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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nuance is lost on her, PP. The point, that Beyonce's is not the sole experience of "blackness" and her class privilege gives her a unique and rarified perspective, is logic. The obvious, that Beyonce doesn't know how to be ALL black women, nor is Beyonce's perspective to be taken as the epitome of "blackness", is also logic. [b]If anyone on this thread had actually said "Beyonce isn't really black because she doesn't fit the stereotype of black poverty" then PP would have a point.  It would, in fact, be racist to say that.[/b]

But nobody said that. The original PP came kinda close by saying, clumsily, that "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." Taken in context, it's clear that the original PP was talking about Beyonce's class privilege. This was also pointed out by the second PP, to whom Ms. RaceCard replied. If she had wanted to understand, it was there to understand.

Sometimes people just like to react, and blame "whiteness" and call other people reactionary. It's sad, but it happens.[/quote]

Actually, that was exactly what was said.  You conveniently neglected to highlight the part where pp said the album wasn't Beyonce's experience as a Black woman, and that because of her upper middle class background she didn't even know what it was like to be a Black women. [/quote]

The album is not Beyonce's experience as a black woman. It's an amalgamation of the works of several black artists. Beyonce is an artist and that's how art works. It's not autobiographical in its entirety, nor was it meant to be.[/quote]

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