It’s all well and good to express doubt about this being the white reaction to the song. But by claiming that “most white people have no opinion on this song,” you’re doing the same thing you accuse others of doing, i.e. speaking for a giant group of people whose views you really don’t know. Maybe you should stop to…

I don’t know... Those biscuits are hard to resist.

Wow, you got that from the article? How * insightful* of you!!!!~~!

No, it just seems you aren’t very bright.

More stars.

Why did all the reverse-racism trolls pick this article to unleash their angst on?

Exactly!

L O L

lol tell ‘em why you mad, Becky.

Yet the white POV is the only one we are normally subjected to so... OK.

Not everything is about you.

Man it must suck being lumped together like that, huh?

Have a cookie

Things are slowly changing - Lupita N’Yongo, for example, has graced many ads and magazine covers - but this panic is a good reminder that we’re not yet a post-racial society.

I LOVE how offended white people are getting about being lumped together, as if they only have one opinion. How do you think every other ethnicity has ever felt in America?

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,…

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…

I don’t know who is doing the writing at SNL right now, but they deserve a lot of accolades for this skit.