If you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it

I was recently at a dinner party, we were listening to music, and I asked that Beyonce's, 'Single Ladies' be put on.

The only thing I love more than that song is that music video, and I cannot understand why anyone could dislike it, but my request was met with opposition.

One of the complaints I received about the song was Beyonce acts 'too white'.

I personally can't stand people who consider themselves open-minded, but evidently have no idea what being open-minded is about.

They comment made, predicated that Beyonce's behavior was somehow fraudulent, was based on what?

Do they have some insight into how Beyonce SHOULD act? Are these insights perhaps based on her ethnicity? If so what exactly are these insights?

Furthermore, how did he determine the guidelines for acting, 'too white', 'regular white', 'too black', and 'regular black'?

Are his guidelines based on a dichotomous view or some sort of spectrum containing other ethnicities?

But before I could ask any of these questions, he proceeded to explain his comments. His dislike for Beyonce comes from her personal appearance, her sometimes long blond straight hair and her skin tone (more specifically, an alleged change from darker to lighter), proclivities usually associated with members of the caucasian persuasion.

He balked about how 'young african american girls aspire to be like Beyonce'.

Obviously that statement cannot be held as fact, due to an innumerable amount of faults in the basis of this argument, even though he treated it as such.

I don't really understand why he didn't also balk at society, (if true) for making that one young african american girl known as beyonce deciding that's what she needed to look like in order to succeed?

Another thing I cannot understand is, even if Beyonce has decided to change her looks to look more 'white', what's wrong with that? There's all this hoopla out there that we're genetically geared to find people of mixed ethnic backgrounds more attractive, also it seems Beyonce has not abandoned her african american heritage in the least. She still performs what many would consider to be culturally african american music, she still flaunt features that are notoriously associated with african american women, (i believe she was involved with some song about being 'bootylicious', I'll have to check my sources), and she's married to an african american man, (which may or may not have anything to do with being true to your ethnicity).

It's most likely Beyonce was doing what she found necessary to be marketable and relevant.

It's also more likely, that person that made these observations, is a dumbass.