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CBS and Its Peculiar Practices in the Censoring of Drunk In Love
Yes, this is yet another piece written about Beyonce and her latest album. I have seen people label the tone and impact of Yonceās latest album as a display of a,ā hip hop generation feminist sensibility.ā This feminist label/association is primarily due to Beyonceās announcement that she is a, āmodern day feminist,ā and the fact that the Noel āDetailā Fisher (the producer of Flawless) sampled the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie impassioned words from her speech entitled We Should All Be Feminist in the hit record Flawless, which happened to spawn the new highly hashtagable catchphrase, āI woke up like this.ā It is important to note that many that have vaulted Beyonce into the oft-politicized terrain of being associated with the F-Word have taken Beyās association with Feminism out of context. Mrs. Carter calling herself a āmodern day feministā comes from an interview that she conducted with British Vogue. In the interview Beyonce was asked if she considers herself a feminist, which lead to Beyonce saying: That word can be very extreme ⦠But I guess I am a modern-day feminist. I do believe in equality. Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything? Iām just a woman and I love being a woman. ⦠I do believe in equality and that we have a way to go and itās something thatās pushed aside and something that we have been conditioned to accept. ⦠But Iām happily married. I love my husband. This is obviously a far cry from a ringing endorsement, or willing association with the historical/political label of being a feminist, but the point of this piece is not to question Mrs. Carterās association with feminism. Nor is this piece about certain feminists (Pro-Beyonce and Anti-Beyonce) ignoring the fact Beyonce questions, āWhy do you have to choose what type of woman you are?ā And that in a sense, Beyonce is saying that the feminist box/label is limiting her personal potential/definition of what it means to be a woman. This piece is more so about connecting Yonceās investment in female empowerment, and having control of their bodies/sexuality and the song Drunk In Love featuring (her husband) Shawn āJay Z/Hovā Carter. My aim is to critically engage the lyrics of the record Drunk In Love. I want to unpack what it means (based upon the songs lyrics) to be drunk in love, and how being drunk and in love looks (again based on the songs lyrics) within the record. Beyonce and Jay Z opened the 2014 Grammy Awards with a performance of their hit record Drunk In Love. āDressed in Saint Laurent black tights, custom bra, La Perla collar body and Nichole de Carle body suit, complete with wavy wet hair, Beyonce belted out the lyrics to the song ā expertly twirling in a chair amid strobe lights for the mid-tempo jam. Beyonce completed her outfit with Stuart Weitzman heels and Jennifer Fisher yellow gold and large dagger earringsā (Hollywood Reporter). Jay Z on the other hand was simply decked in the classic formal uniform of masculine decadent fashion- a timeless black tuxedo. This leads one to wonder why we know so much about everything worn by Beyonce, and so little about Jay Z (while ironically Beyonce clearly has on less clothing than Jay Z). The first thing that I thought about while watching this performance (remember this was the opening performance for the Grammys, so it was 8:00 pm) was that this was a bit risquĆ© for not only the Grammys, but also for CBS who had a full blown controversy on their hands via Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake during the now infamous Super Bowl XXXVIII, Nipplegate 2004. Side note: America lost their minds when Janet Jacksonās nipple was exposed for less than one second by way of a, āwardrobe malfunction,ā but the Red Hot Chilli Peppers did an entire set with four nipples exposed in the 2014 Super Bowl, and nobody had a problem with that- but I digress. The Beyonce performance (which was essentially an homage to the iconic 1980s film Flash Dance) was essentially a primetime network television version of a striptease, a mild erotica of sorts, set to her self-created theme music. Sex sells. I get it. People have a right to express their sexuality however they choose. I get it. This is not myself playing the role of the politics of sexual censorship police. Iām just calling it not only as I saw, but also as it was intended to be seen by all parties involved in the performance. What I did find interesting was the fact that CBS saw fit to edit the audio, censoring what they considered risquĆ© lyrics within the song during two points of Beyonceās performance. The lyrics that were worthy of censoring was when Beyonce sang, āHow the hell did this shit happenā¦ā This seemed peculiar to me, being that the Supreme Court ruled that the FCC is now prohibited from fining and sanctioning any sort of obscene and indecent content. In the past, TV networks like CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, PBS, and others ā had to censor certain curse words within programming in order to adhere to specific policies and avoid fines or other infractions. In other words, the choice to censor the words āhellā and āshitā from Beyonceās performance of Drunk In Love was the choice of those at CBS, not the FCC, and the slippery slope of what is (and or is not) deemed as indecent (Beyonceās actual performance in comparison to verbal obscenities) is then also a decision of those at CBS. This lead me to focus, not on which lyrics were censored, but which lyrics (and subsequently the themes associated with said lyrics) were allowed to flood the primetime public airwaves. The censored portion of Drunk In Love happens to be the bridge that connects the verseās lyrics to the hook (or chorus). As I mentioned the words āhellā and āshitā were not allowed to be played to the viewing audience, but let us look at the bridge in totality. During the bridge, Beyonce sings:
āWe woke up in the kitchen saying āHow the hell did this shit happen?ā, oh baby. Drunk in love, we be all night. Last thing I remember is our beautiful bodies grinding off in that club. Drunk in love.
