Ray Rice vs. Solange and Jay Z
Jai Murphy
Mass Comm
9/10/14
Violence against one another is not okay either way male or female. The Ray Rice, Jay Z and Solange incident happened the exact same way just the opposite sex. This fight within the celebrities had the world talking. “What Happened? Or is there sound to hear what they’re saying?” The reason this has an effect on our culture is because both Jay Z and Ray Rice are huge role models to people. In the music industry Jay Z is a role model to people because people want to be just like him. Ray Rice is the man in the NFL and he has people that want to play in the league and that look up to him as their favorite player. The difference between the videos is that one is a male and one is a female who’s doing the hitting. No one knows what really happened or what caused the fight they just see hitting. Now since Solange was hitting Jay Z people didn’t make it a big deal, some of the peoples comments were “Solange got them hands! or She can fight!” people were basically worshipping her, not understanding that she was attacking him. What if he would have swung back? Then Jay z would have been labeled as a woman beater, but instead he didn’t he just kept moving her. In the middle of everything I still am trying to figure out why Beyonce didn’t do anything. Instead of people understanding that Solange is a woman and not hitting her was the right thing to do, people are saying he’s a female dog and a vagina. All of this is because he has respect not only for women but his wife, by not hitting her sister. One thing I did find interesting while researching is that some reporters say the reason Solange went off like that is because she found out Jay Z has been hitting Beyonce. Beyonce has a song out and in this song one of her lyrics say “Shit goes down when it’s a billion dollars on an elevator.” Shocker that happened, could that be the reason Beyonce wasn’t fighting back? Now Ray Rice and his fiancée, that whole video was disrespectful to
Mass Comm
9/10/14
Violence against one another is not okay either way male or female. The Ray Rice, Jay Z and Solange incident happened the exact same way just the opposite sex. This fight within the celebrities had the world talking. “What Happened? Or is there sound to hear what they’re saying?” The reason this has an effect on our culture is because both Jay Z and Ray Rice are huge role models to people. In the music industry Jay Z is a role model to people because people want to be just like him. Ray Rice is the man in the NFL and he has people that want to play in the league and that look up to him as their favorite player. The difference between the videos is that one is a male and one is a female who’s doing the hitting. No one knows what really happened or what caused the fight they just see hitting. Now since Solange was hitting Jay Z people didn’t make it a big deal, some of the peoples comments were “Solange got them hands! or She can fight!” people were basically worshipping her, not understanding that she was attacking him. What if he would have swung back? Then Jay z would have been labeled as a woman beater, but instead he didn’t he just kept moving her. In the middle of everything I still am trying to figure out why Beyonce didn’t do anything. Instead of people understanding that Solange is a woman and not hitting her was the right thing to do, people are saying he’s a female dog and a vagina. All of this is because he has respect not only for women but his wife, by not hitting her sister. One thing I did find interesting while researching is that some reporters say the reason Solange went off like that is because she found out Jay Z has been hitting Beyonce. Beyonce has a song out and in this song one of her lyrics say “Shit goes down when it’s a billion dollars on an elevator.” Shocker that happened, could that be the reason Beyonce wasn’t fighting back? Now Ray Rice and his fiancée, that whole video was disrespectful to