By Selwyn Duke

Some might say it was the handiwork of low-info entertainers. Others could wonder if there’s any other kind. Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, the singer and songwriter who professionally goes by only her first name, scored a Super Bowl first on Sunday: She put on a racially charged half-time performance paying homage to the Black Panthers, Malcolm X, and the divisive Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

The performance was untoward but not unexpected, being a follow-up to a BLM-themed video she released Saturday that included a graffiti-scarred wall bearing the message “Stop shooting us.” Like so many others, Beyoncé is apparently unaware of studies showing that police are more likely to kill white suspects than black ones, with police shootings of the latter having declined 75 percent during the last few decades.

Thus did the singer create a spectacle about which her “friend” Barack Obama could say, “If I had a half-time show, it would look like Beyoncé’s.”

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