I really think people should stop criticizing Sam Smith for what was a simple and understandable slip of the tongue. And I can say that with a little bit of gravitas as the first openly gay man on the internet.

Not that being a Black Panther should be that upsetting to white people either.

You’re looking at this backwards. It’s not “all white people are hysterical over Beyonce’s latest video”. It’s “All the people hysterical about Beyonce’s latest video are white.”

I don’t think celebrities could really do anything to “unite police and black people.” If they tried, they could easily be written off as out of touch rich people whose needs are adequately served by the status quo when it comes to police brutality/misconduct because they’re less likely to be targeted. It would be…

Hello friend/random Internet person. I don’t know if you knew, but not only am I under no obligation to prove an anecdotal story I’m telling you on the Interwebz (you’re welcome to take it with a grain of salt), there’s no way I could possibly do so even if I tried. I could say 2 or 200 and you’d never know if it’s…

It’s ridiculous because she means none of this shit. As a person with much deeper roots to Louisiana that her ‘Creole/not all black self hatred weave wearing ass” will ever have that video of hers is bullshit.

Really? You’re going to go straight for the #notallwhitepeople? People flipped the fuck out about this, called her racist and hateful, and said her message wasn’t family friendly just because she was singing a pro-black message. I think white people can take the ribbing. It was pretty well deserved.

It might be a dated specific reference, but the general point stands. Plenty of musicians wear clothes that originally had some political symbolism and nobody asks them to answer for what that symbolism meant 40+ years ago.

Play him the black national anthem and ask him the same thing. god some white folks are just plain stupid.

I posted about how much I liked it, a couple of white friends (I’m white, too) replied that they didn’t really get it, and then one guy I work with said, “Her thighs scared me.” To which I responded, “Good.” And a bunch of people, all women, liked my reply. Ha.

How DARE a dancer have the audacity to wear a leotard while performing?!

Maybe it’s living in NYC but I don’t know a single person who got offended or felt threatened by Beyonce’s video.

What do you mean Beyonce is black? Are you telling me Loreal lied to us?

Seriously! I know way to many people who after the immediate circulation of police committing murder and people demanding justice for it, will post all kinds of bullshit memes about supporting our police no matter what. Like wtf is wrong with you that your brain is so under developed as to not be able to generally…

Totally. Also, Killer Mike was on Real Time, and he talked about it, and one of the first things he said was “white folks, it’s not always about you”. I loved what the video did, the music wasn’t for me but the lyrics, my god, the lyrics. And her superbowl performance nailed it. She has a message, she is sharing it,…

Yeah, I guess I wasn’t really keyed to it until after the superbowl. And then suddenly the crazies came out about how dare she sing a song and wear clothes that were a tribute to black people. And then everyone turned it into her being anti-police. It really just goes to show how prejudiced our society still is that…

The problem is you got too much sense. This world ain’t built for your kind.

You know, it really does seem that white folks don’t care about “racism” until it affects them. Course, racism requires a victim/victimizer relationship to work. People can be prejudged, sure, but racism is deeper than that. So many Facebook memes targeting Beyonce about being racist and how it must be okay to be…

Even though the song is not “for” white america, she clearly wants white middle america to pay attention to it, otherwise she would not have performed it at the superbowl. She’s smart. And I’m glad, as a white person who is still concerned about racism in America, to have watched it, and been like “I don’t get it. I…