Beyoncé Stands with Rioters in New Video

beyonceJust in time to add fuel to the Ferguson fire, superstar singer Beyoncé has re-released a video for her dirge-like, 2013 single “Superpower,” in which she makes rioting against law enforcement look hip and romantic.

The overlong video opens with an image of the Black Power fist – a hint of things to come. Then the camera finds Beyoncé striding in super slo-mo down a stretch of urban Los Angeles devastation in a flesh-baring outfit that is difficult to describe; suffice it to say that, like too much fashion today, it is runway-fabulous but no one would wear it outside of a Beyoncé video. The salient point is that her getup inexplicably pairs this semi-nudity with a niqab, which she draws up over her face, exposing only her eyes.

This apparently displeased some Muslims. Twitter lit up with complaints such as, “Dear Beyoncé: Do you think you’re going to get away with wearing a version of Islamic head-dress, niqab, while promoting your Demonic music?” Another tweet: “Quoting our holy Quran and dressing in a niqab isn’t a fashion statement you dumb beyonce.” In the video’s context, it’s possible that Beyoncé intended for the look to be more Occupy Wall Street than Islamic. Or perhaps she was wearing a niqab to make Muslim head coverings sexier and more culturally acceptable. If so, it failed to convince at least one feminist, who lashed out on Twitter: “Sorry, Beyonce. Probably not in the best interest for women’s rights to make the niqab fashionable. Just sayin’.”

Back to the video. Beyoncé is gradually joined by a growing crowd of chic, wannabe revolutionaries sporting edgy hairstyles and clothing that looks like a privileged designer’s ridiculous fantasy of how urban youth dress. Some of them conceal their identities with gas masks and scarves, Occupy-style, because they know they’re about to commit crimes.

The dirge drags on as Beyoncé pouts, scowls, and growls. Her mob smashes car windows with baseball bats, hurls Molotov cocktails, and burns cop cars while Beyoncé sings: “The laws of the world never stopped us once/’Cause together we got plenty super power.” Except for the music and the ultrachic posturing, it suggests the real-life “sensitive urban zones” of Paris, where immigrant “youth” go on nightly, car-immolating rampages and challenge the police in territorial skirmishes.

As the song draws mercifully to a close, the privileged Beyoncé – having peeled off the niqab and donned a camouflage jacket that costs probably $3000 – faces off with her defiant, multicultural mob of chiseled cheekbones against a line of cops in riot gear. She stands next to a man in a balaclava reminiscent of her niqab. The two of them clasp hands Thelma and Louise-style in anticipation of the confrontation to come. The message: rioting, property destruction, anarchy, and attacking cops are cool – and nothing influences youth more than the aura of cool.

Who cares, you ask? She’s just another left-leaning celebrity exposing her own political ignorance. Why is her video important? It’s important because Beyoncé is arguably the biggest entertainer in the world now. With over 118 million albums sold, she is the top artist of the 2000s, with 17 Grammy awards, a Golden Globe nomination, and untold millions of fans worldwide. Her pop culture influence is incalculable, and pop culture – not politics – is where the progressive control takes root. When Beyoncé weighs in on an issue like the Ferguson tinderbox, her fans absorb the message and pump their fists along with her.

The video was actually first released last December, long before the August 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. Why would Beyoncé believe that this is an appropriate time to put it back in the public eye?

Keep in mind that she is married to rapper Jay-Z, who has none of Beyoncé’s talent but all of her racial supremacism and political radicalism.* His song lyrics are replete with profanity, racial slurs, misogyny, glorification of violence, and expressions of racial grievance – not to mention anti-police hatred. “Dirt Off Your Shoulder” boasts of giving “a middle finger to the law.” A music video titled “No Church in the Wild,” which “Superpower” resembles, celebrates anarchy and depicts police trying to quell a violent riot. And “99 Problems” features a verse about blacks being racially profiled by the “motherfu**ing law.” In 2009 he released a song in honor of the newly-elected Obama entitled “My President is Black” (imagine if a country singer back in 2005 had performed a song called “My President is White”). The massively wealthy Jay-Z (he and his wife have a net worth of $1 billion) has also been a supporter, or at least an exploiter, of the Occupy movement.

