I am so sick of white men commenting on Beyoncé.

I’m tired of reading thinkpiece after thinkpiece about how she isn’t empowering or important and I’m tired of watching the angry black woman stereotype being perpetuated.

I battled myself over writing another thinkpiece from the perspective of a white woman on Beyoncé. I am well aware that "Lemonade" was not made for me. It is a loud declaration of black pride. I would never in a million years act like I understand the racism, turmoil and disrespect that comes from being a black woman in America. I can’t relate to that. What I can relate to, though, are the messages of resilience and strength. Almost as much as "Lemonade" is a love letter to blackness, it’s also a poignant and reflective account of a woman’s journey and navigation through pain, heartbreak, forgiveness, redemption and self-love. These are elements and concepts we can all identify with, black or white. I would’ve been content with replaying “Don’t Hurt Yourself,” “Sorry,” and “All Night” over and over again and annoying my roommate with my constant yelling during my favorite parts, but after reading articles titled “Jay Z’s not the only one who needs to be nervous about Beyoncé, the born-again-black woman with a political mission” and “Beyoncé is Destroying Your Daughter, Not Empowering Her,” I couldn’t sit idly by.

Piers Morgan, world-class jackass, has penned another piece absolutely nobody asked for. Morgan “feels uncomfortable about Beyoncé using grieving mothers to sell albums.” He “never likes it when entertainers go all political.” He mentions how her “Formation” video was “understandably” seen as an attack on U.S. police. Morgan always seems to be uncomfortable anytime a woman speaks her mind, embraces her sexuality or breathes. He had the great opportunity of interviewing Beyoncé back in 2011 and recalls how she said that she feels she’s broken barriers in her career and that’s it’s not about color and race. Morgan expresses his distaste for this “new Beyoncé.” A lot can happen in five years. People change their opinions on things weekly. Police brutality has always been a huge issue in America, but it’s been really brought to the forefront of our conscience and TV screens after the tragic death of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of his killer, George Zimmerman. Since then, there have been hundreds upon hundreds of more deaths caused at the hands of law enforcement and the creation of a deeply important and legitimate movement, Black Lives Matter. For Beyoncé to not speak out, and not continue to be “seen as a black woman political activist first and foremost, entertainer and musician second”, as Piers so wishes she would not be, would be nothing short of irresponsible of the power and platform Beyoncé has been given. She has a responsibility to speak out against the injustices her people are facing, because when Beyoncé talks, people listen.

In another article that is equally as infuriating, for The Blaze, a website that may as well be Fox News 2.0, “professional truth sayer” Matt Walsh attempts to explain why Beyoncé is “destroying our children” and is not empowering at all. According to Walsh, Beyoncé is clichéd, calculated, superficial, vulgar and even goes so far as to call her the “Pagan Goddess of Secular America.” Walsh seems to be deeply offended that a woman has seized control of her sexuality and has crafted it for herself and not for the male gaze. He, like Morgan, misinterprets and diminishes her powerful homage to the Black Panthers down to a militant encouragement to hate cops. When Walsh relegated Beyoncé’s music down to “weird, aggressive, whorish, egomaniacal, vaguely satanic and deeply stupid,” I couldn’t help but roll my eyes and groan loudly. He completely misses the point of everything she says and does. By calling her aggressive, he perpetuates the idea of the “angry black woman” that just will not die. He doesn’t understand being comfortable and open with your sexuality does not make you a whore, and being confident does not make you an egomaniac. Nothing like a white man trying to explain what’s empowering about music geared to black women. Perhaps the real tragedy in the piece is not just the blatant misunderstanding and disregard for truth, but the fact that it has 64,000+ shares and many comments agreeing with these sentiments.

I’ve never liked when entertainers refuse to get political. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recently said in an interview that Michael Jordan chose commerce over conscience, in regards to a quote he may or may not have said in the 90’s about Republicans buying sneakers, too. It’s completely irresponsible and harmful when people in positions of power don’t speak out against civil and human rights injustices. Piers Morgan doesn’t understand why Beyoncé has gone political and he misses the “less inflammatory, agitating” Beyoncé. Matt Walsh doesn’t understand either how empowering Beyoncé really is. Beyoncé is not choosing commerce over her conscience and this “new” Beyoncé is just as empowering, strong, brave, refreshing, and very much needed. Singing her lyrics out makes me and millions of other men and women feel sexy, strong, and empowered. And nobody who doesn't understand that can diminish or take that away from us.