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Beyoncé Falls Victim to the Grammy Awards’ Racism
Daily Beast ^ | February 13, 2017 | Kevin Fallon

Posted on 02/13/2017 7:43:52 AM PST by C19fan

Once again, the Grammy Awards got caught with their pants around their ankles. It’s a show that confused some band named Twenty One Pilots accepting an award in their underwear for a “moment”—for an encapsulation of this time in music, in our culture, in our history, really. But then left it up to Adele to give the credit that was due to Beyoncé for her transformative album Lemonade.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: race
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To: C19fan

I never watch any of these asinine awards shows. They are bloated with fraudulent self-important leftard hypocrites preening for each other and the MSM. I could not care less....


21 posted on 02/13/2017 8:00:15 AM PST by Enchante (Hoping the Clintonistas are gone from our public life forever!!)
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To: C19fan

25 is a phenomenally GOOD album...

I never doubted for a second that Adele was going to clean up last night. Heck, for my money, “Hello” is one of the weakest songs on the album. That’s how strong it is.

Lemonade? Meh.... I’ve listened to several. Wouldn’t spend a nickel on ANY song on it.


22 posted on 02/13/2017 8:01:35 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: C19fan

Poor Bouncy. She’s a victim. Those pesky honkies.


23 posted on 02/13/2017 8:02:44 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: C19fan

#GrammysSoWhite


24 posted on 02/13/2017 8:03:14 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin
Is this satire?

My first thought too. Glancing at the article, the writer is dead serious. This is beyond pathetic.

25 posted on 02/13/2017 8:03:14 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: C19fan

Not to worry. The Oscars have seen fit to nominate “minorities” in all major categories. Be certain there will be a clean sweep this year to make up for the “blackout” from last year (plus there is that need to irtue-signal).


26 posted on 02/13/2017 8:04:31 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: C19fan

The writer is apparently unaware that blacks constitute 13 percent of the US population and an even smaller percentage of the world from which the Grammy nominees are drawn.


27 posted on 02/13/2017 8:04:54 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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To: C19fan

A lot of people are saying Beyoncé was snubbed somehow because of her race?? Also that her album was transformative???

I am going to need an explanation. Maybe my white privilege is getting in my way. I love Billie Holliday, who sang great stuff as a black woman almost a century ago, who experienced racism for real. You know, like not being allowed to sleep in hotels on her tour, sometimes having to sleep in cars etc. who had to use the SERVICE ENTRANCE at clubs where she performed because someone with her skin color WASNT ALLOWED in the front doorway.

Many of Billie’s self-written songs were about how her man was abusive or cheated on her but she took him back because Love.

Beyoncé’s “transformative” album appears to have been about her husband Jay Z cheating on her and lying to her, and she took him back because Love.

So I need an explanation of the transformative and why we must give the award to her. Anyone?


28 posted on 02/13/2017 8:05:49 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: C19fan

Wow! That little episode was oozing white guilt. “I’m white, I’m British, I have black friends which are segregated from my regular friend list. But if I make this entire speech about you, Beyoncé who should have won and fake a whiny voice, I won’t feel so bad about winning and being white.


29 posted on 02/13/2017 8:05:52 AM PST by Toespi
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To: C19fan

The author of this crap has to be white. It smells of white guilt and white knight syndrome.


30 posted on 02/13/2017 8:07:13 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Ransomed
It’s like people are watching a huge pile of crap and then get upset when flies land on it.

Or not enough flies. Or the wrong kind of flies.

Suffice it to say that they really don't need a rhyme nor reason to become upset.
31 posted on 02/13/2017 8:10:13 AM PST by ExTxMarine (Public sector unions: A & B agreeing on a contract to screw C!)
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To: Yaelle

Excellent post.


32 posted on 02/13/2017 8:17:25 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: C19fan

My wife is a jazz singer and Grammy voter, so we had to listen to every nominee in the top categories. 99% of them were pure garbage. We both hated Adele’s song “Hello,” but she still voted for it for Song of the Year because it was the only thing nominated that we thought even qualified as an actual song rather than just a production job. For Album of the Year, she voted for Sturgill Simpson. We didn’t like it all that much, but it was better than the other choices. It did win for Best Country Album, but it wasn’t even in her top three in that category. BTW, all the really good music is relegated to the non-televised afternoon ceremony.

Beyonce turns out overproduced, overpraised, tuneless crap that requires her being propped up by 20 different producers and “songwriters” on every track to try to make it sound like something worth listening to, which it never, ever is (and that opinion has nothing to do with race; I’d say the same about Katy Perry and any number of other generic white pop stars). If “Lemonade” was the most influential, moving musical experience of your lifetime, or even of the past year, then I feel truly sorry for you. Someone needs to introduce you to real music.


33 posted on 02/13/2017 8:18:33 AM PST by HHFi
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To: C19fan

The only possible reason that a black person doesn’t get something of value is because of racism. Case closed.


34 posted on 02/13/2017 8:19:32 AM PST by all the best
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To: Yaelle
Sammy Davis Jr. had to use the service entrance too when performing,until Frank Sinatra put and end to it.
35 posted on 02/13/2017 8:20:54 AM PST by 4yearlurker (Work hard,live free,thank God!)
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Polka got scrapped in 2009... I remain hopeful that this genre will be reinstated.

Anybody remember the palatial polka clubs up in gray lakes states? Everybody went to those. Truckers, teachers, business owners, rich, poor, longhair hippy freaks, it didn’t matter - polka was serious bidniss.


36 posted on 02/13/2017 8:21:41 AM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: C19fan
Only 10 black artists have won Album of the Year in Grammy history

OK, how many white artists have won the R&B album of the year? Now there's some racism.

37 posted on 02/13/2017 8:27:23 AM PST by AZLiberty (A is now A once again.)
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To: Enchante

exactly!! I haven’t watched then in YEARS!!


38 posted on 02/13/2017 8:28:09 AM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: C19fan

Perhaps Beyoncé would be better served if the Grammys were held in Cuba.


39 posted on 02/13/2017 8:36:38 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: C19fan

Wait, aren’t these artists and the members all enlightened liberals? And yet they still claim racism...


40 posted on 02/13/2017 8:44:28 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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