Girl A announces a new Black scholarship months immediately after suing a Black singer for her identify

The nation group formerly identified as Girl Antebellum is both making a marginal try at charity or a whole-blown shift in direction of belated destruction manage. Either way, it would all be tremendous laughable if it was not so fucking infuriating.

On Friday afternoon, the team introduced a freshly formed LadyAID Scholarship Fund. Though the base initiative was formed 8 years ago, this yr they are dedicating a specific fund to Traditionally Black Colleges and Universities “in hopes of assisting ease the money obstacles to greater training & empower Black communities around the region.” It appears somewhat commendable, but the gesture is regrettably overshadowed by their possess unmitigated audacity.

It was only 5 months ago when we were being chatting about the lawsuit that the band filed towards a Black jazz singer, whose serious name is Anita White and has been accomplishing below the Woman A moniker for around 20 several years. Right after selecting to abbreviate the controversial “Antbellum” in their longtime go-by and attempting to encourage her to forfeit her title without the need of giving ideal compensation—which the singer claims she’ll will need to go over the value and penalties of thoroughly rebranding, the Grammy-successful trio filed a legal request to use the identify even with the crystal clear model confusion, saying that they’ve constantly harbored the title Lady A, even if they under no circumstances produced any written content underneath the shorthand or even acknowledged it publicly. The situation has but to be settled and the blues singer not too long ago thanked The Everyday Clearly show on her Twitter account for lambasting the conflict.

There is no way of realizing the band’s true intentions guiding the generation of this scholarship. We can definitely make a guess and believe that this is a clear try to curry favor with the quite neighborhood they slighted the second they tried to wield their too much privilege in order to steal a Black woman’s literal title (that is, immediately after getting on a identify that signaled the days of slavery in the very first area), but that’s even now technically conjecture. What we will say is that it’s going to take a whole lot a lot more than a bullshit fund to make amends for the precise damage Girl Antagonist has induced not only to the first Girl A, but to the neighborhood that had to check out a group prioritize their ability and privilege throughout a time of actual civil unrest, when Black people around the globe where protesting day by day in a struggle for their genuine life. Unless of course the state stars strategy on building authentic amends with White and using concentrated methods in direction of restorative justice, this is a different insult to toss on major of the pile of gross missteps they’ve incurred because July.

But hey, if you are a Black university student who doesn’t thoughts accepting their cash (and you should not, for the reason that they have a lot of it!), then you can stop by the LadyAID site for a lot more info.