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Iggy Azalea Feels Personally Victimized By Beyonce's "Becky" Reference

Australian rapper Iggy Azalea speaks out about the daily struggle of white women with nice hair.

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Iggy Azalea Feels Personally Victimized By Beyonce's "Becky" Reference
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As the credits for Beyonce’s “Lemonade” began to scroll, every black woman across America sat back in their seats and asked themselves, “I wonder what Iggy Azalea thinks about this?”

Lucky for us, we have been blessed once again with gems from Azalea’s font of knowledge. Beyonce’s lyric in her song “Sorry” referring to ‘Becky with the good hair’ shocked and offended Azalea, so she bravely spoke up about how she and every white woman in the world was thus racially victimized.

The lyric allegedly refers to a white woman with whom Beyonce’s husband Jay-Z may or may not have had an affair with. Following its release, questions and accusations began to fly around any and all white women Jay-Z has ever taken an Instagram photo with. Jumping on the “Who is Becky?” bandwagon, Iggy assures everyone that she is not the “Becky” Beyonce was referring to (no one asked her, by the way, so thank God she took matters into her own hands). Perhaps Azalea feels this sting of racism precisely because no one was giving her any attention regarding this issue.

Iggy, who has tweeted in the past about the hilarity of black men getting arrested outside of a Popeye's, ascertains that she has extensive experience in regards to systematic racism. Despite having used the term to refer to white women herself in the song “I Think She Ready,” Azalea feels that “generalizing ANY race by calling them one stereotypical name” isn’t “very cool.”

The seriousness of the situation came crashing down upon Iggy’s shoulder because the word Becky “has no positive intention behind it,” whatever that means. “My name is Iggy, and you will all call me that,” she tweeted in protest of literally no one calling her ‘Becky’: this demand apparently excludes the term ‘slave master,’ which she used to refer to herself in the song D.R.U.G.S. (adding a very appropriate whipping gesture in the music video).

Azalea has truly opened our eyes to our racist ways. As a rapper dating a black man, she’s clearly down with the sistahs, so to speak, and it is our duty to stand up against Beyonce’s racist jab at the truly oppressed in our country: White women with straight hair.

Azalea herself already has to suffer winning numerous awards for her rap (a style of music originating in black culture) without paying any mind to the black struggle; asking her to close her trout pout for five seconds and let Beyonce take the mic on this one would only perpetuate the tyranny she faces.

Although Iggy states she has seen and loves “Lemonade”, she seems to draw a blank regarding the remaining hour of the film that artistically highlights the black struggle and redirects our attention to the really important stuff: reverse racism. No one can say that reverse racism doesn’t exist, now that Iggy has to carry this "Becky" burden on her shoulders.

Good for you, Iggy, for bringing national attention to the loaded racism behind this commonly-used household name. In the words of Suzy Kassem: “Stand up for what is right: even if you’re standing alone”.

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