Beyonce

In this video of Brittany Barron, she connects the future and the past together. What she is explaining is she talks about Beyonce and slavery together along with racism. How slavery is still in our lives today however, it is not as bad as it used to be. It is not as bad as it was used to be, but we still see it. Whether it was in songs or right across the street or even on television. She used Beyonce and her song “Formation” and connected it to slavery. She than explains what Beyonce’s song is about. Which is police brutality and racism. Slavery is a topic which some people do not want to talk about. It has made a huge impact in people’s lives today. Barron then talks about slavery and when it started and how people should see color and not try to avoid it. Which most people do now days because people are so quickly to judge. This also has to do with racism because of the police brutality. Racism as the book explains is, “…a category of people who share certain inherited physical characteristics, such as skin color, facial features, and stature.” (Social problems: Continuity and Change, 2016). This ties into police brutality because today we only see African Americans and Latinos get the harsh punishment when they are doing nothing wrong. They are not fighting back, they are not using aggressive force, but some end up getting killed and the cop who is responsible for it does not get any time for it. They get put on leave, but it is paid for. While on the other hand if it was a Caucasian person there, they would not get any force against them. This shows how racism is defined in the world and everyone think of each person differently than they should. This can relate to people in their own life if they have been through these situations or similar situations. Beyonce can relate to many different people because of her background. Many people look up to her because of her ethnicity and where she is at in her life now. People can be inspired by her and look how far she has accomplished in her life with by the age of forty.

Social problems: Continuity and change. (2016). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. Retrieved from https://open.lib.umn.edu/socialproblems/. CC BY NC SA 4.0 license.

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