Houston singer Solange Knowles put her emotions on display following a negative encounter at a Kraftwerk concert in New Orleans over the weekend.
The 30-year-old musician’s essay on her ordeal at the show was preceded by a handful of tweets that described the incident.
“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 wrote in a tweet, which has since been deleted.
In her essay, “And Do You Belong? I Do,” she detailed the moment when her unwillingness to sit down during the show led to food being thrown at her.
“You are also confused as to what show you went to,” Solange wrote. “This is a band that were pioneers of electronic and dance music. Surely the audience is going to expect you to dance at some point. You were planning on sitting down after this song, as long as it wasn’t one of the four songs that you really connect with and plan on getting down to.”
“You feel something heavy hit you on the back of your shoulder, but consider that you are imagining things because well….certainly a stranger would not have the audacity,” she added. “Moments later, you feel something again, this time smaller, less heavy, and your son and his friend tell you those ladies just hit you with a lime.”
In addition to describing her encounter, Solange also touched on a variety of current events in her essay, from news of Air China warning its passengers of travel to Indian, Pakastani, and Black neighborhoods, to David Duke, a former KKK leader, running for Senate.
“The statement you made makes headlines funny enough just days after it comes to light that Air China warns their flyers not to go into Indian, Pakastani, or Black neighborhoods in order to stay safe, while Texas schools are fighting to have textbooks calling Mexicans ‘lazy’ removed from classrooms, and while Native Americans are doing everything they can possibly to to protect their sacred land from an oil pipeline being built on graves of their descendants,” the singer wrote. “You know that people of colors’ ‘spaces’ are attacked every single day, but many will not be able to see it that way.”
Read Solange’s “And Do You Belong? I Do” essay in its entirety at SaintHeron.com.
your son and his friend tell you those ladies just hit you with a lime.” Someone hit Solange with a lime? Man fuck this earth! How can someone hit the most talented singer the planet has been blessed to witness with produce, citrus at that. I mean if she wasnt related to a famous ass talentless drone then would we know this ever happend?
What a waste of a lime
This is so hip hop
A whole essay? I guess she has alot of free time between world tours
Solange? What a fuckin ugly ass name. It sounds like the name of some herpes medication you see on tv commercials
crack anyone?
If your in a SEATING AREA you sit down and shut the fuck up if you dont like that then buy GROUND FLOOR TICKETS and dance all night you stupid bitch and trying to act like its racism we belong we belong we belong…what a load of fucking bullshit typical african american throwing a temper tantrum cause someone says no or dont to them and it turns into a race war fucking pathetic and black lives matters and other african american stand up establishments cant even be taken seriously because of a bunch of immature ass adult like this transvestite donkey hooker looking thing…
wai,wha… “typical….” thats some bigoted/racist shit right there. You double talking dude.
And sacred land and oil pipeline shit really she had to say that shit? Yea some people are against it with every fiber of there being me included really a oil pipeline running parrrlel to a gas line? Sounds genius and same thing with it crossing the river look at yellowstone? Enough said… and those natives fighting for there land the younger ones are more fame and glory hungry than donald trump and the elders are only fighting this because they are being offered $15,000,000 and they want $25,000,000 for the rights to run the pipeline…just a bunch of greedy mother fuckers…wanna know how i know so much? I know half the guys performing security out there personaly and i know alot of guys who have spent WEEKS protesting and have heard BOTH sides and its disgusting…
Really? The security guards know the details of the business plan? Maybe you could mediate. Only $10,000,000.00 apart- seems doable.
Are you in north dakota? Then shut the fuck up
I’m guessing that there wasn’t a working elevator in the building so those 4 women felt brave as fuck.
Is this stupid c.unt realy comparing having a fuckin LIME thrown at her to serious racist shit thats going on in the world? This does not sound like a racial matter one bit, and i guarantee she isnt telling the full story. Judging by how this stupid spoilt bitch was spazing out in that elevator, I cant see her being the victim of anything here . What an embarassment. smfh.
Just seen she was in a seating area………..wtf is she even compaining about. smh.
Black people are entitled. ‘People dont like me acting like a baboon, thats racist!’.
No, white people are entitled assholes that think they have the right to tell everyone how to behave and discipline them. It’s a fucking concert. People dance. It’s DANCE music.
White people act like this out of jealousy cause they can’t dance, and don’t have the rhythm to be free and enjoy themselves and the moment. They hate seeing other people enjoy themselves and want to ruin it.
Everything about our society is because whitey is jealous and hated what other cultures achieved, so they made friends with those cultures and murdered them to gain what they have. Now today people of color can’t even dance at DANCE music CONCERT without whitey getting all uppity trying to kill the enjoyment cause they’re jealous.
kraftwerk really isn’t dance music.
and if you were going to make a list of the 50 whitest bands of all time, there’s no way kraftwerk wouldn’t be on there
Everybody trying to be victim of racism… Fuck off and enjoy your life. Grown ass woman acting like a child. Smh
So their skin color was different so it is automatically racist on par with KKK?
so she went to an area that didn’t worship black women and all the obstructive, annoying, ridiculous shit they do? you’re saying a black woman had dozens upon dozens of people annoyed at her and she somehow managed to blame everybody else? i’m shocked.
She tried to put Twerk into Kraftwerk. Besides, when life gives you limes, make LEMONADE. With honey. Like Queen Bey. Bee. Whatever.
I thought her essay was about how to kick dicks?
I went to a kraftwerk concert here in Detroit last year. People danced, but not in front of where anyone was sitting down watching the visual performance, they took it to the aisles. It seems to me like there’s an easy solution to this problem but it depends on the layout of the venue.