Black Women Owned the MTV Video Music Awards

By Corey Townsend via https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/

Like Issa Rae, I watch award shows to root for everybody black.

When a black person hit my screen during the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, I turned into a proud mother who was equipped with a sign and screams filled with the happiness that comes from knowing another one of our people is achieving their dreams.

The VMAs are an unseasoned event, but throughout the night, black women continuously proved that we invented music.

Lizzo Made That Stage Her Bitch

“My girl Lizzo is 100 percent that bitch,” yelled H-Town hottie Megan Thee Stallion. And she did not lie. When Lizzo hit the stage, she asked the question that many of us have been wondering since the dawn of time: “Why men great ’til they gotta be great?!” I feel once we answer this question we’d be better off as a people. She got on that stage and showed her ass, figuratively and literally, as she performed in front of an inflatable butt. She started out the performance giving us an Olivia Pope moment in a full-length trench and then revealed a yellow swimsuit to presumably show the world that color was …

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