“Are you going to be a coward?” Zül-Qarnain Nantambu asked himself before taking the field for Kendrick Lamar’s show. “Are you going to take a stand?”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25418917

With the world watching, Nantambu, 41, made his choice. As the rest of the 400 hired dancers moved in a coordinated rhythm to Lamar’s music, Nantambu reached into his clothes and unfurled a joint Palestinian and Sudanese flag. He took off running, waving a flag adorned with the words “Sudan” and “Gaza” in black ink. After roughly 30 seconds, he was wrestled to the ground by security as the crowd watched. Despite the mere seconds of screen time, his protest captured national attention. https://archive.ph/lFN0q

  • 9488fcea02a9
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    21 hours ago

    Meanwhile, millionaire artists didnt dare say one word to speak out against a facist president in the audience, or against genocide.