Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Is Beyonce "Black" enough to wear BLACKFACE???


Oh I would die if I was really this dark!
Hurry up so I can wipe this shit off! -"Beyonce"
Beyonce poses in "black-face" for French magazine L'Officiel's 90th Anniversary issue. The reason the question is being raised about wheather or not the black-face is appropriate on Beyonce is because she rarely does anything publicly to support the Black community.  Black history month is in the U.S not France and she has not made any intellectual contributions to the discussion about Black Progress in America.  The real question is, is Beyonce black enough for black-face?

This should come as no surprise to anyone since Beyonce will do anything for attention.  At least she puts some clothes on for this photo shoot, 'cause I'm soo tired of seeing her without pants.  I know the French like to celebrate Black artist so I see  why they thought it was a good concept.

"Look how stupid I  look"- Will.i.am
  "Oops"- Minaj
Black Eyed Peas, front-man Will.i.am faced similar criticism after sporting black-face durring his performance with Nicki Minaj at the 2010 MTV Music Awards Pre-Show.  The Black Eyed Peas was a hip-hop group of moderate success in the 90's, with "concious" rap lyrics but, without the mainstream fan fair the group desired.  Fergie was added to the group, and now the Black Eyed Peas is the top selling pop group.  The Black Eyed Peas has never really addressed claims that they "sold out" by adding the recovering meth-addicted Caucasian woman to the crew.

If Will.i.am wasn't already considered a sell out wearing black-face wouldn't have caused such a controversy.  To make matters worse he refused to apologize to anyone he may have offended.  If it wasn't done intentionally for that response, I don't see why he wasn't more humble about it.

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