My question is, why was this portion of the bridge suitable for the primetime public airwaves? Look, letās get this out of the way; the song is about getting hyper-inebriated, having sex, and not knowing how it happened. Now, in the world of Jay Z and Beyonce thatās the recipe for a hit record, but in the real world, that is the recipe for date rape. According to the Department of Justice, āApproximately 90 percent of date rapes happen with alcohol involved.ā A 2009 study of campus sexual assault found that by the time they are seniors, almost 20 percent of college women will become victims, overwhelmingly by a fellow classmate. Very few will ever report it to authorities. The same study states that more than 80 percent of campus sexual assaults involve alcohol (Krebs et. al.). Iām in the state of California and in the state of California, if you have sex with an individual who voluntarily consumes enough alcohol and/or drugs to the point where he/she is unable to resist the sexual encounter, prosecutors could charge you with Penal Code 261 PC date rape. This also applies to married couples. California rape law holds that every act of sexual intercourse must be consensual. This is why even a married individual can be convicted of raping his/her spouse under Penal Code 262 spousal rape. What does this have to do with Yonceās lyrics? Quite honestly, it has everything to do with these lyrics. Drunk In Love is (seemingly) about two hyper-inebriated people that were having sex all night. Based upon Drunk In Loveās bridge, Beyonce and her partner awoke in the kitchen (not our kitchen, which is an important distinction when we think about being familiar with a location) unaware of how they arrived at the kitchen, but it seemed obvious that something sexual had happened āall night.ā Based on the bridge, Yonce and her partner were not only ādrunkā and āin love,ā but they were also incapable of remembering āhow this shit happened.ā But wait a minute; there is another perspective to take into consideration. We have to take Jay Zās recollection of the night of drunken love to complete this story. Mr. Carter emerges onto the record providing not only the male perspective of the aforementioned night, but also (unlike Mrs. Carter) Jay Z provides a detailed account of the drunken love session that lasted āall night.ā Based upon Jay Zās verse in the song, the night transpired like this:
Hold up, Stumbled all in the house time to back up all of that mouth/ That you had all in the car, talking ābout you the baddest bitch thus far/ Talking 'bout you be repping that third, I wanna see all the shit that I heard Know I sling Clint Eastwood, hope you can handle this curve/ Foreplay in the foyer, fucked up my Warhol/ Slip the panties right to the side/ Aināt got the time to take draws off, on site/ Catch a charge I might, beat the box up like Mike In '97 I bite, Iām Ike, Turner, turn up Baby no I donāt play, now eat the cake, Anna Mae Said, āEat the cake, Anna Mae!ā
Again, when one does a close reading of Jay Zās lyrics in Drunk In Love you can see that he, (unlike Beyonce) is fully cognizant of the situation at hand, and is capable of giving a full recount of the events that lead them into the kitchen. Beyonce was alone in pondering, āhow did this shit happen.ā According to Jay Z, Beyonce, āstumbled all in the house,ā and it was time for her to āback up all of that mouth,ā about how she was the, ābaddest bitch thus far.ā There was āForeplay in the foyerā that leads to the damaging of his Andy Warhol painting. The sense of urgency within the situation lead Jay Z to, āslip the panties,ā of Beyonce, āright to the side,ā because he did not have the ātimeā to take her ādrawers off.ā This sexual encounter was happening, āon site.ā This then lead Jay Z to reveal the true nature of the sexual encounter, because (in his own words) he felt as if this sexual session could lead him to catching, āa charge.ā For those unaware, to potentially, ācatch a charge,ā means that one is performing an act that can result in legal problems and possible incarceration. Problematically, Jay Z then mentions that he, ābeat the box up like Mike,ā (as in former Heavy Weight Champion Mike Tyson who was convicted of rape in 1992) which translates into the level in which he punished the vagina (āboxā is a derogatory term for female genitalia) of his wife Beyonce. Post Jay Z exposing the listening/viewing audience as to how he is a particular type of heavy weight champ in the sex ring, he then makes the controversial association between he and Beyonce with Ike and Tina Turner. Like Ike and Tina Turnerās Proud Mary, Drunk In Love speaks to the ways in which Jay and Beyonce, āneva eva do nothing nice and easyā in the sexual sphere, according to Jayās verse they prefer to (like Ike and Tina Turner), ādo it nice and ruff.