Huh.
Black women ruled music in 2016, whether the country was ready for it or not: https://t.co/E3gbfkyfnj pic.twitter.com/oKoK9mw5I4
— Slate (@Slate) January 1, 2017
Whether the country was ready for it or not. You don’t say? Gosh, apparently Americans only started buying music made by black women in 2016 …
Seriously, is Slate this stupid or were they just trolling?
@Slate Dear infants: Understand that history did not begin the day you were born. Then Google The Supremes, Aretha Franklin & Gladys Knight
— John Sheridan (@JohnSheridan12) January 1, 2017
Infants indeed. Aretha Franklin was unavailable for comment but you know she absolutely rolled her eyes if she caught wind of this horse manure.
This level of race baiting bargle can only be written by someone who has never figured out how to use an interwebs search engine. @Slate
— D.W.Robinson (@_DWRobinson) January 1, 2017
Click bait. FIFY.
@Slate this may be the biggest #fakenews #fakenews the new year. Black women have kicked ass and been music leaders for a long time. pic.twitter.com/Sd9mKGt05C
— FMSD14 (@FMSD14) January 1, 2017
Billie Holiday was also unavailable for comment, and Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Etta James …
@Slate Tina Turner would be available for comment if you knew anything about music.
— GregEsq (@GregEsq) January 1, 2017
That. ^
@Slate Silly. Marion Anderson, Ella, Aretha, Diana Ross, Ertha Kitt, Leontyne Price, Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey Whitney Houston Roberta Flack
— maryincolorado (@maryincolorado1) January 1, 2017
Wow, seems the country has been celebrating black women in music for a LOT longer than just 2016.
@Slate Yawn
— d w donahoo (@esugrad72) January 1, 2017
Word.
@Slate apparently has never heard of Ella Fitzgerald, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, Janet Jackson, Billie Holliday, & Nina Simone
— FeistyMonk (@FeistyMonk) January 1, 2017
Psh. The country apparently wasn’t ready back then.
@Slate THIS is how we're starting 2017? The country is just ready for good music, no matter who the hell sings it. Stop trolling!
— Colorado RedTraci (@goptraci) January 1, 2017
Slate has gotta Slate.
@Slate Obviously the country was ready, because they BOUGHT THE MUSIC. Enough with the #fakenews racial division.
— We're an Idiocracy (@Melvin_Udall_) January 1, 2017
But fake news is their bread and butter.
@Slate so I guess my teen yrs were a dream Whitney, Janet, Salt n Pepa, Toni B, Tina Turner, Mariah, Pointer Sisters, Sade #SlateRaceBait
— Sean Sovereign (@RiteyIndependnt) January 1, 2017
Awww the 80’s … psh, the country was totally not ready back then.
@Slate right because nobody listened to Aretha Franklin or Dianna Ross 40 years ago.
— {(Edward);} (@US395) January 1, 2017
Nope.
Ha!
@Slate Based on sales by black female artists, I would say the country was obviously ready. You are addicted to playing the race card.
— Walter Hellums (@walter_hellums) January 1, 2017
Of course they are, it’s the only way they can get traffic to their ridiculous site.
@Slate I'm pretty sure if they're ruling we're ready for it.
— Mateo (@stfuworld) January 1, 2017
Boom.
