
In Beyonce’s music video we see different types of symbolism throughout the video shown through what she wears, what she does, and what is in her surroundings. Beyonce portrays a very strong independent African American showing how their life is in this day in age with all the racism and riots in her music video. She brings new light to the African American community in her music video sharing her feelings towards the hate and racism that people in this country have. She stands up for the rights of African Americans everywhere and fights for the community to end the hate and crime that goes along in this racist society. In her music video she shares clips of riots of the upset African American community towards the people that are hurting and abusing them. Beyonce stands for activism in her music video wanting people to get more involved in making the community better by leading people away from the racism and hate that is in our current society. When we take a in deep look into Beyonce’s music video she points out the problems of the African American Community in different scenarios and by wearing and showing the power of the black and white dress symbolizing passion and strength in her efforts to convey the message that racism needs to end.

Beyonce wears many different outfits throughout the music video showing her strong will to fight for her background and community showing the racism and hate that needs to end.  One example is the black dress she wears showing her strong independent nature, power, and also shows the mourning side like she’s at a funeral. She’s showing that she is mourning for her community and the losses that they have suffered while being strong and showing the way for her people. When looking throughout the music video as a whole, Beyonce shows many symbols of the hate and racism that is in society towards the African American race. The dark is the riots and hate that are shown throughout the music video that she hopes to fix in society. Beyonce gives us a new ideal about how society is and should be; unfortunately the society that we live in today is drowning in racism, but she shows us how we should be standing for activism.

Another example is the white dress that she also wears throughout her music video to show the upright posture and constriction of society. The white dress gives her music video a sort light to her community showing them the way to a brighter more uncorrupt future. She wants to give the audience a new light as well hopefully influencing the rest of their society to follow her lead.  She wants to bring to light the issues that we face as a community and as a world. When we look at what she wears as a symbolism like the white dress and the black dress show the light and dark of the video. The white dress is the light which is the goodness and happiness that the African American race still keeps after being demeaned and shaded by society. Everything that Beyonce stands for is what we as a society should look for standing up for the right purpose to better our community as a whole. (2 new paragraphs)

During Beyonce’s music video the different scenes show us the riots and different scenarios showing the African American society getting put down and scorned. She shows how the African Americans trying to fight back peacefully towards the white people being hateful to them. She shows us in the music video how our society as a whole is getting torn apart because of certain people starting racism and riots. Showing us all these problems with how the African American community is dealing with these issues. She wants to protect her heritage and culture of people of the hate that is getting piled on them. She stands up for what she believes not for her own sake but for the sake of her community that she is a part of. We can really see her trying to fix the problems by standing up for activism and showing us how we can use activism to help her out. As a society as a whole she wants us to come together and fix our problems together not separate. She wants all the hate and racism to stop tearing races apart from each other. Beyonce wants to make her voice heard to stand for activism and help her bring us as a country together. Beyonce’s music video uses the different scenes to let us see the problems and the solutions of helping out the country as a whole, to bring all races together and stop the racism.

Beyonce’s music video tells us a lot about the problem of racism is in our community by showing us different scenes of the African Americans being ridiculed and criticized. She wants for everyone who watches her music video to help out her culture and community by standing with the African American society. Activism is the problem solver that Beyonce wants people to get out of her music video. Beyonce portrays activism by people getting together to fight against the racism that is burning down society. In our world today many of things have happened to the African American society dealing with racism. Racism is tearing this society apart putting races against each other and Beyonce wants to end that tear. When our society is dealing with all the hate and suffering that people put on others. Beyonce puts this in our heads and shows us how the suffering is when we watch this music video, but she also shows us how we can fix the problem.  When we take a in depth look into Beyonce’s music video she points out the problems of the African American by showing different symbols showing her passion and strength in solving the problem of racism.