The song that pressured police forces to boycott shows, increased sales at the Red Lobster and provided an empowering voice for the marginalized Black women in North America, has been sweeping across the Americas since its release. This song, Formation, sung by the talented Beyoncé, is the silent, fierce protest song of the 21st Century. In the midst of a modern Black genocide, Beyoncé speaks up about the injustices Black people face today, such as the tormenting of their children, the blatant disregard for her culture and also paints a picture of what life would be like if Black lives were not targeted.
Four years ago, an unarmed seventeen year old Black kid was killed by a White 28 year old right wing Conservative. The child was Trayvon Martin. The man was deemed not guilty but charged with second degree murder, although Trayvon was attacked while getting an iced tea (CNN Library, 2016). The tragic death of …show more content…
Solidarity is the “virtue by which [people] demonstrate ‘a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good’”, which Beyoncé tries to explain clearly through her song (Catholic Charities, 2006). According to Beyoncé, to get into formation is to organize and coordinate the marginalized, before the harmful white male supremacist heteropatriarchy is abolished. According to Dr. Zandria Robinson at New South Negress, a Black Southern critical magazine, Formation is a “metaphor, a black feminist and black queer feminist theory of community organizing and resistance… recognition of one another at the blackness margins”, essentially providing a voice for those whose voices are silenced under the expendability put upon their lives (Robinson,
Four years ago, an unarmed seventeen year old Black kid was killed by a White 28 year old right wing Conservative. The child was Trayvon Martin. The man was deemed not guilty but charged with second degree murder, although Trayvon was attacked while getting an iced tea (CNN Library, 2016). The tragic death of …show more content…
Solidarity is the “virtue by which [people] demonstrate ‘a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good’”, which Beyoncé tries to explain clearly through her song (Catholic Charities, 2006). According to Beyoncé, to get into formation is to organize and coordinate the marginalized, before the harmful white male supremacist heteropatriarchy is abolished. According to Dr. Zandria Robinson at New South Negress, a Black Southern critical magazine, Formation is a “metaphor, a black feminist and black queer feminist theory of community organizing and resistance… recognition of one another at the blackness margins”, essentially providing a voice for those whose voices are silenced under the expendability put upon their lives (Robinson,