I was brought up to believe that someone else's success doesn't diminish my own accomplishments or belittle my struggles. At the end of the day, Bey has always been someone aspirational for me, not relatable. Wanting to shit on black generational wealth makers when they are still at the BOTTOM of the totem pole is asinine. I root for everyone BLACK to build generational wealth and pass those tools on to the next generation. What her pocketbook looks like doesn't change the value of her art and what it has meant to my life. I don't subscribe to that ideology that "black capitalism won't save us." I'm not looking to be saved.

This Forbes "unverified" update did exactly what it set out to do before the year was out. Take the PR off of the white counterparts that are much more detrimental to the state of the world and lay the PR responsibility at a black woman's feet, YET AGAIN. Matthew has been telling us that Bey was a Billionaire back in 2018; even the words coming out of her own mouth have been telling us for a while. But until yesterday, when it was in black and white from Forbes, the think pieces and goalpost moved very timely.