The two are arguably Obama’s closest, and certainly most famous, friends in the entertainment industry. MTV even described their relationship with the President as “a mutual affection society” and Jay-Z’s friendship with him a “bromance.” In September 2012, Jay-Z and Beyoncé hosted a $40,000-per-person fundraisingreception which took in more than $4 million for Obama’s re-election campaign. Subsequently the dynamic duo were given State Department permission for a grand, whitewashed tour of the Communist utopia in Cuba, where Jay-Z appeared wearing a Ché T-shirt (in solidarity with a murdering coward who held musicians and blacks in contempt).

Music entertainers have a long tradition of anti-establishment, anti-authoritarian lyrics aimed at a rebellious youth audience. I don’t expect Beyoncé to come out with a pro-police anthem or an ode to Darren Wilson. But to re-release a video that openly advocates violent conflict with the police at this time of heightened tension between blacks and law enforcement is irresponsible at best, and incitement to violence at worst. The fact that Beyoncé is so closely linked to the President of the United States makes it all the more unconscionable, albeit unsurprising, since the “post-racial” Obama, who urged protesters to “stay the course,” hasn’t lifted a finger to quell the violent animus over Ferguson.

* Some of what followed was excerpted and paraphrased from the Horowitz Freedom Center’s Discover the Networks resource site about Jay-Z.

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  • objectivefactsmatter

    I saw this chick in a parody film a few years ago. I thought she was reasonably attractive but no big deal. I kept hearing her name over and over again. Seems like a kind of manufactured fame which would imply that she’s somewhat of a puppet. But whatever.

    http://www.beyoncetribe.it/gallery/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Beyoncé-photoshoot-promo-pics-from-Austin-Powers-in-Goldmember31.jpg

    As far as her “social commentary” I think all of us could do without any of it. And wherever she goes she’s welcome to take her husband along with her. And perhaps even POTUS? Soon? Please?

    • sundance69

      A rich puppet to say the least. Her and her husband are worth $900 million dollars and have their heads so far up OB butt they can’t see the light of day. OB most likely gave them the green light to pour it on. Violence does well with the black community when you want to create chaos.

    • http://johnnyangeladvocacygroup.net JohnnyAngel Advocacy Group

      An organizational puppet for rich elitists w/o a free brain in their body. Stuck on communism….til it’s too late. And whites are falling for this trash. The country is a cesspool, fight it or join it. Otherwise…..GET OUT OF THE WAY !!!

    • SWohio

      According to Michelle Obama, she is a wonderful role model for the Obama girls. I didn’t say it, she did.

  • cheechakos

    Beyonce and Jay Z are financial supporters of the NBPP and the black supremacist 5.% group.

    I can imagine them sitting around cheering for the burning buildings while being completely ignorant to the actual events in Ferguson.

    Sadly her cheap,tacky,trampy and tasteless act is gobbled up by ignorant female children. Even worse young boys try to emulate her drug dealing,brother shooting ,partner stabbing husband

    Charles Manson and Courtney Love are better role models than these 2. And better singers.

    • truebearing

      She stinks as a singer, her songs are pathetic, and she really isn’t a good dancer. She’s nowhere near as good looking as she seems to think she is. “Most beautiful woman in the World” my a*s. Gwyneth Paltrow was chosen by “People Magazine” for the same honor, so like the Nobel Peace Prize, we can write that award off as a bad joke.

    • Elle Lang

      This is such an ignorant comment. Beyonce re-released all of her music videos with the release of her platinum edition of ‘Beyonce’. I don’t know why the author decided to single out this particular music video, and try to make something out of nothing. To say this article is biased is an understatment.

      Beyonce posted on social media the Brown family’s statement regarding the verdict. “We ask that you channel your frustrations in ways that will make a positive change…We respectfully ask that you please keep your protests peaceful.” She is obviously not cheering for the burning buildings.

