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I am crying.

Lemonade is for Black mothers who bury their sons. Lemonade is for the Black girls who remained silent for so long that it broke them. Lemonade is for the laughter when the victim is a Black woman. Lemonade is the Black love that shatters but somehow survives. Lemonade is Black women accepting that we are not responsible for what he did. We are not less beautiful because life scars us more. Lemonade is for the Black girls who aren’t silent and still end up broken. Lemonade is the acceptance of Black girls and women being more beautiful, vulnerable and deserving than we are broken. Lemonade is Black women letting the World know that we are not invincible pussy popping non aging 8th wonders of the World. We are human. We are here. Our pain is valid and so are our voices.

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I also want to add my new perception: Lemonade is a story about Black women protecting our mothers even if it means admitting the mistakes of our fathers. I feel like that album was for Tina (Beyoncé’s mother). Her father publicly cheated and got exposed. I’m not about to go into every detail. I really don’t think it was 100% about her and Jay-Z. I think it was watching what her father did, what he threw away, the amazing woman he had. It could also be a warning to Jay to not follow her father’s footsteps because as women we often subconsciously pick men like our fathers.

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