Petition Demands Adele Admit She’s Successful Only Because She’s White

National Review ^ | 12/07/2015 | Katherine Timpf

[ladyjane]

Poor woman is right.

Good thing she has finally found the ‘real’ reason she is a loser.

[Albion Wilde]

One of the first times I heard her album was at the home of black friends. *smh*

[joshua c]

Doesn’t she compete with white people for this fame?

Last I looked there are a whole lot of white people and they all have “white privilege”.

[Let's Roll]

Is this satire?

[ex91B10]

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character".

Martin Luther King, Jr.

[NorthMountain]

She should just set fire to the rain ... meet them all at Skyfall.

[AIL]

I always thought she was overrated. She yells, moans, and makes other bedroom noises rather than singing. Popular singers have been moaning for years. I never thought it was because she is white. Pop music loves half baked talent. They sign people who sound like they are being intimate when they “sing”.

[Defiant]

She considers rising at 9 early, and she arrives at work at 11?

[tophat9000]

This is a joke?...right?... Bueller?....Bueller?...

[submarinerswife]

My Husband had heard her name and thought she was just the flavor of the day, singer of crap music like so many are these days, until I told him that she wrote and sung the theme from “Skyfall”.

Now he knows who she is. Total talent.

[CPONav]

Until I saw her pic just now, I had no idea what race she was. I still don’t care.

[MrB]

I think they define her having to look in the mirror as “systemic white privilege”.

[Boogieman]

Yeah fans of the autotune brigade get defensive when a real singer gets attention.

[Calvin Locke]

Rhianna Jones is a failure because she has degrees in French Literature and International Visual studies.

Given her sense of "style" in #19, I'd say she was given her degree in IVS, not because she earned it, but because of AA - they couldn't fail her, so they "degree'd" her to get rid of her.

Color me not impressed with dragging clothes on the ground, and not bothering to remove jewelry for cleaning now and then.

Talk about a walking health hazard. I'm sure Rose [Bakery] is just thrilled when she strolls through.

[mjp]

"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.

envy + race card + obsession with empty concept of white priviledge = resentment against achievement

[Vendome]

Stoopet.

I have an amazing 4 octave voice and sing a variety of styles and songs.

Did I mention I’m white?

How do I get to the to the topIof the pile so I can kick Shiite down all over my non white competitors?

[Vendome]

Pretty

[MeshugeMikey]

The petitioners also “demand that Adele donates her money to African-American causes such as #Blacklivesmatter.”

I Demand that Milli Vanilli Pay Reperomations!!! to ALL of Us who ever heard them not sing....

#whiteearsmatter

[Vendome]

I guess I would hit that...

[Stentor]

Adele credits Sarah Palin for her success(not a video)

I watched the show she did with Graham Norton on the BBC where she talked about this. (Exeter sent me a new interociter. No IP block could stand up to it.)She's impressive in her lack of pomposity.