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“What Beyoncé taught me about racism”, was a speech held by Brittany Barron released in 2016, on the TEDx Talks YouTube channel.
The speech is about, how Beyoncé have changed through her career, as she started off in a band, but went solo and was this stereotypical black female singer, where she was sassy and sexy in her songs.
But she changed her ways in 2016 with her song “formation”, and her halftime show at the 50th Superbowl where she paid homage to the Black Panthers. This was a new Beyoncé, some liked it, some didn’t.
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She uses reputations in this little part of the text. “We've heard her music; we've seen her perform” and “We saw her paying homage to the Black Panters at the Superbowl.
We saw her standing against police brutality in her "Formation" video.”. This underlines what Brittany Barron is trying to say, which is that everybody has seen this stereotype, singer that Beyoncé once were, but know she is a different person, who stands up against racism and other problems in society.
In the first few lines of this excerpt, we see some short sentences which is easy to understand as you can’t get much, meaning into short sentences.
The first few sentences are also where she uses reputation. But at the end of this excerpt we have longer sentences, such as “See, we like Beyoncé when she's singing "Bootylicious" or "Single Ladies" because she's sassy, she's sexual, and she is a stereotype of what we want black women to be.”.
This is a long sentence, and words like She/She’s is being used a lot. The sender of this is black so, her message and her points could of course be a bit biased but in a good way, as she is just sharing her opinion as a fellow black sister, and she is clearly speaking facts.
Brittany Barron came up, with a brilliant way to explain why, the racial tensions are so high, “if you spend 10,000 hours intentionally practicing something, you become an expert on that thing.
But here's the catch: once you become an expert in something, about 70% of that action gets relegated to your subconscious.”.
So, for a long time Americans have dehumanized African Americans and now when you try to explain why, you can only give 30% of the answer.
Excellent way of describing, the race problem in America, and easy to believe as, the theory comes from psychologist Malcom Gladwell.
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