What Rihanna thinks about racism
Barbadian singer and businesswoman (Robyn Rihanna Fenty) who founded the Clara Lionel Foundation in 2012, Fenty Beauty in 2017 and Savage X Fenty in 2018.
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4 dated positions, 2019 to 2020, in their own words. Our reading of what Rihanna has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordswe can only fix this world together. We can’t do it divided. I cannot emphasize that enough. We can’t let the de-sensitivity seep in. The, “If it’s your problem, then it’s not mine; It’s a woman’s problem; It’s a black people problem; It’s a poor people problem.”
↗Rihanna’s NAACP Image Awards President’s Award acceptance speech, 22 February 2020, as printed in full by Variety (“Rihanna Pleads for Equality at NAACP Image Awards: ‘Tell Your Friends to Pull Up’”, 22 February 2020)variety.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Our readingPeople with friends of other races should show up when injustice hits those friends’ communities
Their wordsI mean, how many of us in this room have colleagues and partners and friends from other races, sexes, religions? Show of hands. Well, they want to break bread with you, right? They like you? Well, then this is their problem, too. So when we’re marching and protesting and posting about the Michael Brown juniors and Atatiana Jeffersons of the World, tell your friends to pull up.
↗Rihanna’s NAACP Image Awards President’s Award acceptance speech, 22 February 2020, as printed in full by Variety (“Rihanna Pleads for Equality at NAACP Image Awards: ‘Tell Your Friends to Pull Up’”, 22 February 2020)variety.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsPeople are being murdered by war weapons that they legally purchase. This is just not normal. That should never, ever be normal. And the fact that it’s classified as something different because of the color of their skin? It’s a slap in the face. It’s completely racist.
↗“Rihanna Talks Fenty, That Long-Awaited Album, and President Trump”, interview by Abby Aguirre, Vogue (November 2019 cover story, published online 9 October 2019)vogue.com 3rd of 6 in this piece
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Our readingPresident Trump would not have called the same attack by an Arab man a mental-health problem
Their wordsPut an Arab man with that same weapon in that same Walmart and there is no way that Trump would sit there and address it publicly as a mental health problem.
↗“Rihanna Talks Fenty, That Long-Awaited Album, and President Trump”, interview by Abby Aguirre, Vogue (November 2019 cover story, published online 9 October 2019)vogue.com 4th of 6 in this piece