      Also, to others who have said why Beyonce and Jay-z dont join these protests, they actually have. They joined Trayvon Martin’s mother in her son’s vigil in NYC. They are very active people in these matters and they always promote peace. And that is a FACT.

      It’s annoying to see such bias articles, nonetheless to have the same readers participate in Groupthink.

  • http://johnnyangeladvocacygroup.net JohnnyAngel Advocacy Group

    Liberal communista Hollywood elitists and moneymen/women go on and on. Where they stop ….the gulag knows.

  • Gotcha

    Stay on the lo down Beyoncé – much more to learn.

  • tagalog

    I must admit that I enjoyed the little peekaboo moment in the photo, of the bottom of her left breast showing. Nice touch. Real class. But it got my attention, so it was effective.

    • kiwi41

      If we are lucky , some ” offended ” POS moreslime will kill her in Allahs name; imagine the confusion that would present the moreslime lovers ?
      A black female Hollywood libtard , murdered by a moreslime ……………

  • Dallasyaherd

    She doesnt care but she lost a fan.

  • kiwi41

    Just another BPOS niqqer skank

  • unmergood

    Beyondme is a rodeo clown. i’m really happy when all these fools reveal who and what they really are all about. No brains to think with … they are nobodies with money. unfortunately for some Americans, that makes them smart. Try a Zuckerberg or a Gates or a Bloomberg – Beyondme is a carbon copy! They think dey b smart cuz day got lot of bread.

    • laura r

      its the way the world works. plus you dont know what they may really be thinking. its all business #1.

  • FedUpWithWelfareStates

    Corporate Prostitute…

  • Softly Bob

    Just another clueless celeb coming out with clueless and contradictory statements.
    Nothing is new under the Sun. She’s one of many brain-dead celebrities on the list of dangerously hapless idiots. Nothing to report really.

    Just wait until she gets captured and thrown into some harem when the Muslims finally do take over the World. Let’s see what she has to sing about then.

    • laura r

      dont be stupid. she has the kind of $ that will protect her. YOU DONT. get a grip of who you are & who she is. the problem w/america is that the country is braindead across the board.

  • Dennis Opihory

    I think she andher husband should puttheir money where their mouths are and do it for real-just once I would like tosee these celebrities who advocate this stuff in videos go out on the streets and do it for real-Thelma and louise style. if they did it for real they wouldn’t be dusting off their shoulders but peeing in their pants.

    • Elle Lang

      She participated in the protests for Trayvon Martin a year back. And they always promote peace.

      Beyonce posted on social media the Brown family’s statement regarding the verdict. “We ask that you channel your frustrations in ways that will make a positive change…We respectfully ask that you please keep your protests peaceful.” She is obviously not cheering for the burning buildings.

      Music videos aren’t always meant to be taken literally, especially with Beyonce’s most recent album, which has been her most artistic work to date. You should watch the behind the scenes of ‘Superpower’. The director Jonas Åkerlund discusses the project and how its more about unity and the strength that comes from coming together for a cause.
      It starts at 2:50 but you can watch the whole thing :)

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxlHynVMENM

      • Dennis Opihory

        yeah and then she puts this stuff out. you can’t have it both ways. and show those videos of her inher manolo’s protesting, please.

        • Elle Lang

          They are completely unrelated towards eachother! One is her statement regarding a real life event affecting her people and the other is a music video. She is not promoting violence in that video. Its merely a medium in which she is trying to get her artistic message accross. Do you take every single music video you watch literally?

          Also the time frames, on which her video was first released, and that these events (protest etc.) occured are too far apart to be called intentional on Beyonce’s part.

  • laura r

    if she changed her tune she wouldnt have a career. basically these people are ghettodown. w/out stylists/dressers they would look like any one on the subway. they can be good entertainment. i thought this about the beatles as well when i was 15. its about the music, never listened to what they had to say.

  • laura r

    yes millions world wide.

  • Gazoo1

    She turned Ghetto when she married Obama’s son JayZ

  • JIm

    Foolish woman