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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you guys would be fine if Taylor Swift sang "You better call Shaneequa with the afro" and all the white women retorted "this is not about you or your experience, you have no place to comment"?

I doubt that. You'd be screaming it was racist and how dare she.... and all of your loud voices would have plenty to say.

[b]Please don't forget this album is not Beyonce's experience as a black woman. She grew up in an upper middle class neighborhood, both parents had excellent jobs, she had the best of everything, went to private school, and her dad quit his job to manage her budding career after she went to a school for the performing arts. I doubt SHE knows what it's like to be a black woman. Some other poetic visionary genius whittled this together and is using Bey as their vehicle.[/b]

Totally agree with everything the previous poster said about enjoying the album while it is not necessarily about "you".

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Wow, that's shockingly ignorant. Since when does class privilege erase Blackness?  I'm upper middle class, my parents had excellent jobs, and I went to private school.  That doesn't make me any less Black.

You're an outsider. You're seriously overstepping your boundaries by trying to define Beyoncés Blackness. [/quote]

+1, and I'm white. 
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+2. Middle class (half black and half white)[/quote]

[b]Where does it say anywhere that her Blackness is erased or that she is any less Black?[/b] It does not say that. It says her experience growing up is not the experience she is singing about in relations to the struggles of the Black woman in her visual album.

This wasn't written by a struggling, poor, unprivileged, disrespected, discriminated against suffering Black woman... more like Beyonce and a bunch of white men. [/quote]

That's exactly what pp said.  Her exact words were "I doubt SHE knows what it's like to be a black woman".[/quote]

Does not say her Blackness is erased, says she probably hasn't experienced the struggles of most Black women. You know exactly what was meant. She has led a privileged, charmed life.

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