Why is it a privalege just because they are black? Is that like their we're not racists privalege because they are black? Where does that line of thought stop?
For the record on the ridiculous subject...I never thought she was black for a minute lmao...never even entered my head. Latina maybe...but hey...we all see what we see I guess and again, never thought the use of the word was overly jarring either.
It is culturally accepted for Black people to use the N-word as it is not culturally accepted for other races to use the N-word. They took what was a racial slur used against them by mostly white people and took it for themselves and only themselves.
This reminds me of that incident when Ron Jans (very dutch, very white) when he was coach of the FC Cincinatti (MLS) and sang along in the locker room to a rap song containing the N-word in the lyrics. Remember that discussion between JD and Turk from Scrubs? Yeah anyway, it blew up, he was deemed a racist (and let me tell you as a dutchman that Ron Jans is one of the nicest guys in his field of work, if anything too nice) and as a result was forced to resign.
Now obviously, the N-word and its use are a little more sensitive of a subject in the USA than it is in the Netherlands, so as nice as Ron Jans is, he obviously miscalculated the impact of his little sing-along. And full disclosure in the Netherlands it was treated as a storm in a glass of water incident by the media. Partly it's because the N-word isn't really embedded in our language and culture, we only hear it in popular media like rap and American movies. So to us it's more of a pop-culture reference than a slur. Probably because we don't censor anything.
Like if you listen to daytime radio and a Snoop Dogg song comes on, you WILL hear the N-word, uncensored. And if the song is popular enough, chances are some white college kids WILL sing along with it without bleeping themselves.
As for Ayana, Word of God (ie
ChainZero ) has stated she is black, and black enough to have the N-word ingrained in her daily vocabulary and that's good enough for me. As for her looks, mixed heritage can do that to a person. I'm mixed heritage myself (Indo-European) and other than dark hair and the ability to get a darker tan, I could easily pass for white. My GF is half Turkish and looks whiter than me.
Alicia Keyes with a different wardrobe could probably pass as Middle-Eastern, or Southern European or maybe Latin and I think Ayana isn't too dissimilar to Alicia in physical ambiguity. I'm not sure if Alicia ever used the N-word in her lyrics though, not a fan of her music, but I bet she could if she wanted to and no one would bat an eye.
Yet when Ayana does it everyone loses their minds. Go figure.
