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The Philadelphia Eagles and Kendrick Lamar’s collective of geniuses made this the Super Bowl we needed. When the hip-hop maestro took center stage he unleashed an artistic inferno rooted in Black culture, Black poetry, and Black resistance. Lamar, who is more an abstract master of symbology than political rabble-rouser, performed something right in Trump’s face that I think people will be decoding for years. It was a textured, deeply layered, colossal middle finger at the worst of US history, Trump, and anyone who would try to obliterate Black culture in this country. The dancers, the choreographers, the costume designers, SZA, and Lamar all created something collective, and we should understand it as cooperative political art. The Eagles won, and the Chiefs lost. But I’ll remember this as the night when Kendrick Lamar sent Donald Trump home a loser.
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