Toronto councillor wants Beyonce investigated before her Canadian dates

by Dan MacRae

February 10, 2016

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Won't somebody please think of the Destiny's Children?

Is Beyoncé a threat to national security? According to a Toronto city councillor, she just might be.

What did you see when you caught Beyoncé’s portion of the Super Bowl Halftime Show? If you said: “I saw an internationally cherished popular recording artist steal the show, express a message of empowerment and visibility all while making Chris Martin look like a lost social studies teacher in the process,” congrats on being a sensible person. If you saw Beyoncé’s performance as a flagrant attack on police and the concept of gun safety, you’re in Ward 39 councillor Jim Karygiannis’ camp. (His camp is the wrong camp, by the way.)

Karygiannis is one of many political figures and commentators (like Rudy Giuliani) that are furious with Beyoncé and her dancers over their performance at the Super Bowl. The attire, the gestures, the aura of “Formation” and presence of dancers in photographs sporting messages like “Justice 4 Mario Woods” has gotten a certain brand of politician in a huff over the iconography and pushback of it all.

Y’know those “NUH UH ALL LIVES MATTER” dinks? The combo of the “Formation” video and just the mere concept that a black entertainer might believe that racism exists in 2016 is like a dog whistle for these dummies. Look! There’s even an anti-Beyoncé protest rally scheduled in New York.

Karygiannis not only took issue with Beyoncé’s performance, but he found its contents so offensive (COULD YOU IMAGINE???) that he wants the A Lister to be investigated before entering the country later this year for her Formation tour dates. The councillor told the Toronto Sun that Beyoncé deserves federal scrutiny and probably made some braying donkey noises too because this thing is the dumbest.

“Perhaps Immigration Minister John McCallum should have her investigated first?” he said. “If someone wore bullets and supported (a radical group) here, they would not be welcomed in the United States — that’s for sure.”

Jim Karygiannis tells the paper that he doesn’t necessarily think Beyoncé should be banned off her Super Bowl appearance alone (so genteel!), but there should at least be a probe into her camp’s potential backing of the New Black Panthers. The councillor said “we should not be promoting gun culture or anti-police sentiments” when talking about the star’s high-profile gig. It’s all ridiculous and exhausting and let’s just plunk the Halftime Show video below on general principle.

[h/t CityNews]

Tags: Music, News, Beyonce, police

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