{"id":3653,"date":"2022-02-11T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2022-03-18T19:58:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T23:58:13","slug":"older-white-woman-shocked-tina-knowles-grilling-her-on-beyonce-marrying-gangster-rapper-jay-z-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/2022\/02\/11\/older-white-woman-shocked-tina-knowles-grilling-her-on-beyonce-marrying-gangster-rapper-jay-z-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Older White Woman Shocked Tina Knowles, Grilling Her On Beyonc\u00e9 Marrying \u2018gangster rapper\u2019 Jay-Z"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tina Knowles-Lawson, Beyonce and Solange\u2019s mom is making the rounds promoting her new docuseries she is an executive producer on, the show is essentially about how black men are generally perceived by whites in general, and though it is not a new topic it still can be jolting when encountered \u2014 as she explained during an interview with Gayle King on Thursday\u2019s CBS Mornings<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lawson was promoting the new docuseries  Profiled: The Black Man<\/em>. The series will tackle the various stereotypes Black men have had to face as hurdles to the recognition of their full humanity. She offered a the TV host a glaring example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I can remember getting on a plane, and an older white woman saying, \u2018Oh, your son is a gangster rapper, right? How did you let him marry your daughter?\u2019 \u201d Lawson recalled in a clip from Profiled<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was just shocking to me and I said, \u2018No, actually, my son is a CEO,\u2019 \u201d Lawson continued. \u201cShe didn\u2019t think of him as a CEO, or even a talented celebrity that was a great businessman. At that time, I remember thinking, \u2018I can\u2019t be mad at her, because that is what the media portrays.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That woman was, of course, referring to Jay-Z, aka Shawn Carter, who \u201cofficially\u201d became a billionaire in 2019, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame two years later. Beyonc\u00e9 married the businessman turned \u201cbusiness, man\u201d in 2008 and together have had three kids, 10-year-old Blue Ivy, and 4-year-old twins Rumi and Sir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI sat there and I thought about how the media portrays Black men and how that is typical of the things that they would focus on, the negatives,\u201d Lawson told King regarding that incident. \u201c[They] try to portray us as these dangerous, our men as dangerous, uneducated. Gangster rapper, that\u2019s all she could come up with, but that\u2019s what she had been seeing on TV and all in the media. That\u2019s how we\u2019re portrayed, unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lawson was promoting the new docuseries Profiled: The Black Man. The series will tackle the various stereotypes Black men have had to face as hurdles to the recognition of their full humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[675,347,748,723,746,392],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3654,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions\/3654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}