Tina Knowles Recalls an Older White Woman Questioning Why She Let Beyoncé Marry JAY-Z
11.02.2022 - 00:19
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Tina Knowles-Lawson is opening up about a past experience. On Thursday's episode of , a clip from Tina's new project, , aired in which Beyoncé's mother described an encounter with an older white woman.«I can remember getting on a plane, and an older white woman saying, 'Oh, your son is a gangster rapper, right? How did you let him marry your daughter?'» Tina said in a clip, alluding to her son-in-law, JAY-Z, who married Beyoncé back in 2008.
The couple has three children, 10-year-old Blue Ivy, and 4-year-old twins Rumi and Sir.«It was just shocking to me and I said, 'No, actually, my son is a CEO,'» Tina recalled. «She didn't think of him as a CEO, or even a talented celebrity that was a great businessman.
At that time, I remember thinking, 'I can't be mad at her, because that is what the media portrays.'»After the clip aired, Tina appeared on the morning show via video call and reflected more on the experience she described in the clip.«I sat there and I thought about how the media portrays Black men and how that is typical of the things that they would focus on, the negatives,» Tina said. "[They] try to portray us as these dangerous, our men as dangerous, uneducated.
Gangster rapper, that's all she could come up with, but that's what she had been seeing on TV and all in the media. That's how we're portrayed, unfortunately.«Tina Knowles-Lawson, executive producer of the new docuseries, “Profiled: The Black Man,” talks about the damaging stereotype that Black men are “dangerous” — and her hope to reshape society’s views.
pic.twitter.com/s0c6P7VhzATina is the executive producer of Discovery+ and OWN Network's , a four-part docuseries. Hosted by Tristan „Mack“ Wilds, the show will examine the origins of the widespread
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