ā As Mark Anthony Neal said in a recent blog piece, āWe may never know what exactly Mrs. Knowles-Carter and Mr. Carterās intents were with the song or why they fully felt the need to share as they have,ā we do know that when Jay Z made reference to the scene in Whatās Love Got to Do with It? (1993), the film adaptation of Ms. Turnerās autobiography I, Tina (1986), when he said, āBaby know I donāt play/ Now eat the cake Anne Mae!ā In this particular scene in the film, Ike Turner (played by Lawrence Fishburn) and Tina Turner (played by Angela Bassett) are in the midst of a domestic dispute in a public space. But, for me, the line reminded me of the first time that I had ever seen sexual violence in a film- when Ike Turnerās character rapes Tina Turner in their home recoding studio. Again, to echo Mark Anthony Neal, I have no idea as to why Jay Z chose to go with the Mike Tyson and Ike Turner references in regards to painting the picture of this sexual setting for Drunk In Love, but we do know that those two men were connected to violent sexual experiences with women. After really thinking about how clear Jay Z was about the entire sexual experience, and how Beyonce, āwoke up in the kitchen saying, āHow the hell did this shit happen,ā I took another look at both Jay Z and Beyonceās lyrics. What I found was that within this song, Beyonce mentions drinking or being drunk 18 times- Jay Z mentions being drunk 0 times. This may explain why Jay Z can fully recall all of the details of the sexual encounter, while Beyonce is wondering how she ended up in a kitchen drunk, again searching for answers to her question, āhow the hell did this shit happen.ā As I mentioned before, according to the Department of Justice, āApproximately 90 percent of date rapes happen with alcohol involved.ā But there is one detail that I failed to focus on; Beyonce did remember something from that night. According to Beyonce, āThe last thing that I remember is our beautiful bodies grinding off in that club.ā So if, āthe last thingā that Beyonce remembers was, āoff in that club,ā where Beyonce had been drinking, and that the person that she was involved with had her, āfaded,ā making her, āwant,ā him and then she awoke in the morning (presumably naked) in a kitchen, there is a possibility that something had been slipped into Beyonceās drink. Maybe Rohypnol had been put into her alcoholic beverage at the club. āMany victims have reported that after Rohypnol was slipped into their drinks, they blacked out and woke up unsure of what had happened during the course of their blackout. Also, it is important to note that the loss of memory does not necessarily mean a loss of consciousness. Victims can be awake and still experience complete memory loss of the incident. The loss of memory may prevent people from reporting the crime soon enough to be tested for the drugā (Campus Advocacy Network, University of Illinois), or maybe the popular date rape drug GHB was given to her without her knowledge. Whatever the case based on the lyrics, something happened to Beyonce at the club while she was drinking and hours later she had awaken, wondering, āhow the hell did this shit happen,ā to her. Now, I know that there will be some people that will read this and say that this is, ājust a song,ā but I think that there is something dangerous about the promotion of a song that glamorizes being so drunk after leaving a nightclub that you canāt even remember how you ended up in a kitchen in the morning after having sex, āall night.ā I wonder what is the message being received by the listener when Jay Z talks about potentially catching, āa case,ā for having sex with a woman that āstumbled all in the house?ā I am also wondering why did CBS open up the 2014 Grammys, at 8:00pm with an erotic performance of a record about drunk (and potentially drugged) ālove,ā and felt that censoring the words āhellā and āshitā would make the Beyonce and Jay Z performance suitable for a primetime viewing audience.
