Showing posts with label Beyoncé. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Jay-Z's Medallion: Like A White Person Wearing Shirt That Says “I heart Ku Klux Klan” --WHAT?!

April 30, 2014 Beyoncé , Controversial Symbol 4 Comments

By Joshua Riddle, Apr. 7, 2014

Will Obama call out his buddy for wearing this? Of course not. Obama is friends with all kinds of people who hate white people. We knew that 6 years ago when Rev. Jeremiah Wright was spewing his hate.

Jay-Z raised eyebrows at the Barclay’s Center last week when he wore a medallion symbolizing the Five Percent Nation.

The Brooklyn-born rapper was sitting court-side at a Nets game on Tuesday with wife Beyonce when he was snapped wearing the controversial symbol.


One of the core tenants of the Five Percent Nation – an off-shoot of the Nation of Islam – is that white people are ‘wicked and inferior’ to black men.

When asked by a reporter whether the medallion is meaningful to him, Jay-Z shrugged and said ‘A little bit’. 

This isn’t the first time that the rapper has been connected to the Five-Percenters.

He was photographed wearing another similar medallion while giving radio interviews for his album Magna Carta Holy Grail last summer.


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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Newsbusters: "Media Whine About Word ‘Bossy’--While Entertainment Shows Use ‘Bitch’ 50 Times"

March 18, 2014 Ban Bossy Campaign , Beyoncé 0 Comments
By Matthew Philbin

In the never-ending search to find things to be offended by, part of the feminist left has determined that “bossy,” when applied to girls and women, is inappropriate. Really.

There’s a whole campaign with big-name celebrities and liberal partners like Upworthy, Teach for America, La Raza, The Girl Scouts and the AARP. Beyoncé, Condoleezza Rice, Jennifer Garner and Jane Lynch have all signed on.

Apparently, when some girls are called “bossy,” they tend to behave less, well, bossy. That outcome is clearly detrimental to girls’ self esteem and willingness to take leadership roles. To which sensitive, informed Americans can only respond, “Huh?”

But no lefty whine is too irrelevant for the media to ignore. On the March 10 “ABC World News with Dian Sawyer” Sawyer breathlessly called BanBossy “the powerful movement to change one word, and the future of America’s daughters.” On ABC’s “Nightline” on March 11, correspondent Cynthia McFadden cited a study from the Girl Scout Research Institute. “A third of the girls who don't want to be leaders say it's because they fear being called bossy, or being disliked by their peers,” McFadden said. “Nightline” featured Facebook COO Sharyl Sandberg, who’s behind BanBossy suggesting that, instead of calling your daughter bossy, say that she has “executive leadership skills.” Really.

But while the speech police are busy handing out citations, perhaps they could inform the public how they stand on the other B-word. Once considered a dirty – or at least an inappropriately coarse – word, “bitch” is now in common use in entertainment media. Given that it’s gender-specific, obviously insulting and, as often currently used, is shorthand for subjugation, honest feminists should find “bitch” far more troubling than “bossy.”


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