On Saturday February 6, 2016, one day before Super Bowl Fifty; Beyoncé Knowles released a music video for her new song “Formation .” Filmed in New Orleans with the devastation caused by hurricane Katrina as a backdrop. The video featured a scenes where Beyoncé sits atop a half-submerged police car that continues sinking. Giving a nod to the Black Lives Matter movement, “at the end of the clip, a line of riot-gear-clad police officers surrender, hands raised, to a dancing black child in a hoodie, and the camera then pans over a graffito: Stop Shooting Us ” (Caramanica, Morris and Wortham 2016). As the title of the song suggests, Beyoncé embraces her racial formation with lyrics like: My daddy Alabama, Momma Louisiana
You mix that negro with that Creole make a Texas bama
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" The sketch shows the reaction of white people after learning by watching the “Formation” music video that Beyoncé is "unapologetically black." The video “shows white people freaking out to Beyoncé’s lyrics about black culture as they realize the pop superstar is black. People begin to act as if it’s the end of the world as they know it and are forced to leave the country in masses after they discover other popular black actors — even Kerry Washington. One person starts to panic about Washington's starring role on Scandal saying, "But … she's on ABC" (Staff 2016).
Beyoncé’s “Formation” song, video and Super Bowl performance not only awoke her racial formation and Black radicalism, but also awoke the racial consciousness of White America as they call Black groups with guns “militants”, as with The Black Panthers and White groups with guns are called “militia.” The Saturday Night Live video "The Day Beyoncé Turned Black” shows how fundamental color blindness is to White America’s structural racism and the hypocrisy of their views of
You mix that negro with that Creole make a Texas bama
I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros …show more content…
" The sketch shows the reaction of white people after learning by watching the “Formation” music video that Beyoncé is "unapologetically black." The video “shows white people freaking out to Beyoncé’s lyrics about black culture as they realize the pop superstar is black. People begin to act as if it’s the end of the world as they know it and are forced to leave the country in masses after they discover other popular black actors — even Kerry Washington. One person starts to panic about Washington's starring role on Scandal saying, "But … she's on ABC" (Staff 2016).
Beyoncé’s “Formation” song, video and Super Bowl performance not only awoke her racial formation and Black radicalism, but also awoke the racial consciousness of White America as they call Black groups with guns “militants”, as with The Black Panthers and White groups with guns are called “militia.” The Saturday Night Live video "The Day Beyoncé Turned Black” shows how fundamental color blindness is to White America’s structural racism and the hypocrisy of their views of