It’s always great to see people like Beyoncé on the receiving end of karma. One vocal man had a few words for the singer after noticing her racist, Black Panther Party inspired half-time performance in a video that is quickly going viral, showing that the black community doesn’t all agree with Beyoncé.
Johnathan Gentry decided to verbally box Beyoncé in a video posted to Facebook on his timeline. His bold and honest words start with a bit of history, showing us all that he is aware of what she did. Gentry says that the Black Panther Party was founded in 1966 in Oakland, California.
Beyoncé used her fame to promote the racist organization at Super Bowl 50 in the Bay Area, which includes the city of Oakland — a city wrought with violence and poverty. But he doesn’t stop there. Gentry stated with certainty that he “know what she was doing.”
As his video progresses, he gets more candid and honest about what he feels Beyoncé and her husband Jay-Z are doing in their racially charged and politically motivated stunts. He also states that he doesn’t care what names he’s called for making this video and speaking out, almost as if he knows that it’s only a matter of time before that happens. Watch the video to get an idea of how passionately this man speaks for the real end to the double standards.
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If anything has been made clear in the past two weeks about black female lives in America's pop territory, it's that black girls are magic, but black women expressing their views are on the "attack." As the gigabytes of reactions to Beyonce's "Formation" -- the song, the video, the Super Bowl performance, the seismic event -- have shown, white America, white supremacy and patriarchy continue to live in fear of an actualized black woman who actually resonates with black women.
It would be woefully incorrect to say that "Formation" is Beyonce's coming into womanhood -- she's been a mother for years, a wife for longer and a boss before that. But "Formation" is in many ways her own formation: the moment when she finally stepped beyond Beyonce and into the larger world. On her last album, Beyonce, her politics were deeply personal. Songs like "Flawless," "Partition" and "Drunk in Love" were about her singular agency: her sex and sexiness, her self-love, her wife-love, her adulthood. But "Formation" is a song from a mother who seemingly has it all -- success in family, career, wealth, power and fame -- but realizes that none of that means as much as the world she leaves behind to her daughter. And it's a pop song that could only be made at this chart-topping register by someone whose net worth is currently F-point-U-million dollars.