Photo: Beyonce/YouTube
Queen Bey has officially made me proud. I was ecstatic to hear Beyoncé’s new cultural
pride song Formation. After all, it is the duty of artist and poets
to reflect the times in which they are living.
America is busting at the seams with racial tension, outrage against
police brutality, the poisoning of the poor in Flint, Michigan, and the angst
after careless words are murmured after the Republican and Democrat debates.
Beyoncé took a stand.
She voiced that black lives do indeed matter. Her husband seconded that notion as Tidal and
Roc Nation plans to donate 1.5 million dollars to the Black Lives Matter
movement. Of course the haters tried to
fruitlessly protest against the Formation
Super Bowl performance. According to
Vox, only three people showed up. Can you say crickets! Beyoncé’s personal declaration of her hot
sauce carrying, Red Lobster eating, big nose loving, Blue Ivy afro rocking,
beautiful black pride made closet bigots a little upset! SNL released a hilarious skit titled The Day Beyoncé Turned Black. It showed white people losing their minds all
over America. Her video was riddled with images of a water
flooded New Orleans, police pointing guns at a black child as stop shooting us appears in blood red, the
black church praising God, and Beyoncé and her beautiful backup dancers sporting
ethnic hairstyles. After all this, Beyoncé
declares that she is a dreamer who works hard for everything that she has, and tells
her listeners that the best revenge is success.
When did it become a crime to love yourself and your
culture? Why does loving me mean I have
to hate you? I guess people forget that
under all the glitz and glamour that Beyoncé is a black woman who loves herself and
cares about her people. This does not make her a racist, a race baiter or un-American. It makes her an intelligent human being who is concerned about social justice and cultural genocide. In these
perilous times, to remain silent when you hold so much influence, is simply
nihilistic and contributing to the problem.
I thank you Mrs. Carter for speaking your truth and using
your platform to inform the masses. Yes indeed you do slay! I applaud you and happily get into formation!
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Sources:
http://www.eonline.com/news/737526/tidal-donating-1-5-million-from-charity-concert-to-black-lives-matter
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