A lot of fair points have been made in this thread already. I’d like to add to this point:
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Originally posted by Adonis
The answer is simple. People like the idea of equality but when a black woman is more talented and acclaimed the others feel bothered by that. It's this whole thing with people where they are happy to like black people and their work so long as they don't get too successful or at their own same level or better. The bottom line is Beyonce's success is threatening to them. This is why people hate so hard.
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I don’t think all Beyonce haters are racists, that would be delusional. But I can’t help but feel some are. Those who are from countries where they barely see any black people, like some in south America and some in South Asia for example. Think about how many users know Madonna well but didn’t even know Janet Jackson, and how many consider Janet local. This trend seems to repeat all through history for some reason.
It probably bewilders them to see any black person so successful and praised. They don’t want to appear racist, but they really sort of are. The same people might not even be white, but they’ll easily get into a Madonna, a Britney Spears, a Lady GaGa, a Shakira, a Taylor Swift, etc. They’ll easily get into genres like pop-rock, even country with them it seems. The only black people they might mention as to not appear racist are Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Rihanna, and Mariah Carey (who’s literally only ¼ black). And in that context, those four are in a way just tokens.
Some of the first insults they think of are racist ones like monkey, ape, big lips, excess hair (conforming to European beauty standards), fat ass (skinny girls are probably viewed as attractive where they come from, since they obviously don’t know that a lot of men in the US prefer women with fuller frames, not to mention her frame is literally what most women envy). I could go on and on.
Anyway, the way the world works in that most people seem to prefer white American artists only. But on the contrary, the way the world works in that the US is the biggest market, and anyone who is big there can be big almost anywhere. Beyonce is one of the biggest black artists at the moment, and she has been for well over a decade.
Maybe she doesn’t fit their perception of an all-American girl (even though many of these racists I’m referring to need to read about the African slave trade since apparently it shocks them when a black person says they are American; and they need to understand how ignorant they are in stereotyping all african-americans, and especially all black people around the world), but black people have a huge influence on american culture and the music they listen to. That is if you listen to rock, disco, hip-hop, for example. And it’s ironic that even if they say they don’t like genres like R&B or hip-hop when it’s Beyonce or Kanye, they love it all of a sudden when it’s Iggy or Sam smith.
I rambled, but acting like race isn’t a factor is ridiculous. It has a lot to do with the US being racist too, though, and how it still in this day and age would rather promote a Justin Bieber over a Bruno Mars. I can’t expect them to understand america’s racist history, but it would help if they did. It’s ridiculous how they hate black people yet they’ve probably never even met one. They probably just have their heads filled with racist lies from the media (the US has done that for centuries). Some stereotypes are true, but again if they understood the history they would understand why some black people’s emotions run high. And deservedly so since even in the US mainland we still have racist bastards who call us “porch monkey” and “knuckle dragger,” and say all our people have ever been were “farm laborers,” despite how many contributions black people have given. It’s racism in general. And if the world is to progress, it needs to stop.
It's not complicated. Neither Mariah or Buble pays for my bills so I shouldn't be too personal with them. Maiko taught me valuable programming skills, so of course I would like him as a great friend. Even though I think his fave is trash. 
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