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Eric Benet Faces Backlash Over "Redbone Girl''
23 July 2012
Eric Benet is feeling the heat from fans and some new enemies after dropping his song, “Redbone Girl,” playing on the classically Southern phrase describing fair-skinned women.
Critics claim that he’s promoting the mainstream, racist standards of beauty.
Despite him attempting to justify his position, online critics are relentless, saying the light skin beauty concept is linked to privilege and superior beauty.
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Fuck Eric Benet and errbody that love em. | |
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Proof that some people have too much free time and are far too easily offended. | |
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The tasty bit of irony is those same critics will listen to the ''flavor of the month'' rapper repeatedly characterize Black women as "hos" and "bitches''.
The hypocrisy is staggering. | |
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how would everyone prefer us to sing about women-as-meat? My Legacy
http://prince.org/msg/8/192731 | |
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I was gonna say this. | |
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Dark sskin people have always been jealous of light skin people. What's new? | |
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Really man? | |
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This is very true. Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint | |
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Anyways, my opinion is meh. I don't care. | |
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As you keep reminding us... | |
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Weren't there songs in the past by R&B artists that mentioned the type of women they like? Some say dark, some say "high yellow", others said redbone...
So why is Eric being picked out?
This world is getting too PC. | |
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Me? Actually that's the first time I said what I thought. | |
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I find it strange that the focus is on skin color and totally ignores the fact that it's about viewing women entirely as sex objects.
Now, I agree with you about people being PC, and I don't care personally who Erec Benet likes or if he objectifies women (hell, it's just a damn love song, not a political speech). But it seems like the attitude toward women is so pervasive that nobody even sees it!
If you're going to be PC, then be PC My Legacy
http://prince.org/msg/8/192731 | |
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Gee Whiz! How's he pretending that it doesn't exist?
Furthermore, where's that blogger when Kanye West professed those same feelings over and over again in his music. Why the selectivity?
Not a fan of Benet, but I'm glad he didn't quibble and coughed a 1/2 assed apology,,,,,and I really hope he doesn't it. | |
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Guess no one cares about that. They don't focus on the sexual objectiveness because people are already trying to make it a political debate lol | |
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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Damn, dude facing backlash over this? Some people need some Johnson&Johnson babywipes because there's too much butthurtedness in society lately.
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The blogger also needs to check all the women who chase behind light skinned dudes for the same reasons they claim dudes want light skinned women. Everytime a man professes a preference regarding skin color he gets slammed but you don't hear about women getting that flack. When go 2 a Prince concert or related event it's all up in the house but when log onto this site and the miasma of bitchiness is completely overwhelming! | |
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The stench of hypocrisy, ain't it? | |
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Both Eric Benet and this topic put me to sleep.. Change it one more time.. | |
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Yep! When go 2 a Prince concert or related event it's all up in the house but when log onto this site and the miasma of bitchiness is completely overwhelming! | |
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exactly. | |
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That's bullshit. He did a song called "Chocolate Legs", too.
He's an equal-opportunity perv. | |
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Sad dark skin and light skin is dividing our community. We got enough issues. Just silly. Divide and conquer. Divide and conquer.
On top of that, why a woman got to be objectified by her color like it is some kind of fetish? I don't care if she's dark or light. If you look at her skin color and want to call her "sexual chocolate" or "sexy red" both are being objectified. Thank You San Alejo for getting rid of my enemies. :-0
Thank You SO much Saint Expedite for your help Thank You Virgin de Guadalupe for helping my friend Thank You Saint Anthony for returning my wallet to me untouched | |
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I will never ever be jealous of a woman with lighter skin than mine. And I would have never known there was "backlash" til I read it on here. I think dude trying to create a stir o sell records. | |
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It's amusing how many decades (centuries?) pass by and people still manage to get their panties in a knot over the lyrics to popular music. | |
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Haterz!! | |
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Can't believe we're even having this discussion in 2012... This sounds like some 1980's shit, which I think was the last decade where being light skinned and having wavy/straight hair was generally accepted as the standard of black beauty... Do people STILL concern themselves with such things??? Darker skin people have been getting plenty of love from where I see it...for a long time.
The only people who would get worked up about this are people who are self concious about their own skin tone. They have their own personal self image issues to work out. | |
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