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White politicians who say āall lives matterā is similar to the founding fathers saying āall men were created equalā while they had slaves.]
Yall should follow Blake on twitter. Incredible guy
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Damn⦠Never thought my tweet would get reposted this much. All power to the people.Ā
Here are 10 reasons why the āall lives matterā argument intellectually does not make sense: 1. Were all lives stolen from their native land in shackles in chains? 2. Are all lives enslaved? 3. Are all lives robbed of their native language? 4. Do white terrorists execute all lives in places of worship? 5. Are all lives subjected to Jim Crow racial terror? 6. Are all lives taught to hate themselves? 7. Do the cops murder all lives disproportionately? 8. Do all lives have access to equal educational opportunities? 9. Are all lives discriminated in housing policies? 10. Are all lives working against 500 years of past and current racial hostility and violence? All lives will truly matter when Black Lives Matter. And if you continue to say all lives matter instead of Black Lives Matter, you are either intellectually immature or intellectually dishonest. twitter: @BlakeDontCrack
http://afrikanblackcoalition.org/2015/06/10-reasons-why-saying-all-lives-matter-is-intellectually-immature/

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12/13/14. From my front door. UCB Black Student Union organizes peaceful march through the streets of berkeley. Cops accompany on bikes. Parents bring children. Letās see how the media spins this one into a riot as they march into Oakland. Love you all, stay safe.
Black students at UC Berkeley have taken over the Golden Bear Cafe during their peak hours to speak out and share their stories. Hella love and respect to every one of you #ferguson2Cal
"Growing up in the South, (other Black) people have always asked me if I was mixed. Iām a teacher now, and my students are always perplexed about my racial identity. Asking me if I am Latina, asking me if I am white. I have resolved that perhaps they have not encountered many light-skinned Black people in their lives. Whereas most of my family is fair skin and identify as Black or Creole. I am never offended, but I am always shocked that other Black people donāt see me as Black. We all just need some more exposure of our culture, our shades, our talents, and our experiences."
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UC Berkeley student protest in support of Black liberation struggles across America in Berkeley, Ca on 12/13/2014
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It is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our identities and our aspirations.ā - James BaldwinĀ

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UjimaĀ : collective work and responsibility. #millionmanmarch #millionmanmarchla #ferguson2cal #justice #ujima
THE ARTWORK BY HALEIGH NICKERSON. Black Power and Flowers offers a new lens to its listeners. By using songs as a place of diary and reflection these songs live eternally as memories, emotions, thoughts, and very honest reflections on my blackness, my ego, states of consciousness and spirituality. The Flower represents the blossoming of the mind once entering the state of light in the empty room which is deep meditation and peace within. The Black Power Fist are the petals. Kwame Ture uttered Black Power in his 1966 speech at a Demonstration in Mississippi āThe only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppinā us is to take over. We been saying freedom for six years and we aināt got nuthinā. What we gonna start saying now is Black Power!ā ⦠. The crowd was right with him. They picked up his thoughts immediately. āBlack Power!ā the people roared in unison. This same self-determination should serve as the basis for people seeking to be liberated from dominant culture, hetero-patriarchy, nervous systems, systems of injustices, etc. The simplicity of wearing a basic robe partly symbolizes the vow they have taken to live a simple life.As a descendent from Los Angeles (Listen to Lost Angeles by Mylo Mu) that is not an easy task with itās abundant investment in material culture and glamorized classism. The Violet monkās robe represents the crown chakra which bears the same hue. āThis chakra is often pictured as aĀ lotus flowerĀ opening to allow spiritual awakening in an individual. The crown chakra could also be considered the well intuitive knowing is drawn from. āThe hand gesture is called the Vitarka mudra which represented the gesture of debate/ discussion. Black Power and Flowers is a discursive space to discuss life and all itās truths. Ultimately, this album is about god. Itās about the reality that the source of Black Power is the same source that powers flowers and all organic systems in our known vast universe. Take a listen and vibe out!