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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^Exactly.  I really don't understand why so many are defending that statement.  [b]Just because she didn't grow up dirt poor in the ghetto doesn't take anything from her being a Black women.[/b]

It's clear from many posters here she's being disrespected. (For "pretending" to articulate "The Black Woman Experience")[/quote]

I understand it perfectly. It is how those individuals define Black people or Black women. To the supporters of that statement, the only context they have of a Black woman is poor, uneducated, and unmarried. They choose not to see or recognize anything else. [/quote]

This is not a true statement... I don't have that context of Black women at all... [b]Isn't this in relation to Beyonces visuals and her songs about black women? I 100% recognize more than that visual, however we are talking about what Beyonce is singing about and her privileged upbringing.[/b]

I would feel the same if Taylor Swift was putting out visual albums depicting poor white America or if a boy band was singing about Katrina or socioeconomic or race struggles. I get people write lyrics and that songs can be about anything, but the specific lyrics may not be Taylor's experience or that boy band's experience or Beyonce's experience... [/quote]

Many of the visuals in the album are from Black women's history, particularly Black women in Louisiana. Have you ever heard of the Quadroon Balls?  Tignon laws?  Yes, these injustices ended centuries ago, but they are a part of her family's history.

Are you saying that its wrong for Beyoncé to depict these things because [b]she hasn't personally experienced them[/b]?[/quote]

Are you reading into everything everyone posts? No one is saying it is not wrong. They are saying she hasn't personally experienced these things... just like you typed above.[/quote]

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