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If you were to scroll through Colin Kaepernick’s Twitter account this past weekend—Super Bowl weekend—you would’ve seen a number of celebrities expressing support of him and his cause.

There were activists Harry Belafonte, Angela Davis and John Carlos. There were musicians Common, Janelle Monae and Chamillionaire. NBA superstars LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Steph Curry were all photographed wearing black Kaepernick jerseys, and several of these other celebrities wore those jerseys, too.

A few people took the movement a step further by coming out and declaring they were boycotting the Big Game altogether. On Rihanna’s Instagram story, she posted an artist’s rendering of Kaepernick kneeling and wrote the caption: “For those of you who thought I was watchin [the] super bowl… we beefin.