When Super Bowl LIII went down in Atlanta in 2019, there were a number of Black artists who allegedly turned down the chance to perform at halftime.
They did it to be in support of quarterback Colin Kaepernick, was still unsigned by a team after starting the “taking a knee” racial injustice protests in 2016. Adam Levine and his band Maroon 5 ended up taking the high-profile gig, and now he’s getting heat for being hypocritical by posting anti-racism and pro-Black Lives Matter messages to his Instagram.
One man has started a petition for people to comment in the41-year-old’s IG posts until he apologizes for accepting the Super Bowl offer amid the NFL’s mistreatment of Kaep and other Black players…which the league has now apologized for.
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