The Official Beyoncé Thread

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Originally Posted by dddaiyamondo

But Beyonce is definitely going for a race-less image, IMO. She's trying to appeal to white, black and Hispanic audiences, but she just ends up looking really strange. Half the time I mistake her for Mariah Carey, who is African-American and Euro-American, and Shakira, who is Spanish, Italian and Lebanese. But back in the day she actually looked black, because she was targeting African-American listeners. Now I feel like she's lost a lot of that realness.

This is what this L'Oreal controversy is really about. The media have this image of what being black is but a lot of us don't look like that. Black people don't come in one shade. Some of us choose to straighten our hair because it's a pain to deal with otherwise. They don't know what being really black is. Some of us go crazy trying to look like what people think we should look like. We change color depending on the amount of sun. A tan. There is no such thing in America as race-less. We have to have a race. Beyonce is Black in America and no amount of airbrushing is going to change that. It's useless.