I understand your pain. Where in the mid-west are you? I was born in STL but raised in DC. I go back to visit STL every year, and every year I am so thankful my parents moved before I had to grow up there.

You keep saying that pop culture is the lowest common denominator, which is a rather elitist position to take. Also, in American popular music was largely created by black musicians. Each time a new form of music was created, it was initially disparaged if not outright dismissed. American society defined these new…

I’m black and from DC. I understand both meanings of bama!

Jesus your wound a awfully tight. Somebody made a comment about something you said and you were totally rude to them. For no reason. I worked with abused children for several years and I sure wouldn’t want someone like you, with so much obvious anger and hostility, to be involved in helping this population of people.

So...where are you getting these these toothless women, if you’re not volunteering till next month.

Oh dont worry. I dont admire you. Just your intention to help women who have been raped. But apparently unlike you i can feel empathy for all sorts of people.

Racists are soooo mad about this performance too. So mad. It's the icing on the cake.

Words can’t express how much this moves me. I am always floored by the people that hate Beyonce, and think she stands for whatever vile thing they throw out there.

So it’s pretty obvious from the new evidence in the linked article (i.e the undarkened photos) that this was indeed an honest mistake. It seems like maybe the title of this article should be reworded. Unless you meant it to be clickbait...ohhhh.

The difference here is not the fact that someone is choosing to wear articles of clothing from a particular culture, but that someone is wearing something of significance in a particular culture when the actual members of that culture, particularly when those members are POC, are harassed, thought less of, or…

I’m a black woman who said that we should be able to enjoy our culture without white interference, without dumbing it down for them, and that it’s not our place to be teachers or let people in. Of course a black woman speaking up for the culture she loves and cherishes is angry. :/

Hmm, I'm calling shenanigans. I'm a black American living in Sweden and I have traveled Europe extensively. The same racial issues that exist in the US exist here, except for the skavery history because Europeans like to pretend they had no hand in it.

I’m not angry or negative— I’m setting you straight. You are out of your depth and you don’t want this dance with me. So I politely suggest you stay in your lane and don’t respond, okay?

I’m a black American who has lived in Europe for the past 13 years. Your racial issues are just as bad as the ones in the USA, but you like to think because Jim Crow and chattel slavery wasn’t a thing here, y’all can claim some moral high ground. Negative.

It was a political philosophy class with a professor who had actually worked with Rawls before he died. She also taught a gender and philosophy class that would sometimes spill over into the political philosophy class (because duh).

I don’t understand how this is manufactured pop. That you can see at a blush. She isn’t selling sexual availability or a conventional fantasy, but the opposite. She is sexiness and power and wealth untouchable by anyone and she isn’t here to service any conventional demand.

Yep!

Quick PSA: If you don’t “get” this video, it’s because Beyonce didn’t make it for you. There’s nothing that says black culture needs to be distilled and broken down for the masses. Some things are just for us.

Since/If you missed it, this entire song is a subtle pro-black anthem. The video makes it way more obvious... but start with some southern black pride:
“You mix that negro with that Creole make a Texas bamma”