Actually, she has...
Posted on 12/08/2015 7:01:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A petition addressed to Adele, President Obama, and Billboard on Change.org demands that the singer admit that she has "little talent" and is succeeding mainly because of her white privilege.
"Adele sold over 3.38 million copies of her album '25' and the media is praising her as if Adele's success has everything to do with talent," reads the petition, written by Rhianna Jones.
"Rather, it's her white privilege that has put her on top," it declares.
The petitioners also "demand that Adele donates her money to African-American causes such as #Blacklivesmatter."
It's not clear why exactly the petition is also addressed to President Obama -- perhaps Ms. Jones is outraged that the leader of the free world hasn't pushed the less important issues like ISIS aside to deal with the more serious ones like a singer's being white and successful at the same time. (I mean, would an executive order requiring Adele to admit she is only successful because she is white and give away her money to people who are not white in order to stay in the country really be too much to ask?)
Honestly, Adele is an interesting target for this kind of criticism. First of all, despite the fact that some might think this would be impossible for a white person, Adele actually had a pretty tough upbringing: Her father was an admitted drunk who walked out on the family when she was just three years old. Second -- white or not -- hardly anyone thinks of Adele as having the typical look of a successful female performer. Whether someone is calling her fat or asking her how she manages to handle weighing more than others in her industry, any discussion of her image concerns how different she looks and how tough it must be to look that way.
Although Jones's petition had just 31 supporters at the time of publication, its very existence is ridiculous enough -- and for so many reasons. After all, even if Adele did have a privileged upbringing and was a size 0 with D-cups, saying that she has just "a little talent" is objectively wrong. "A little talent" is the kind of phrase you use to describe someone who had the best voice in the high-school choir before going on to realize she needed to get a real job. Fan or not, anyone with ears and the ability to know what words mean would have to admit that Adele falls into a different category.
-- Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.
She coulda had it all.
I guess if Adele had been black, she “could have had it all!”
And Oprah is successful because she’s a fat, chicken leg eating loudmouth?
She’s at least less annoying than Taylor Swift.
You know, I don’t even know who this ‘Adele’ is, what she sings or would even recognize her in a restaurant, but she should tell these ignoramuses to got to hell..................
Adele > Whitney Houston
Some people are getting nervous because Adele, along with fellow Brit Leona Lewis, has real talent and shows up some popular “singers” who do not, such as Beyonce.
LOL.
Why were Millini Vanillini big?
Why did they get a Grammy when they couldn’t even sing???
You should give her music a shot, she is super talented.
Wow, we are now judging people based on the color or their skin. Oh wait, isn’t that racism? Oh never mind.
And Yes, She Could Have Been a Contender As Well
Actually Adele is quite the good singer. But I tired of her much faster than the norm for me. Not sure why.
Leona Lewis did a closing performance at the Chinese Olympics, and I was fascinated by her, but, since I never got her name, promptly forgot about her. Years later, the memory came back, so I got on the internet, found out who she was, and ordered her concert appearance DVD. I was astonished at how good she is and what a lavish production it was.
Some people are obsessed by race. It is center stage in their minds.
Normally we would call these people racists. Actually, they are, and I do.
Poor woman has to look at her Blackness each and every day.
How many no-talent blacks are there who can’t do anything but “rap,” yet are famous and filthy rich? Nobody forces anybody to buy Adele’s music.
If things continue like this, the day will come when nobody who’s white will be allowed to be famous or successful, and any white who manages to earn money will have to hand it over to a “black cause.” It really is way past time for whites to wake up.
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