![]() I don’t think I was waiting for Beyoncé to “come out” as Black everything about her seemed rooted in or related to Black culture, from her name to her Dereon jeans to how her particular brand of beauty-light and curvy-was discussed and celebrated and bemoaned for being discussed and celebrated. “How can they be Black? They’re women.” The white man next to him suddenly realizes: “I think they might be both.” “I don’t understand,” a terrified white man screams in the SNL skit, hell breaking loose around him, as he learns that Kerry Washington, too, is Black. A group of cops boycotted her tour performance in Miami in response that April. There was also the unmistakable imagery of the video, calling out the negligence weaponized against the Black people of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Shortly after Beyoncé’s Super Bowl 50 performance in 2016, Saturday Night Live ran a short titled “The Day Beyoncé Turned Black.” It was an exaggerated version of what really happened that year-when, at the halftime show, she performed “Formation,” a clear departure from her previous catalog, celebrating her “baby hairs and Afros” and “Negro nose” all while dressed in full Black Panther regalia.
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