Beyonce’s Dad Raises Eyebrows With Controversial Remarks About The Color Of Her Skin

I cannot STAND Beyonce.

I didn’t even like her when I was a flaming liberal.

I think her music is REALLY overhyped. Seriously… she’s a good singer, but I don’t think her songs are any better than all the rest of the pop garbage out there.

And don’t even get me STARTED on how obnoxious I find her God-complex.

Is it worse that she sees herself as some kind of Goddess among mortals… or that her fans do?

Either way… it’s totally whack.

Anyway, her father recently made some comments about her “light” skin that have some people raising their eyebrows.
According to this:

He masterminded his talented daughter’s rise to fame in Destiny’s Child, before helping her get started on a solo career.

Now Beyonce’s father Mathew Knowles has spoken out about colorism in the music industry, saying that his superstar daughter and her sister Solange wouldn’t be as famous if they had darker skin.

Talking to Ebony, he said the biggest black female stars all had lighter skin.

‘When it comes to Black females, who are the people who get their music played on pop radio? Mariah Carey, Rihanna, the female rapper Nicki Minaj, my kids [Beyonce and Solange],’ he told Ebony magazine.

Since parting ways with Beyonce professionally in 2011, African-American Knowles has reinvented himself as a college professor, and is promoting a new book about race relations, titled Racism: From the Eyes of a Child.

Oh. So he’s a college professor now. Got it. Surely it’s entirely out of merit and has nothing to do with the fact that he’s Beyonce’s father.

I’m sorry… but dragging kids into race stuff is just low. Anyway….

In his interview the 66-year-old also addressed his own deep-rooted attitudes to skin color, saying that when he first met Beyonce’s mother, his ex-wife of 31 years, he assumed she was white.

‘I actually thought when I met Tina, my former wife, that she was White. Later I found out that she wasn’t, and she was actually very much in-tune with her Blackness.’

Because I KNOW you’re wondering… here’s what Beyonce’s mother looks like:

NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 21: Tina Knowles-Lawson attends Variety’s Power of Women: New York at Cipriani Midtown on April 21, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Presley Ann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Anyway…

Beyonce’s dad has always preferred white or light-skinned black women…. because of “eroticized rage.”

He said that his preference for white or light-skinned black women was embedded in his childhood in Gadsden, a small town near the city of Birmingham, Alabama.

Said Knowles: ‘When I was growing up, my mother used to say, “Don’t ever bring no nappy-head Black girl to my house.” In the deep South in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, the shade of your Blackness was considered important. So I, unfortunately, grew up hearing that message.’

And this had a lasting effect. ‘I used to date mainly White women or very high-complexion Black women that looked White… I had been conditioned from childhood.

‘With eroticized rage, there was actual rage in me as a Black man, and I saw the White female as a way, subconsciously, of getting even or getting back. There are a lot of Black men of my era that are not aware of this thing.’

Eroticized rage?

I have no idea what that means… but it sounds like a personal problem, dude.

Mathew made his entire career out of his “light-skinned” daughter, so I guess he would know…

Beyonce’s rise to stardom began in 1988 when she won the Baby Junior Award at the Sammy Awards, a ceremony held to honour Sammy Davis Jr.

She signed up to join a girlband, Girls Tyme, when she was eight, with Knowles quitting his full-time sales job to co-manage the band two years later.

The band became Destiny’s Child, which three years later signed a seven-album deal with Columbia/Sony.

Knowles co-managed Destiny’s Child throughout, and was also credited as executive producer on Beyonce’s first solo album Dangerously In Love, before she ended her working relationship with her father in 2011.

As I expected, Beyonce’s fans are aaaaaaangry:

I really wish Mathew Knowles would stop talking. Better yet, stop reporting on his ignorant ass

— Ashley Pratt (@iampratt15) February 5, 2018

@MathewKnowles is apparently deeply troubled
and INCREDIBLY insecure about his blackness!
What an absolute insult to his amazing daughter
and @KELLYROWLAND and others.Just pathetic!! https://t.co/Kmv6bNCJSi

— Cuban Goddess (@AngelaG72252010) February 5, 2018

She’d be a knockout even if she had skin the colour of the Incredible Hulk.

— Mike Schroeder (@MikeSchroeder88) February 5, 2018

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— Thriller Podcast (@ThrillerPodcast) February 5, 2018

Wow pops, really?

— Brutal Black Fist!!! (@Thisbutts4u2) February 5, 2018

@BeyonceKnowls does not need her dad to make those comments, Bey is so AWSOME if she would had more darkness to her skin SHE WOULD STILL BE ALL THAT !! Because of what she has in her heart is a true songstress !! #BlackGirlsRock

— Geraldine (@1GeraldineBower) February 5, 2018

Jesus!!!! Well who needs enemies with a daddy like that!

— My-Ishia Cason-Brown (@Myishiacb) February 5, 2018

If this is not a definition of ‘it be ya own niggas’, Idk what is

— Michel D’angelo (@souloGroove) February 5, 2018

And of course… this is about White Supremacy. Duh.

Because RACE and White Supremacy permeates EVERY part of America! That’s Why!

— YOU CAN’T REPLY TO A DELETED TWEET (@Snapple2Apple) February 5, 2018

Beyonce considers herself something of a Black Panther now (seriously… she wore this “Black Panther inspired” little get-up at the Grammys) so I wonder what she’ll have to say about this…

Beyoncé wearing a custom Nicolas Jebran dress inspired by the 1960s Black Panther movement, at the 60th annual #GRAMMYs – I pic.twitter.com/WVC8OAqFCW

— IMONATION (@THEIMONATION) January 29, 2018