PHOTO:Solange Knowles just sums up why black people don’t feel safe in “white places”

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In her explanation, she detailed just why Black people don't feel safe in white spaces and why Black women are justifiably perceived as "angry" as times. Take a look at what she had to say, below:


solange knowles  ✔@solangeknowles
We are at an ELECTRONIC and DANCE music concert and you are telling...not asking me...to sit down. In front of my child.
solange knowles  ✔@solangeknowles
We walk in, and one of my favorite songs, Machine, is on. I'm excited to tell my son about how hip hop sampled Kraftwerk. We are dancing.
solange knowles  ✔@solangeknowles
We are 4 of about 20 black concert goers out 1500 here.
4 out of maaaybbe 20 out of 1500.
solange knowles  ✔@solangeknowles
I took my son, his friend, and my husband to see Kraftwerk in New Orleans...
Was very excited to dance and enjoy a band I love.
solange knowles  ✔@solangeknowles
4 older white women yell to me from behind, "Sit down now" . I tell them I'm dancing at a concert. They yell, "u need to sit down now"...
solange knowles  ✔@solangeknowles
But in this moment, I'm just going to share my experience...
So that maybe someone will understand, why many of us don't feel safe...
solange knowles  ✔@solangeknowles
...in many white spaces...

We don't "bring the drama"....

Fix yourself.
solange knowles  ✔@solangeknowles
Nobody goes to the Kraftwerk show with their kid "looking for "drama"
But that's how u guys like to spin this.
solange knowles  ✔@solangeknowles
Now back to me & my husbands favorite song
"Autobahn" ....& not giving a fuck about you lovely ladies so mad this lil black girl having fun😘

solange knowles  ✔@solangeknowles
Peeps try to give POC, a "u can only speak out racism 3 strikes...or U r the problem" card.
Some can kind of trust u the first 3 times...

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