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don’t trust anyone with a strong negative opinion on rap music
I sense a contradiction in terms.
“Music” implies change in some sort of pitch. ”Rap” implies a lack thereof. Therefore, “Rap music” is an oxymoron. If you remove the “oxy”, you get the kind of people that like rap music.
Hey dude you dropped your fedora
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Rereading S+S at the moment. It’s not my favourite Austen, but Elinor is my favourite heroine.
You know how every time you reread Austen there is more to notice? This time I’m noticing how pointed the ends of chapters are. They’re the text equivalent of someone raising their eyebrows and leaving the room.
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“So when the most influential black woman in the world, armed with degrees from some of the best institutions in the world, names Beyonce, a singer best known for a song called “Bootylicious,” as someone she aspires to be, how can we expect young black girls who didn’t go to Princeton to aspire to more than that?” —
Did Michelle Obama Make a Major Misstep with Beyonce? | Loop21 (via tballardbrown)
Wow, is this person being serious? Firstly, Beyonce is not best known for the song ‘Bootylicious’. She actually has a solo career that has seen her release four multi-platinum selling albums, has won more grammys than you can count on both hands, is worth $300 million, and is still going strong. If anything, Beyonce is a prime example of a woman who’s worked her fucking ass off to get every little bit of what she has, so don’t you dare come at her in this manner and diminish her worth to something ridiculous and as demeaning as what we all know you’re really alluding to.
Beyonce is a smart woman, so is Michelle Obama who is very aware of this fact. Both serve as equally amazing individuals for black girls, or anyone else for that matter, to look up to.
Black girls can do whatever the hell they want to do - including having aspirations that merge superior academic goals with conquering the world of entertainment.
This ain’t no misstep, get your facts in check.
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wow…white rhetoric right there, that “armed with degrees”=the only way to be successful. except you don’t say this same shit to white entertainers who do not have shiny academic backgrounds; you don’t question their inspiration values now, do you?
besides academia is NOT the absolute method to test intelligence. that’s some grade A white bullshit that’s been shoved down our throats. not saying degrees don’t help in the long run, but you better the hell not degrade a person’s hard-working ethics to fuel your white, condescending logic
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Being one of the most successful female performers in history isn’t something to aspire to now? Oh. I swear to God these respectability games aren’t about reality, they’re about shaming black children for wanting to create. What is it about art that makes some people twitch so damned hard?
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Also, that’s a gross misinterpretation of what Michelle Obama said. When asked if she would trade places with anyone else in the world, she said she wished she could be a great singer, like Beyonce.
First off, that’s not aspiring to be someone else. I wish I could play the violin, because the violin looks like a fun instrument to play, not because I have a burning desire that consumes my every waking moment to be Vanessa Mae. Secondly, Michelle Obama gave possibly the sweetest reply to that question ever. All she wants is Beyonces voice. She never said she wanted to literally be the biggest pop star on the planet, married to the other biggest musician on the planet, with millions in the bank and a guaranteed Grammy just for showing up. She just wished she could hold a decent note, that’s all.
I realise the point of the above comments was about not slut shaming Beyonce, and by extension all Black women. And I agree. But really, that’s not even what Michelle Obama said. They took her words, misquoted them wildly out of context, just so that they could make a virgin/whore argument.
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Can you imagine how hard it was to answer that question. Who would you trade places with? Have to pick someone people will have heard of, but probably not someone too geeky or historical, that will turn people off, but also not someone too out there subculturally. Can’t pick someone white, because, obviously. Probably shouldn’t pick a dude. So… woman of colour that people have heard of, who they’ve heard of for positive reasons.
How many can YOU think of?
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