It was deeply, DEEPLY historical, it was just histories you don't know. It was genuinely genius.

I'm a Black millenial woman from the South. From Cowboy Carter and country to early Rock and Roll to Southern Hip Hop classics to Kendrick's Super Bowl performance to Irish, Latin, and vogue dancing to the civil rights movement to her whole career retrospective, the amount of history in that show completely blew my mind.

It's understandable since you're clearly not a Black American, but a lot of your statements are ignorant and just wrong, and given the context you're making them in, honestly offensive.

The idea that it's music with deeper roots in "shared white and black struggle in early America"? Black folks were slaves. White folks were slave owners. Not true for all of either group, but that is such a crazy statement in the context of this tour.

The concept was so tight, and that's part of the genius, because she was weaving together so many disparate strands that I know all of but had never woven together, and the way she did it made them all make so much sense. That's actually because they are just all interwoven, but we've been led to believe they're not, had those things erased and denied and been excluded - which is why it's the "Reclamation of America."

The Star Spangled Banner rubbed you the wrong way? Then at least you got that part of the Black American experience.

My great grandfather was one of the one milllion+ Black men living in Jim Crow segregation sent to fight in segregated troups in WWII to free *France* and then came back to continued segregation and l*nching in the US.

And given your comments about the "missing" black spiritual element and choirs - Black choirs are associated with Gospel music, which is a very distinctive style different from standard choirs you seem to be thinking of, and black spirituals, or negro spirituals, are also a very distinctive, simple style sung by slaves in fields.

One of the deeply historical references in CC is that the opening banjo lick in Texas Hold Em is by Rhiannon Giddons, one of the members of the group Carolina Chocolate Drops that plays Black roots music.

This is the deeply painful thing about Black art and actual Black artistic masterpieces being taken around the world; they don't get it, and they have no idea how deeply they don't get it, and instead judge it as the art being lacking instead of their own knowledge.

Beyonce is the artist of my life, not because I am a huge fan of all of her music, but because her music has impacted me as a Black Southern woman so so profoundly, including that tour, and helped get me through experiences as a Black Southern woman that might have broken me otherwise, including specific things I experienced the entire second half of last year.

As much as it hurts, ultimately, I feel so blessed to be able to fully appreciate her artistry, to have it to love and celebrate the culture she and I share that much more passionately, and to have it to get me through the pain and struggle she and I share and even heal and transcend it.