Yahoo Lifestyle 'The View' Host Ana Navarro Makes a Bold Prediction After Kendrick Lamar's Halftime Performance
The hosts of The View reacted to Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show on the morning after the big game—with Ana Navarro joking about the politically-themed performance's potential repercussions.
“I wasn’t watching the game, but listen, I think today Donald Trump is gonna sign an executive order banning Black people from halftime,” Navarro quipped during the Monday, Feb. 10 episode of the talk show, prompting the audience to laugh and applaud.
“Because you remember last week when we were talking about whether the NFL was capitulating to Trump by removing the term ‘End Racism’ from the end zone,” Navarro went on to say. “Boy, did they not capitulate to Trump! When I saw Samuel L. Jackson dressed as a Black Uncle Sam introducing Kendrick Lamar, who then had an entire formation of all Black people making a US flag—listen, this much I know. All the Black people on my feed were like, this is blackity Black Black! All the racists who somehow get in, they were hopping mad. If the racists are mad, I’m happy as a clam.”
Navarro's co-host Sunny Hostin agreed that Lamar's performance was especially significant because it took place in New Orleans, a majority-Black city.
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“With all these attacks on diversity, all these attacks on African Americans, it was so nice to see Black excellence enjoyed in front of the sitting president who decided for the first time to go to the Super Bowl,” Hostin said.
“And then you have Kendrick Lamar. A lot of people didn’t understand his performance," she continued. "Guys, he’s an award-winning—a Pulitzer Prize-winning musician and poet, okay? It was a many-layered performance."
"You had Serena Williams crip walking, and it was performance art if you really looked at it,” Hostin argued. “Yes, he had people dressed in red, white, and blue, the colors of the flag, but he was standing in front of them because he’s explaining that this is a divided country at this point. He also has them leaning to the side because this country was built on the backs of Black people. So it was very multilayered.”
