Robert Kraft, once the NFL’s good guy, is just another billionaire silencing Macklemore | Howard Bryant

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Robert Kraft, once the NFL’s good guy, is just another billionaire silencing Macklemore | Howard BryantWorldPing
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The Patriots owner’s decision to ban the rapper from performing at the team’s stadium brings back memories of the blackballing of Colin Kaepernick Six years ago, in the middle of a “racial reckoning” that never was, a White House that had begun out o…

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  • Reported by The Guardian and published Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:14:41 UTC.

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