According to Sevyn, just before she was about to take the court to sing the anthem, she was told she would be replaced because of the jersey she decided to perform in.
ESPN writes:
Scheduled national anthem singer Sevyn Streeter said she was told by the 76ers she could not perform on Wednesday night because of her “We Matter” jersey.
She was slated to sing before the Sixers’ season opener against the Oklahoma City Thunder, but she said in an interview with The Associated Press late Wednesday that she was told she would not sing just minutes before her performance.
“I’d say two minutes before we were about to walk out … the organization told me that I could not wear my shirt while singing the national anthem at their game,” the R&B singer said by phone. “I was never given any kind of dress code. I was never asked beforehand to show my wardrobe.”
Was suppose to sing the anthem at @sixers & @okcthunder game but mins b4 @sixers said I couldn’t because I was wearing a “We Matter” jersey pic.twitter.com/wjoJN3rq0r
— Sevyn (@sevyn) October 27, 2016
So black people saying we matter is offensive?
Only to racists. The hilarious thing is some of them don’t even think they are racist. LOL.
That’s what I don’t understand. How the hell do you feel some kind of way about THAT?
Sad, isn’t it?
Sigh…
When people show you who they are, believe them. Time to boycott the 76ers.
Yes ma’am!
Racists are really showing themselves right now. This is the best thing about what Colin is doing. People are taking off their hoods now and showing you who they really are.
Black people are not supposed to show any pride or love ourselves. And speaking out about injustices? Can’t do that either. How sad is that though?
Did you hear about the black man that stopped a man from touching a lil white girl on the back of the bus and when the cops arrived he was arrested for assault because the man lunged at him and he defended himself? He was only let go because the black Sergeant that came to the arrest heard what happened and order them to release him.
The hoods are out en masse and they’re not even bothering to pretend otherwise
No I didn’t hear about that. That’s crazy! Let me go Google it now.
This pretty much sums up how ridiculous anti BLM people are. You get riled up and tell black people we can’t feel like our lives matter. How can another human being wanting their life to matter be a bad thing? Just pathetic.
I’m glad she put their racist a-ses on blast. No black person should support this sh-tty a-s team anymore. I swear these sports teams act like white people are the only ones with money and the only ones supporting these teams. They don’t want to offend white people but don’t give a sh-t about offending us. F-ck them. We need to make our own leagues so we can be done with this bullsh-t once and for all.
Not surprised at all. The NBA owners have been talking all this mess about how they want the players to be able to protest but I knew that was a lie. If the players ever wake up and decide to put their money together to create their own leagues, then change will happen.
Until black people seriously start to boycott these teams, they will keep doing this stuff.
Idiots.
smh So disgraceful!
F-ck that sorry a-s team anyway!