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Advocates offer their readers a romantic and appealing narrative that emphasizes black women’s power and agency, but this prescription has the potential to delegitimize black women’s lived experience and to reinforce discourses that stigmatize the black community.

Danforth Professor of History and Professor of Comparative American Studies and Africana Studies at Oberlin College.

“There are far more black women than there are black men in this country, and that’s been for some time,” said Cheryl Judice, a sociologist and adjunct faculty member in Northwestern University’s School of Education and Public Policy.

That fact led one Northwestern University professor to write a book advocating for more black women to consider dating men outside their own race – specifically, white men – if they’re looking to get married.

Now, I’m not here to unpack the social importance of that song, but this is what you should know: It holds a strong cultural significance for black women. White men including my boyfriend at the time, who after seeing the excitement and pride induced by this performance said, “You know, Beyoncé should really just stick to singing and dancing and stay out of politics. It’s actually very irresponsible.” Well I’ll be damned.

It was an iconic performance, but I’m not an idiot. There he was, the ever-elusive black-woman-voice-silencer. I’d only seen this character in action on Fox News and in my Twitter comments. He wasn’t around for much longer after that fateful day. I’m not here to take away your First Amendment rights, so you can have a seat if that’s what you’re thinking.