Beyoncé's "statement"

Here we go again.  White people are evil!  Run for your lives!  Aaaah!

So pop diva Beyonce used to be a pretty good artist.  Then she went all ghetto and lost a lot of fans who enjoy more inclusive mainstream pop. By that I mean people who aren't black.  They stopped listening to her new ghetto stuff.  Not because she embraced her blackness like black racists think, but because the music stopped being good.

See, ghetto music is designed for only ghetto-ites to enjoy.  It's degrading music about degrading things that the ghetto subculture embrace as being inherently black.  Promiscuity, getting drunk, selling or doing drugs, getting rich and killing cops.  Pretty much all modern hip hop music is degrading, brain cell killing drivel and that so many black youth have been brainwashed into thinking that the things in modern hip hop are part of their heritage instead of detritus that holds them back is deeply disturbing to anyone with a brain.

Mainstream radio doesn't play Beyoncé's new stuff for a reason.  It's not marketable to non black audiences. When Beyonce went down the ghetto trash road, she lost her fans who had better taste.

She needed relevance to get them back.  She has concert tickets to sell.  She needs publicity to do that.  She needed to get people talking about her so she can make money.  So she did that at the Super Bowl.

With a ridiculously black power white people are evil halftime show.  A lot of people were offended at the blatant racism and yes, if you weren't black, you were supposed to feel uncomfortable by it.  Most black folks are super excited that Bey put whitey in their place and are up in arms at the thought that anyone would be offended.  Because black people can be racist towards others while condemning racism towards themselves.  And people who think that are hypocrites.

But the show was more about putting whitey in their place then about empowering blacks and that's racist regardless of what Beyoncé's black fans think.

I wouldn't mind "Formation", her new song, if it was a positive message.  There's nothing wrong with addressing social issues, but only if a) you're honest and b) you're tasteful about it.  Because it's music, Bey.  Kids are watching you.  What did they see?  A song by a half naked woman pretty much telling them to hate and get whitey.  "Formation" blames white people for everything while not really encouraging black people to do anything to help themselves.  It's black victimhood set to music.  It seems to plays up black excellence at the expense of insulting everything that isn't black.  It doesn't even have a good beat.  It's just more ghetto trash.  And why won't Beyonce wear cloths anymore?  If you have to be practically nude to keep people interested, maybe you're music's not that good?

There's nothing wrong with black pride as long as you accept that there's also nothing wrong with white pride or Mexican pride or Arab pride.  You can't say black people get to be proud of being black but no one else has that same right because they're not black.  That's racist.

And black folks can't resolve the issues facing their community without acknowledging their own culpability.  In other words, yeah some crap happened in the past, Bey, but instead of wallowing in it, why don't more black folks get off their asses and DO SOMETHING to improve their lives.

I've said it before but even when other blacks say the same things, they're called sell outs and Uncle Toms by the racist blacks who prefer to blame whitey.

Such is the message of ghetto music.  Have sex with everyone, smoke a lot a weed and, when your life goes to shit, it's all whitey's fault.  Like black skin means you're not capable of making good decisions because, ya know, slavery.  Excuses.

All I hear in "Formation" is excuses.  All I hear is a famous artist telling her black fans to hate her white fans while the media, not wanting to piss off the black fans, make fun of non blacks who take offense at black racism.  Cuz blacks riot rather than vote.  Cuz blacks say fuck the police instead of becoming cops and changing the way policing is done.  Because white liberals are so damn scared of appearing racist, they let blacks get away with pretty much anything even at the expense of white liberals.

Beyonce didn't make a statement.  She made a spectacle of herself to sell you concert tickets and reminded everyone of just how racist black people can be in her greedy quest to make money.

And we'll forgive her for it because of guilt and fear and she's Beyonce.  She's famous. She's pretty.  She's rich.

In the end, Beyoncé's "statement" is worn out material, tired hot air blown up our collective noses for her own personal benefit, a diatribe affecting no changes, signifying nothing.

A decade from now, no one will even remember it and nothing will