What’s really behind the backlash to Queen Bey’s Super Bowl performance
They’re not just mad at Bey – they’re made at the Black women leading the Black Lives Matter movement. They’re mad at #SayHerName. They’re mad at the recent news that Black women activists refuse to endorse a political candidate for the presidency. They’re mad because we be all up and down these fiber-optic streets clapping back and engaged in wig snatchery when racists come for us.
White anger is rooted in a long, deep history of needing to control the Black female body, mind and output. White America likes its Black women to be downtrodden, preferably subservient, suffering from any of the countless maladies and dysfunctions they create and maintain through racist and economic oppression, and coddling their fragile emotions.
This moment of White anger and down-by-the-riverside tears reveals deep-seated need to control our blackness. To dominate and define everything we say and do to serve their agendas. And Beyoncé brilliantly slayed all of that history and exploitation in “Formation.” She issued a clarion call to celebrate our Black selves in all of our diverse glory, and to connect to the fight for justice, be it via Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, the Civil Rights Movement or Black Lives Matter. The sight of leather, berets and Afros, not to mention Bey displaying her body on top of a police car and drowning it in the video, compels White panic. Worse yet, she brought the unapologetic politics of Blackness into the Super Bowl, the yearly celebration of white masculinity.
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Source: They Mad: Beyonce’s Middle Finger Salute to White America | Dame Magazine
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