White People Love To Hate Beyonce Analysis

White People Love (to Hate) Beyoncé In all my years of life, I have come to realize that listening to Beyoncé isn’t as simple an act as it may seem. It is something that upon uttering as an interesting tidbit to spice up a boring conversation instead leads to a full questioning over one’s life choices. White people are the main antagonists in said conversations although they are not alone in their argument. The main question you may have, I assume follows along the lines of “why is Beyoncé such a problem” or “what is it about her music that turns vast amounts of Caucasian people into rabid dogs who foam at the mouth at the mere mention of her name?” The answer to both these questions is simple. Beyoncé isn’t a problem in herself and nothing

Hip-Hop, “street wear”, dance trends, African-American Vernacular English, as well as many Internet memes were created by Black people. These labors of love are often consumed by White America (as well as other non-Black populations), divorced from their original contexts, and misused and appropriated much to the annoyance of Black people. I remember when Lemonade came out last year the millions of times I saw the lyric “Becky with the good hair.” Clueless White people both adored and detested the phrase. The ones that loved it didn’t understand its meaning. How could they? They had always been Becky with the good hair and never Becky with the no good nappy hair. Their lack of comprehension led them to ultimately label themselves as something they already were. On the other hand, you had the reactionary White people. Always on the lookout for any reason to cry wolf they seemingly found it in the harmless words. “That’s racist!” they screamed scrambling to their laptops and cellphones to declare on the Internet why Beyoncé was the face of “Black supremacy.” Racism against White people is as existent as the tooth fairy or Saint Nick but the claims wouldn’t stop. Lemonade was a visual album made by a Black woman for Black women and as usual White people were angry they had yet to be included (despite all other forms of media that cater to their every demographic.) They were angry because Beyoncé had scorned them. She reminded them that she is something that they could never be regardless of how many Hip- Hop artists they listened to, a number of hair styles they appropriated, and their constant use of the n-word. Beyoncé is a Black woman. Black in a way that succeeds and pushes society into acknowledging your