Following Beyonce’s performance at Super Bowl 50, Tomi Lahren, a TV host for The Blaze, lit into the singer for saluting the Black Panther Party. Lahren was also critical of the Black Lives Matter movement and said Beyonce should be worried more about her husband Jay-Z’s alleged past as a drug dealer.
Lahren said:
“Beyonce, really? What is the political message here? What is it they are trying to convey here? A salute to what? A group that used violence and intimidation to advance, not racial equality but an overthrow of white domination. Your husband was a drug dealer. For 14 years he sold crack cocaine. Talk about protecting Black neighborhoods – start at home, right?”
Since that segment aired, Lahren claims she’s been besieged by hateful comments and threats directed at her and her family by the BeyHive…
comments made by #BeyHive on my little cousin's Instagram page. Come after me but grow up & leave my family alone. pic.twitter.com/DktQAbSf4W
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) February 13, 2016
Jay-Z finally responded to the controversy in hilarious fashion while sitting down on Friday (2.12.2016) with “Tax Season” podcast host, Taxstone. And he did so without uttering a single word.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BBs7NWiJJqh/
And of course, Hov’s reaction has since left Lahren more salty than before as she didn’t get the reaction she was looking for…
See Jay-Z laughed. Didn't threaten my life. Imagine that. Possible to RESPECTFULLY disagree. https://t.co/8APiobboO9
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) February 13, 2016