r/Music • u/TheMirrorUS 📰The Mirror US • Sep 14 '26

article Robert Kraft issues lengthy statement on Macklemore after rapper says NFL owner had him banned from

https://www.themirror.com/sport/american-football/robert-kraft-macklemore-sheeran-palestine-2024272
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u/ZedisonSamZ Sep 14 '26 edited Sep 14 '26

There are many artists who are proudly pro-Palestinian and anti-genocide. There’s something more here.

Nah he halfpologized for his “witch” nose and his reps sighed with relief that pop culture has the attention spans of split atoms. This is just coming back into the spotlight again because it is relevant… a specific chicken coming home to roost, invited by someone (granted possibly evil himself) who can pull heavy strings, who obviously got a not-unreasonable impression that Macklemore is not solely for a Free Palestine for Palestinians sakes.

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u/MegaDerppp Sep 14 '26

His apology was a non apology. It was a "sorry you feel that way" with a very transparent, bad excuse that it was all a random costume and all a big coincidence. Apologies are about accepting responsibility, he ducked that.

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u/VerseChorusWumbo Sep 14 '26

This was his apology, by the way (copied from a comment right below yours in the thread, lol):

“You mean the costume that was literally random props his team had available? That he apologized for when people expressed to him it was anti-semitic? And then he donated to the ADL (the organization formed to combat anti semitism)? And still, to this day, is a cause he champions on his website?

:"I acknowledge how the costume could, within a context of stereotyping, be ascribed to a Jewish caricature," he wrote.

"I am here to say that it was absolutely not my intention and unfortunately at the time I did not foresee the costume to be viewed in such regard."

The musician added: "I'm saddened that this story, or any of my choices, would lead to any form of negativity."

And this was in 2014......by the way.”

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u/MegaDerppp Sep 15 '26

Re-read it again slowly. Hes not taking responsibility for what he clearly did. If you think that was random, then theres not much more to say to you, and ni offense to you here but that would make you extremely sheltered and naive, especially if youre from any minorities that get charicatured. Imagine someone wore essentially a minstrel costume and his apology to the black community was not i ahouldnt have done that and im sorry but rather that was just an unfortunate coincidence and im sorry that offended you. Do you recognize the difference? Its almoat worse

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u/ZedisonSamZ Sep 15 '26

Notice these fucking losers excuse it as a ‘temporal issue’ instead of a morality failure in which Macklemore was a straight up racist piece of shit for the giggles.

“tWeLvE yEaRs aGo!!1!!”