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Beyonce's Ma Jumps Onboard "Racist" Skin Lightening Debate

posted 5 months ago by FootOfDavros (6785)
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-67564625

I'm not sure exactly how she can describe this as "racist" though. Surely the anger comes from black women primarily, disappointed in her?

Just because you are non white and are being criticized about something, surely that doesn't automatically mean you can conflate that with racism?

It's a bit like the situation with people being critical of Israel's current actions or protesting in favour of freedom for Palestinians being quite deliberately being targeted as being "anti-semitic". Obviously the two things are not the same yet there appears to be this same attempt to conflate two completely separate things.

[–] DeckardB26354 (966) 5 months ago

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/05/beyonces-father-admits-he-dated-her-mother-because-he-thought-she-was-white/

[–] emori (3096) 5 months ago

Tina got so angry because when Beyonce put a white wig then it became so visible to everyone that Beyonce is not black but actually a mix-red race. So Tina doesn't want that " black oppression card" to flow away.

Look at family history of Tina. She has whites left and right in there. That's why Tina is so light and almost white passing.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6040983/Beyonces-family-tree-reveals-great-great-great-grandmother-slave-married-owner.html