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Oh, god. I can't stop laughing. ? I'm almost crying!

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MJHolland
9 hours ago, Nino said:

I didn't want to have to but let me fully explain why the way this skit was done out was wrong. Firstly I'd like to say I thought it was funny. However, I thought it was a little ridiculous that these white actors and white writers and white directors made it when their very existence as a show that overrepresents white men and regularly plays on racist stereotypes contributes to the problem that Bey is facing. Beyonce for the first time expressed that she's proud of her heritage, being a society that only celebrates white people she faced a massive backlash.This skit has white people playing it off as harmless panic. This isn't harmless white people panicking to themselves. In reality this was real backlash with real consequences, contributing to the social climate that makes it wrong to proud of being black in the first place. They took the largest problem with American society today and undermined it's importance. The way they framed it as a light joke white actors wrote and willingly acted out makes it feel more like a "not all white people" than a "stop white people". There are way to make intelligent satire of racism, in fact SNL makes quite a lot of it, I just thought this specifically was tone deaf.

Furthermore these people do NOT have the right to so quickly seperate themselves from racism in the US because they benefit from institutionalized racism whether they want to or not. It's like a rebellious teenager refusing to be a part of a family that feeds and houses them.

No. Beyonce faced backlash from the GP not because they don't like her being proud of her skin color, but because she made a really really sh*tty song.

But I guess her fans will reach into the heavens and claim racism if we don't suck Beyonce's ***k... Sad...

OT: Hilarious video.

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