Why Won't "Becky" Let Black Girls Rock?

[ismnotwasm]

Why do White people always have to be the point? Wait, don’t answer. We know the answer to these rhetorical questions: White supremacy and patriarchy apparently won’t enable you to fully like yourselves without hating on us first. BOOM!

Usually in this weekly column, I share what I think and know. But between the social-media outrage directed at First Lady Michelle Obama for having the audacity to publicly declare that “Black girls rock!” at an event of the same name, and Cosmopolitan’s fashion advice about trends that need to die only with women of color in the “R.I.P.” section right next to White women headlined “Hello, Gorgeous!”
I want to cede the floor to White readers and ask what this is about. Because Becky, you got some ‘splainin to do. Why are so many of you bothered by the FLOTUS, or anyone, proclaiming that Black girls rock?

What makes you instantly process that statement as a war cry of Black superiority and/or an attack on little ole you? What sort of pleasure leads you to claim victim status, to reach into your Rolodex of baseless examples of reverse racism? - See more at: http://www.damemagazine.com/2015/04/06/why-wont-becky-let-black-girls-rock#sthash.kxyubdtP.dpuf

[handmade34]

1. don't have the answer to your question...

what I know though is that "Black Girls Rock!!" and Michelle Obama rocks... I am so sorry that there are white women bothered by this

[TDale313]

2. Really good article.

It saddens and angers me that this article was necessary. It would never occur to me to be offended by the concept of celebrating black girls, although it's sadly not surprising that there were some who were. It's not a zero sum game. Raising up black girls- celebrating their accomplishments doesn't lessen everyone else. Quite the opposite.

[gollygee]

3. I don't understand

why when people hear "group A rocks" they think that groups b, c, and d don't rock, or that their rocking status has to be mentioned any time someone else is said to rock. There's a sense of being the center of the universe in that.

[F4lconF16]

4. Wait, that was a thing?

Wow, I missed that. I can't believe people are taking issue with this.

Oh wait, yes I can.

Smh.

[bravenak]

5. Damn damn damn!!

Exactly!

[ismnotwasm]

9. So glad!

[bravenak]

10. Thank you!

[sheshe2]

6. Thanks for the exellent article by Stacey Patton.

She did a great take down of Becky. Typical that she would make herself the victim here.

"Cosmopolitan’s fashion advice about trends that need to die only with women of color in the “R.I.P.” section right next to White women headlined “Hello, Gorgeous!”

was just plain vile.

[ismnotwasm]

8. Yeah that was messed up

Ths came across my Facebook feed when I was at work--had to post it

[sheshe2]

11. Thanks ism.

Stacey did a fine job taking her sorry ass down.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. It doesn't, really, make a ton of sense.

I mean, when a band declares that "Cleveland Rocks", it's not an insult to all other cities, is it?