I know we’ve had at least three posts on this topic so far. I can see from the comments that a lot of people were not or are not aware of this relationship.
I think this is important because it points to something that runs contrary to Ed Sheeran’s public statement, where he excused his dismissal of a musician speaking up for Palestine.
Sweet people don’t collude to punish performers by getting them banned from taxpayer funded stadiums
Sweet people don’t support genocide.
The whole “Supporting the active murdering of children because they’re from an ethnic group who the self-proclaimed representatives of my ethnicity deem to be ‘vermin’” should be a big red flag on somebody’s character.
This is as much so now as it was back in the 1930s.
Sweet people don’t become billionaires in the first place
For the record, Kraft built the stadium with his own $$.
I highly doubt it was an typical, noncorrupt interaction with the government where he footed upfront costs and got no special tax breaks because of it.
I’m sure there were tax incentives. Just pointing out that Kraft didn’t get state or town $$ for the build.
I’m definitely not calling Kraft a “good guy” for doing it.