What makes Tori different is not just her soulful pipes and iconic curly, big hair. It's her undeniable faith and values that she's managed to bring to the biggest, most secular stages in contemporary music.

Kudos Beyonce, on a video well-done and taking an affirmative stand for Blackness in America, it is greatly appreciated. However, your much-needed message was drastically marred by the use of a very derogatory word towards women. Let's all lay the B-word where it should have stayed, on a scrap piece of paper in the recording studio. This is one fan who will not be fooled.

While I appreciate the sentiments, please do not market me as your MINORITY IN NEED OF LIFTING. Tell them why I am good at what I do and what qualities I bring to the table other than some DNA strands I had no hand in creating.