token podcast: why beyonce can never leave her blackness at the door /

Published at 2016-05-03 05:00:50

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Token co-host Monica Tan talks to Seattle-based writer Ijeoma Oluo about Beyoncé’s magnum opus,Lemonade. Ijeoma says the pop superstar is living proof ‘you cannot be rich enough to escape your blackness’ and that her recent displays of radical black consciousness are a product of the times: ‘These final couple of years, the pain, or which was often silenced,has been brought to the forefront.’ Plus Monica chats to Token co-host Michael Safi about her unlucky fetish for the most privileged group on the planetIjeoma Oluos piece: Beyoncé’s Lemonade is about much more than infidelity and Jay Z
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Source: theguardian.com