Rihanna Is Now A Billionaire And Leftists Don’t Know What To Do – The Federalist

Rihanna began trending on Twitter yesterday afterForbes revealed that the 33-year-old singer,fashion designer, and beauty mogul is now worth 1.7 billion dollars and isthe richest female musician on earth.

The news has sparked a fiery debate on eat the rich Twitter, revealing that the white privilege and systemic racism narrative is a lie and that authentic leftists dont really care about black female success.

The debate over whether its okay for Rihanna to be a billionaire highlights the tension between the white privilege lie and the reality of the American Dream. Narratives of systemic, racial, and gender inequality are the lefts path to socialism. If inequity is based on immutable qualities, then our entire American system needs to go.

Now RIHdistribute it ? https://t.co/E0FoK1QXjA

— Lakyn Thee Stylist (@OgLakyn) August 4, 2021

The path from white privilege to socialism is summed up nicely by Federalist senior contributor Georgi Boorman:

White privilege theory seeks equality of outcome, not merely the equal dispensation of individual justice. That goal can only be reached by redistribution policies that violate the principle of local governance, treat people as ethnic units, limit individuals opportunities based on race, suppress freedom of speech, and restrict the freedom to keep and control ones own money.

To the ideological leaders of the left, the Bernie Sanderses and the AOCs, Rihannas success is one of the greatest threats to their movement because she is everything an accomplished American person cant be: a black woman with a rocky start to life.

Interestingly, some leftists are giving the popular R&B star a pass.

These socialists are struggling to join their comrades in hating Rihanna. Since so many people have bought into the systemic racism narrative, they see Rihanna as someone subverting the system, and naturally, they want to cheer her on. This inability to eat Rihanna, as they would like to eat the rest of the billionaire class, is a result of the white privilege lie: They want to celebrate her success because of her race and sex.

Rihanna’s billionaire announcement happening the day after Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is a different kind of satisfaction? (although i’m sure she would have hit billionionairism -with the amount of success she’s had- sooner if she wasn’t a Black woman.)

— freddie ransome (@Ransome_Note) August 4, 2021

The people who refuse to be happy for her know the systemic racism narrative is simply a means to their desired end. Everything about Rihanna, from her sex to her skin color, and especially her upbringing, troubles the left.

Rihanna has one of the most incredible modern rags-to-riches stories. She grew up poor in a three-bedroom bungalow in Bridgetown, Barbados, where she sold clothes with her father in a stall on the street. Her father was an alcoholic and crack cocaine addict, and he physically abused her mother.

Rihanna struggled with excruciatingly painful headaches for several years during her childhood. She even had multiple CT scans for her headaches, recalling, The doctors even thought it was a tumor because it was that intense. After her parents divorced when she was 14, her health improved.

Growing up, she listened to reggae, American hip-hop, and R&B. When she was as young as 7, Rihanna began idolizing American singers like Madonna and Janet Jackson and dreamed of becoming a star herself.

As a young teen, Rihanna formed a girl group with two of her friends and was discovered by Evan Rogers, an American record producer. Rogers helped Rihanna record a demo that led to an audition with Jay-Z, who was the head of Def Jam Recordings.

Jay-Z signed Rihanna in 2005, and her music career skyrocketed. She has won nine Grammys, 13 American Music Awards, and eight Billboard Music Awards. Rihannas music, however, only accounts for a small percent of her wealth. Her money was made via her business ventures in beauty and fashion.

In the early 2010s, Rihanna began collaborating on several cosmetics collections until she launched her own line, Fenty Beauty, in 2017. Fenty Beauty, known for offering 40 different shades of foundation at its launch (now grown to 50), was an instant success.

In 2018, Rihanna launched Savage X Fenty, a lingerie brand with designs that include a wide variety of sizes and shades to match all skin tones. In 2019, she partnered with LVMH Mot Hennessy Louis Vuitton to create the Fenty fashion line.

Shes also begun dipping her toes into acting, with major roles in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017), Oceans 8 (2018), and Guava Island (2019).

From her humble beginning to her rise to fame and fortune, Rihanna is truly the embodiment of the American Dream, a bona fide self-made woman who capitalized on her remarkable talents. She deserves praise not because she is black and female, but because of her smarts, talent, and resiliency despite her rocky childhood.

No one should be anything but happy for Rihanna. If youre not, youre either jealous or a radical leftist watching your entire carefully constructed narrative of the gender pay gap, white guilt, and systemic racism fall apart at the seams.

Evita Duffy is an intern at The Federalist, co-founder of the Chicago Thinker, and a senior at the University of Chicago. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1

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Rihanna Is Now A Billionaire And Leftists Don't Know What To Do - The Federalist