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way of the world (8): Beyoncé blacker than ever!

more exotic and authentic than me you die!

It is difficult to play with the color of the skin, especially when the Americans seized the issue and speculate all day long. But what has happened, then it comes to a sense of provocation in the U.S., in a debate we would have gladly left for France where happened the "object of the crime"? Nevertheless, the fashion editors here are in turmoil since Beyoncé asked in the French magazine L'Officiel . Indeed, for his 90 th anniversary The Official boasts of "afford" Beyonce. We had every reason in the world - and also the ghetto - to rejoice in this honor, especially as pictured in "true negro" also makes, in the pages of this organ, a stirring tribute to the great Nigerian musician Fela which Jay-Z also spends a musical tribute.
But there is a catch that has plagued the Americans known for their way never to give in terms of color. For them it is not a dermal or epidermal question is a historical question. And it still left with good feelings to think otherwise when night falls. So it's fair that they do not appreciate that we have chosen to "blacken" the wife of Jay-Z . For many it is a garish exoticism, a flashback started since few years by some magazines including Vogue - in its French and Italian. Europe would have it a kind of sudden impulse of repentance - to paraphrase Pascal Bruckner?


Beyonce is indeed a black woman, but why black abundantly since there are several "black colors? We wanted well the link to Africa, to a certain idea we have of this continent. Oh, the more one is black (like the character from the novel by Daniel Biyaoula , deadlock, Ed African Presence 1997), one is African? Devil! The blackness would it then levels? Who George Foreman (darker) and Mohammed Ali (lighter) would be more African?

The American Dodai Stewart

And some voices like Dodai Stewart - editor of the famous online magazine Jezebel.com - of irony and wonder:

"C is fun to play with fashion and makeup, and indeed the history of fashion is marked by the provocation and the destruction of borders. But when her face painted and the intention to appear more African, do we not reduced to a color - very dark - a continent made up of different nations, rich in its cultures, its many tribes and history ? "

Y has a problem with my raffia, huh??

Meanwhile another observer of American fashion, Kristin Wong in Hollyscoop stresses controversy: "The problem is that if Beyonce had posed without makeup everyone would have countered that she is too white (to embody Africa). And, in an ironical tone, Wong wondered why Beyoncé was not simply asked French magazine to take pictures of his butt? Oh, we forgot that. And for good reason, truth often hides behind. Where is Africa? Wait until I turn around, you'll see her in all her splendor, and its forms!
Kristin Wong joked she really? I do not think we do not mess with this issue in America. Sacred Wong! Anyway this is called throwing oil on the fire. Now the poor Beyonce knows that this is how goes the world and us.