The Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams addressed the controversy surrounding Beyoncé’s performance of her new song, “Formation,” during the Superbowl Halftime show on Sunday.

Williams was not playing any games when addressing the uproar.

Fox News brought up how the singer was incoherently talking about Black Lives Matter via her song; one commenter remarked that he did not like how Beyoncé used the Superbowl as a platform to “attack the police.”

It almost seemed like there was no reason for Beyoncé to address her race, culture, and the topical issues that surround both topics.

“Race was brought in because Beyoncé was brought in. You might not want to believe this, but Beyoncé is black,” said the Senior Beyoncé Correspondent.

“You know what’s right in the middle of America? Ferguson, Missouri,” Williams remarked. “I am so sorry this wasn’t wholesome enough for you. I didn’t realize singing about race was equivalent to Janet Jackson getting her t—ty pulled out at the Super Bowl.”

See the whole clip below.

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  • Travis Henry is a senior at Rutgers University studying Communication, with a concentration in Strategic Public Relations and Public Communication, and French. Currently, he is looking at the relationship between consumer brands and African-American youth and how the Black-white racial segregation has manifested online. When he is not doing research at school or writing at work, he finds himself “curating the human experience” via his magazine DWNTWN and editing his school’s magazine Voice. He sees himself in the future finding a career that hybrids music, activism, media, and writing.