doing this, you are downplaying the actual root causes of white supremacy in this very thread (anti-blackness rooted in slavery, the development of American capitalism) using literal white supremacist talking points.
Since we are two comments deep and you can’t even follow your own threads I will assume you don’t even respect your own opinions enough to make any attempt to defend them. You should learn how to shut your yapper before people figure you out.
The US government and corporations fund right-wing groups and propaganda worldwide in dollar amounts incomparable to any other country. In direct material terms, what has Putin done to increase the rise of the far-right? Wealthy people in Russia may benefit from far-right ideologies and help push them but the US is the primary driver of the capitalist aligned far-right and imperialism in the world. The US doesn’t need a rival like Russia to push the far-right narrative, I have seen it all my life pushed endlessly by US organizations and average Americans. Russia and China are the historic scapegoats to shift the blame from the domestic groups pushing fascist ideals and discontent.
If I were to view Putin or Russia in general as having a large influence on the rise of right-wing politics in the US, what would you suggest be done about it? In what way would this change my course of action as a communist or socialist?
https://lemm.ee/comment/21506245
This is what Putin is doing, and he is absolutely behind the rise of far-right politics. Just because he didn’t invent white supremacy doesn’t mean he isn’t fanning the flames and using to his advantage.
What to do about it? At this point, Americans have to be focused on taking back our nation from the MAGA Nazis, and then we can deal with everything else. I’ve even put my own personal political issues (Universal Health Care, Free College Education, etc., mostly Socialist stuff) on the back burner because defeating MAGA is the priority. After that we can reconfigure America to benefit the people and not the Corporatists.
As for Putin, short of war, I’m not sure, frankly. I’d rather not have a World War to crush Russia once and for all. Putin is old, supposedly sick, so maybe he’ll solve the problem for us. Then perhaps we can intervene in the resulting chaos.
This is Nazi Judeo-Bolshervick conspiracy repackaging for American liberal-fascists.
Chauvinist fuck. Can you American fascists stop meddling in other countries?
I refuse to believe there is any university that would give someone so consumed by Great Man Theory bullshit a degree in history.
Once again, everyone. Check out the author of this ‘source’. An absolute fascist nut job who seems to have invented being a nazbol. It is essential to the understanding this weird weird fucking poster that theyre really into a book written by this absolute freak
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin
I love how you so conveniently ignored this part.