(1zplayLainey:这篇文章是由我们最新贡献者Cody Kreller撰写的。我知道Cody通过他作为制片人的作品而从Etalk中知道Cody。我最初计划以后再介绍Cody,但随后Beyoncé在没有警告的情况下放下了一首新歌,因为她没有任何警告,因为她是她的。确实,这加快了我们的最初推广。我们很高兴欢迎科迪加入团队!而我们仍在设置他的Laineygossip个人资料 - 羞愧我是因为始终为碧昂丝准备好了 - 您可以在Twitter上与他联系1zplaylol赛事中心@CodyJ并在Instagram上@codosphotos. And now, without further ado… take it away, Cody.)

I've come to expect a lot from Beyoncé. I know this. She knows this. However I don't require her to use her platform for every single thing that masses want her to address. Beyoncé is ubiquitous, but only in a flash – and I love that. She knows the power she holds. So if she wanted to spend Juneteenth out in the sun with her Black husband, and Black kids, minding her own Black business, I would have been totally cool with that. But she didn't. And I'm ecstatic.

For those of you who are unfamiliar, Juneteenth is a portmanteau of June Nineteenth, and marks the day in 1865 when all slaves in Texas were freed, two years after slaves were supposed to be freed when US President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

东部时间晚上11点左右-2020年Junteenth十几乎结束了-当我在Twitter上注意到某人分享了YouTube链接到新的碧昂斯歌曲。这是怎么回事?这是泄漏吗?碧昂丝的歌不会泄漏。我点击。它在她的官方YouTube频道上。这就是“黑人游行”。立刻,我对一天的“编队”掉了闪回。我听到开场节奏的寒意。当我说话时,我的下巴掉落的方式“你把黑人与那个克里奥尔混合在一起,”不是因为我被冒犯了,而是因为碧昂丝(Beyoncé)将她的黑色正面和中心置于中心。

那是2016年,我们现在知道这将标志着碧昂斯研究的新时代。现在是2020年,在这个特定的假期中,在她的国家发生内乱时期,我们有“黑人游行”,因为黑人生活问题抗议活动正在世界各地发生。如果您在这一刻要拿起麦克风,最好使它计算。她是碧昂丝的好东西。

“我要回南方 /我回去,后退,后退,”她打开了这首歌。“我的根没有浇水 /种植的地方,像一棵boabab树一样种植。”这在许多层面上都在家里。我是混血儿。我的一个父母是白人,另一个是黑色,我总是觉得自己正在为我长大的白人社区浇水。当我开始在电视上工作,制作娱乐新闻,以迎合白人观众的表演,我很遗憾地发现自己在扮演汤姆叔叔,并试图将黑人展示为少数族裔:穿着良好的,表现良好,表现良好,良好说。直到最近,我一直与我的同事谈论如何在工作,最黑的故事,最热情的故事,被击落或粉刷过。我觉得碧昂丝直接与我说话,但我知道她在与我们所有人说话。

She goes on to sing about Black iconography, like the Ankh, that never gets mentioned much outside of museums, let alone in mainstream music. But it's right before she reaches the chorus where she hits me again:

"Being Black, baby, that’s the reason why they always mad, yeah, they always mad, yeah."

起初,我通过警察的镜头解释了这一点,从而消除了黑色皮肤无罪的推定。然后,我想到这是一种翻转“愤怒的黑人女人/男人”的方式。我生气还是你只是为了我的黑人和授权而生气?我敢肯定,还有更多我尚未解锁的含义。但是,即使没有在两行之间阅读,这也是一个美味的陈述。

然后是合唱:

“对我的民谣(我的民族)说话,抬起嘴唇,如lipo(lipo)。”

嗯,碧昂丝(Beyoncé)召集了爱上黑色美学的白人(但不是我们的盟友)吗?你知道那些。他们是带有唇部填充剂的Instagram女孩,接受手术以达到黑人妇女的曲线和弯曲,使皮肤晒黑的阴影比它们更黑,躺着婴儿头发……我在看着你,卡戴珊(Kardashians)。

"Trust me, they gon' need an army / Rubber bullets bouncin' off me."

We've all seen the images of protesters injured by police firing rubber bullets at their faces at point blank range. But it's going to take more than that to break this movement. We're fighting for people’s lives, and that's not hyperbole. From Trayvon Martin to Rayshard Brooks, and all the names we know and don't know, before, between, and after.

"Made a picket sign off your picket fence / Take it as a warning."

你知道卑鄙的女孩when Regina George pulls up in the car with her friends and tells Cady, "Get in loser, we're going shopping"? Well, I'm replacing Regina George with Beyoncé: "Get in, Bitch, we're going to tear down the white patriarchy!"

You've got to listen to the song a few times to let things really sink in.

“把我们放在任何地方,我们让它看起来很可爱。”

Haven't Black people (to steal a page from Beyoncé) been making lemons out of lemonade for centuries?

“跑道上的大流行,我的危险品”

她知道她的脸罩上会有她的照片拆卸私人飞机她发行这首歌的那一天在整个互联网上?她的想法。

但是“黑人游行”不仅仅是一首歌。在我什至听到第一次节拍之前,我收到了碧昂丝在Instagram上发布的通知 - 是的,我已经通知了女王。该帖子将我指向她网站的新页面,其中包含100多家黑人拥有企业的目录。她正在利用自己的力量为社区建立基础设施?她从中获得什么?没有什么。只是使她的人民振奋的乐趣。

“购买黑色”很重要,因为社区通常不会传递世代财富,因为该系统本质上是种族主义者,从为您的企业获得银行贷款到试图租赁空间。这就是为什么碧昂斯(Beyoncé)确实通过将这些业务提升到她的平台上来摇晃桌子的原因。“黑人游行”游行。

所以,谢谢你碧昂丝scen后面的工作es and behind the mic. The song's a bop. I can sit still, in my room, by myself and listen to every lyric. I can dance to this song with my friends while we're drunk. And I did both this weekend with equal pleasure. The Black struggle is sewn through the song, but it's her gift to us for a specific occasion. Juneteenth is not a day of mourning slavery. It's a day of celebrating how far we've come and reenergizing for how far we still have to go. Beyoncé's sending out that call to action through great music, because it's the best way she knows how.