Alright, in light of what’s happened after Bey’s performance, I have to comment on this. First of all, this isn’t about “music”. This is about the history of oppression and violence that inspired the music. This is about a black artist empowering her black community. Apparently some white people are all up in arms about “Formation” because it has nothing to do with them. You know, because they have so little for themselves anyways. The point of her post, in my opinion, is to say that not everything is meant for white people, and, given this country’s checkered history with race, this should be understood. White people don’t need to be empowered. Black people do. And I can see why you, a South asian, wouldn’t get this. Many of my south Asian friends don’t, either. After-all, our parents came here willingly, many of them with advanced degrees, and have given us every opportunity to succeed. And we have — my father is a doctor and paid my way through college. I have never felt “oppressed” in any real way. Aside from the occasional post-9/11 ignorance, I have grown up feeling more privileged than any white person I know. Maybe your experience was different. It’s very idyllic to say “we need to stop treating people by their skin color”. But how can you when race was America’s original sin? Race is what created this country. Race is what fueled over 200 years of slavery and about another 1oo years of segregation. Now we have covert racism. Have you ever been stopped by a police officer for being black? You hit the nail on the head when you said you are neither white nor black, so you don’t normally comment. You’re right. And you shouldn’t.