It's that bit about "the country that enslaved her" (the writer is responsible for that - but it seems to precede her remarks on the topic), then saying she can't be patriotic because of all those things...it offended a lot of people.
As far as I know, Alicia Keys is not currently, nor has she ever been, "enslaved". It just annoyed me.
I've read some of her interviews. It's a very bizarre form of fitting-in complex. You're not the only person annoyed *lol*
Much like Halle Berry, she was abandoned by her black father and raised in a near-totally white environment by her white mother, and feels the need to Mau-Mau the world to compensate.
Indeed. That comment still boils my blood. What an ungrateful wretch Ms. Keys is. I was interested in her music enough to get her debut album but she made that comment and now I wouldn't spit on her if she were on fire.
It's fairly obvious that quite a few of her post African ancestors were not enslaved.
I find her quite attractive but that street ebonics is a real turn off.
Shame more of these pretty mulatto celebrity gals don't take a cue from Thandie Newton.....poise, grace and no whining.