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Jamelia has schooled Piers Morgan over his ​attention-grabbing Beyoncé outburst.

Yesterday in a Daily Mail column that bordered on self-parody, the journalist accused Beyoncé of playing the "race card" on her new album Lemonade.

Morgan said that he preferred the singer when she was having tea and scones with him in London five years ago before she developed a "deeply political and race-fuelled tone to her work".

Jamelia has written a blog post in response, praising Beyoncé for being "unapologetically loud & proud of her blackness​" and criticising Morgan for his comments.

"I absolutely understand why you didn't get the Beyoncé album, *newsflash honey*…it wasn't made for you…and i'm going to need you to be cool with that," she wrote.

"Now, I found quite a few of the comments in your piece to be highly 'inflammatory & agitating'. As a black woman, i am deeply offended by your lack of due care when writing this article, but i would like to take this opportunity to help you out, and assist you in making the whole 'Lemonade thing' a little less bitter for you.

"You are a middle aged, British white man, you have no idea, i repeat, NO. IDEA. What it is like to be a Black Woman, and furthermore, the sacrificial, struggle-filled, tongue, mask-wearing fight it is to become a successful one."

Jamelia went on to say that Morgan preferred the 'old' Beyoncé because that's when she was making her blackness "palatable".


"'The New Beyoncé wants to be seen as a black woman.' This line made me laugh out loud," she wrote. "Beyoncé has always been black, she just did what millions of black people feel the need to do to gain success, she made her black palatable to you, which is why you're such a big fan!

"Same thing Oprah did, and the Obamas. This is what black people do, along with working twice as hard to get half as much, we dilute ourselves and our culture, so you accept us. I guess some of us have had enough.

"Being black is not an affliction. No race should be seen as such. Celebrating our heritage should not be seen as a threat. We just want what you have, fairness and equal potential, and if you don't give it to us…we'll fight to get it for our children.

"Oh, and on the subject of 'The Race Card', there would be no possibility of it being played if we didn't have it in our hand."

Beyoncé's album has garnered worldwide praise for shining a light on the Black Lives Matter movement while Lemonade's powerful visuals include the mothers of unarmed black men killed by US police over the last three years.​