The Daily Mail‘s Yasmin Alibhai-Brown thinks so. Albhai-Brown believes that Beyoncé’s current look of long blonde hair and light skin is ruining what black and Asian women think about themselves. In fact, “Too many black and Asian children grow up understanding the sad truth that to have dark skin is to be somehow inferior,” the author says. Her sentiment isn’t a new one, but what does this have to do with Beyoncé?
One might argue that she’s a grown woman, and can do whatever she wants: “On one level, you might say this altering of appearance is just women enjoying themselves — selecting different colours, shapes and styles to become what they want. But there is more too it than that; precisely because they never make themselves look darker.” Alibhai-Brown believes that Beyoncé is “betraying her heritage”, and compares her to Jazz greats like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, who she claimed never did so themselves. To the author, Beyoncé is more in line with Tina Turner (in fact, they show great respect for each other, and have performed together as well), who purposefully …
