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Why Won't "Becky" Let Black Girls Rock?
Why do White people always have to be the point? Wait, don’t answer. We know the answer to these rhetorical questions: White supremacy and patriarchy apparently won’t enable you to fully like yourselves without hating on us first. BOOM!
Usually in this weekly column, I share what I think and know. But between the social-media outrage directed at First Lady Michelle Obama for having the audacity to publicly declare that “Black girls rock!” at an event of the same name, and Cosmopolitan’s fashion advice about trends that need to die only with women of color in the “R.I.P.” section right next to White women headlined “Hello, Gorgeous!”
I want to cede the floor to White readers and ask what this is about. Because Becky, you got some ‘splainin to do. Why are so many of you bothered by the FLOTUS, or anyone, proclaiming that Black girls rock?
What makes you instantly process that statement as a war cry of Black superiority and/or an attack on little ole you? What sort of pleasure leads you to claim victim status, to reach into your Rolodex of baseless examples of reverse racism? - See more at: http://www.damemagazine.com/2015/04/06/why-wont-becky-let-black-girls-rock#sthash.kxyubdtP.dpuf
Usually in this weekly column, I share what I think and know. But between the social-media outrage directed at First Lady Michelle Obama for having the audacity to publicly declare that “Black girls rock!” at an event of the same name, and Cosmopolitan’s fashion advice about trends that need to die only with women of color in the “R.I.P.” section right next to White women headlined “Hello, Gorgeous!”
I want to cede the floor to White readers and ask what this is about. Because Becky, you got some ‘splainin to do. Why are so many of you bothered by the FLOTUS, or anyone, proclaiming that Black girls rock?
What makes you instantly process that statement as a war cry of Black superiority and/or an attack on little ole you? What sort of pleasure leads you to claim victim status, to reach into your Rolodex of baseless examples of reverse racism? - See more at: http://www.damemagazine.com/2015/04/06/why-wont-becky-let-black-girls-rock#sthash.kxyubdtP.dpuf
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what I know though is that "Black Girls Rock!!" and Michelle Obama rocks... I am so sorry that there are white women bothered by this 
I mean, when a band declares that "Cleveland Rocks", it's not an insult to all other cities, is it? 