Beyonce Knowles Is Obama’s Wonder Woman
BARACK Obama Watch: THE post-racial world just keeps on changing. Here’s Beyonce Knowles waking up to a new dawn in the World According to Obama (WACO):
In “Beyonce: Now it’s time for black Wonder Woman”, the singer says:
“A black Wonder Woman would be a powerful thing.”
Says the Mail on Sunday:
“And she has likened landing the role to the election of Barack Obama, whose campaign she backed.”
Or not.
What Beyonce actually said was:
“I want to do a superhero movie and what would be better than Wonder Woman? It would be great. And it would be a very bold choice. A black Wonder Woman would be a powerful thing. It’s time for that, right?”
And:
“After doing these roles that were so emotional I was thinking to myself, ‘OK, I need to be a superhero’. Although, when you think about the psychology of the heroes in the films these days, they are still a lot of work, of course, and emotional. But there’s also an action element that I would enjoy.”
She makes no mention of Obama. And the worry is that the singer has, unlike the Mail, fails to understand what not being black or white in a post-racial world really means…
Posted: 9th, November 2008 | In: Celebrities Comments (2) | TrackBack | Permalink
