In latest weeks the phrase reclamation has been used so much, primarily with regard to Beyoncé and her new nation album. On the album’s cowl the singer sits aspect saddle on a white horse whereas holding the American flag. The picture is hanging, inflicting straightforward provocation. A Black girl in possession of one of many nation’s most hallowed symbols, wearing rodeo garb, using off on a horse as her platinum blonde hair blows within the wind. One wonders the place she’ll have us observe her on that white horse she’s on. In one other picture, she reinterprets herself because the Statue of Liberty as a substitute of being adorned in gaudy inexperienced paint, she permits her lengthy braids and sash to cowl her in any other case bare physique whereas she stands tall, buying and selling the torch for a lit cigar.
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