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13 Tweets About Iggy Azalea’s Comments That Beyoncé’s Reference To “Becky” Is A Racist “Stereotype” About White Women

by Wendy Stokes August 6, 2018
by Wendy Stokes August 6, 2018

Amethyst Amelia Kelly … Igloo Australia … call Iggy Azalea whatever you want, just don’t call her “Becky.” Today in Dumb Opinions About Beyoncé’s LEMONADE that no one asked for, Australian “rapper” Iggy Azalea expressed grave offense at being called “Becky,” referencing that already infamous line from Bey’s stunning visual album: “He better call Becky with the good hair.” Iggy, you see, believes “Becky” is a negative racial stereotype about, gasp, white women. OH NOES.

@phagmob generalizing ANY race by calling them one sterotypical name for said race. i personally dont think is very cool, the end.

— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) April 25, 2016

@phagmob girl BYE. do you know how many time ppl have called me BECKY? it didnt have any kind of positive intention behind it. dont start.

— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) April 25, 2016

@rNicaRo the whole becky thing “give me that becky” comes from white womens supposed love for blow jobs. so excuse me but, i dont want

— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) April 26, 2016

Alright, if I must, allow me to quickly parse the lyric itself, since Iggy decided to make it all about her. In the context of the song “Sorry,” “Becky with the good hair” refers to the other woman that Beyoncés man (presumably Jay Z, if LEMONADE is indeed explicitly biographical and about her marriage) is cheating with. Yes, “Becky” has been used as a generic slang term for white women, including by artists other than Beyoncé, and sometimes, more specifically, white women who give a lot of blowjobs. But what “good hair” means to the Black community, in particular Black women, as Rebecca Thomas at MTV points out, is far more complex than what Iggy’s two braincells put together. She writes:

The idea of good hair actually has its roots in slavery, when white owners would deliberately separate and assign slaves with light skin and straighter “good hair” to household work, leaving the punishing field work to those with darker skin and kinky African hair. …

These damaging messages were passed on for centuries, and black women and girls in particular had to do the work of deprogramming. …

So when Beyonce tells her cheating man he “better call Becky with the good hair,” she’s nodding to our historical baggage and signifying far more than just a girl with a bouncy blowout.

 

So, for starters, Iggy Azalea’s assumption that Beyoncé’s use of “Becky” negatively refers to white women who suck dick is a pretty goddamn simplistic and self-centering interpretation, surprise surprise. But regardless of what in the hell Beyoncé meant, racial stereotypes about white people do not have the same impact or consequences as stereotypes about people of color, because white people are not oppressed by a racist system. To conflate “Becky with the good hair” with actual racism is DUMB AS FUCK and yet:

@iggys_bitch its ironic, because both are generalized names. its clearly not okay for me to call any other race a generalized name (i agree)

— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) April 25, 2016

@SamMaffiaOnline I dont care. Dont call all asian women “ming lee” dont call white women “becky” dont call black women “sha nay nay”

— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) April 25, 2016

And of ALLLLL people to call out Beyoncé for racist stereotyping, Iggy Azalea? Quite a hypocritical hill to die on, Amethyst. Iggy has not only tweeted straight up actual racist shit herself (Mic has a good roundup of Iggy’s tomfoolery), but she’s made an entire lucrative career out of her totally painful Southern Black woman impression and appropriating Black culture overall. So, like, it’s really hard to muster a single fuck that Iggy is sad about being called “Becky.” Go home, girl, I hear Australia’s nice this time of year.

Meanwhile, Twitter naturally took Iggy to task. Here are some of my favorite responses:

How nice of Iggy Azalea to talk racial stereotypes when she feels affected. As she profits off a poor imitation of a southern Black woman.

— Michael Arceneaux (@youngsinick) April 26, 2016

[looks @IGGYAZALEA right damn in the eyes]

Becky.

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) April 26, 2016

[email protected] Tweet your face when you heard Iggy Azalea thinks “Becky” is racist. https://t.co/MJesXwQZgL pic.twitter.com/iKlNhec9iN

— Alvin aqua Blanco (@Aqua174) April 26, 2016

Dear Iggy Azalea

Beyonce said “Becky with the good hair”.
Not “Becky with the weak bars or fake accent”.

Your whiteness is fragile AF

— George M Johnson (@IamGMJohnson) April 26, 2016

gonna tattoo iggy azalea tweeting “dont call me a becky” as a tramp stamp

— jaimee |-/ (@okjaimee) April 26, 2016

#IggyAzalea thinks calling white women #Becky is racist, continues to culturally appropriate https://t.co/OWPPuTS9Np pic.twitter.com/7oKDXzgVF7

— The Feminism Project (@TheFeminismProj) April 26, 2016

 

Iggy on being called Becky: pic.twitter.com/2zvsJ07822

— • (@bellamcasti) April 26, 2016

 

Iggy’s can’t see an issue her MANY racist statements towards multiple POC groups, but can reach to find racism in “becky”….aight

— Captain Kirk (@ILLCapitano94) April 26, 2016

“iggy azalea doesn’t think beyonce should call white girls becky”
A. who asked you
B. what if their name is becky

— katie (@schwabentore) April 26, 2016

Apparently we gotta cc: Igloo Australia into the flowchart of who’s opinions on lemonade anyone gives a shit about https://t.co/hA3STTOKxy

— Betty (@DayGloBetty) April 26, 2016

She said Becky with the good hair not Igloo with the rank weave https://t.co/tbJxjMgliX

— DARTH GAYDER (@MuglerHomme) April 26, 2016

Becky is the one with the good hair, Igloo. https://t.co/4oZzLD3SWr

— BeckyWithTheMehHair (@queerly_bel0ved) April 26, 2016

In conclusion:

[Mic]

Original by:  Amelia McDonell-Parry @xoamelia | 4.26.16 | 4:56 pm

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