thank you,sweetie! i loved how she hoped that she was a credit to her race! she wasn't going to not speak about race, no matter how "mannerly" she had to be doing it.

Thank you. I'm being told that Jennifer Lawrence is my best friend all the time (nope) and how Girls should give me feels (nope), but as Black woman I can't even enjoy Beyonce's album this week without all the fools popping out and showing their obvious and irrational contempt for her. A lot of it has racist…

but that critique isn't lazy in the context of your complaint of seeing too much beyonce on the website???? if you feel overexposed to beyonce then why are you actively seeking out beyonce content??

wow. i feel physically ill reading this.

Will they pull out the racism card? The mysogyny card? Or both?

"CELEBRITY - SEX - FASHION - RELATIONSHIPS - ADVICE" ... I mean... ya know? It's the first word in the description. Look, Waris Dirie's work is great and should definitely be written about, but it's not ACCESSIBLE. Moreover, it's not relatable. I'm not going into the argument of, "Oh, but being a baller is relatable?"…

"CELEBRITY - SEX - FASHION - RELATIONSHIPS - ADVICE" ... Top 40 pop.. I mean... ya know? It's the first word in the description. Look, indie stuff is all nice and good and whatnot, but it's not ACCESSIBLE. Moreover, it's not relatable. I'm not going into the argument of, "Oh, but being a baller is relatable." Actually…

You could also argue that Pepsi was good for black people as they were among the first major companies to use positive aspirational advertising toward the black community and hire black sales teams. All this during Jim Crow- a daring move for them. So Beyonce's support of Pepsi is totally related to Pepsi's…

Who the heck are you to concern troll obesity in the black community?

Please just admit that your placing the blame on Bey for obesity in black communities was out of hand. You can't make a comment about that and pretend you didn't mention race at all.

You do realize Beyonce gave an all-female band a chance to shine on her fucking tour right:

1. That wasn't hate, it was criticism of major music labels, not B.

yes! now,i'm going to look for that acceptance speech. *crosses fingers in the hopes that youtube has it*

While it was strongly worded, the OP didn't do themselves any favor, and you can simply breakdown one of their statements to see that what Batty says is logically true.

Your implication is that those two things are mutually exclusive.

That wasn't her line of reasoning.

Thank you. Simply put, as a fan of both, I think Beyonce and Janelle are in two different lanes. Not based on any sort of talent disparity, but just the type of music they put out. Janelle is very similar (and in many ways better), than an at-her-prime Lauryn Hill, and if Lauryn was still making music into the 2000s…

There were 900 Beyoncé posts on Jez? Seriously. A LOT of those posts were fighting against people who were discrediting her feminism or posts exactly like Kat B.'s. Most of them were not hailing Beyoncé as feminist Jesus. Again, I guess when you say one good thing about someone it's a big deal.

But then, how would she let us know that Beyoncè and her Pepsi endorsing ways are the reason blacks are so fat.

This.
It is simply not every day that a WOC puts out a massively successful record (without any pre-marketing mind) saying what she wants to say as she wants to say it. It's still kind of a big deal and deserving of some serious celebration. It doesn't necessarily have to be your cup of tea to appreciate and applaud…