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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP.. With all the dismissiveness upthread, can the poster who said "I doubt Beyoncé knows what it's like to be a Black woman" explain that statement. What exactly do you think it's like to be a Black woman?  I too took it to mean the poster meant it as a Black woman is equivalent to all the negative pejorative stereotypes imaginable. Perhaps, I and the other posters are wrong in our interpretation of that sentence. [/quote]

[b]I took it to mean that the average Black woman has it pretty rough, [/b]unlike a rich af black woman who would have an easier go of it by virtue of her class privilege, while still subject to problems of being black in a culture that doesn't respect, appreciate, or even sometimes tolerate blackness. The sentences preceding the quoted passage above both reference Beyonce's class/status specifically, so it's pretty straightforward to apply that context.

If, you know, taking it in context was someone's goal. If you want to separate it from the context and make it something inflammatory, you can do that (and several posts have).[/quote]
So my average black woman self has it rough?
LAWD HAVE MERCY!
Beyonce is celebrated the RICH, VARIED, CENTURIES OLD experiences of all kinds of black women. There is no one experience fits all. The only thing we have in common is being black and living in America and how those factors manifest in each or our lives is NOT ONE SIZE FITS ALL.
#iquit[/quote]

Wait a minute.

A major thread of discussion across all media these days is the experience of black Americans.  How awful racism continues to be in this country.  How black lives are not given the same importance as white lives.  How whites need to understand the privilege they enjoy for no other reason than being born white.  How black Americans deal with all sorts of injustices, large and small, on a day-to-day basis. Do you not imagine that this is the "pretty rough" that the PP was referring to?  I take these experience to heart, and it sounds "pretty rough" to me.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. [/quote]

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