Florida congressional candidate claims Beyonce isn’t really black, she’s Italian

Nominee, Beyonce Knowles-Carter, and Jay-Z at the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA on Sunday, January 5, 2020.

When Gawker was still a thing, they had a series called Blackbag where they discussed and dismantled pop culture conspiracies. I still think about some of those articles all the time, because it’s fun to try to piece together various conspiracies, like that crazy one about the Denver airport. They did one on Beyonce’s pregnancy with Blue Ivy too, one of the biggest conspiracies of the past decade. Beyonce and Jay-Z seem to both have a lot of conspiracies around them, and they even play into those conspiracies with their Illuminati-triangle thing and mentions of the Illuminati in their lyrics. One of the conspiracies that I 100% believe and have believed for some time is that Beyonce shaved several years off her official age. I’m not trying to create drama in the Beyhive, but I fully remember when Beyonce & I were close in age circa Destiny’s Child-era, and now she’s years younger than me? Nah. Anyway, there’s one Florida congressional candidate who sees all of those Beyonce conspiracies and is ready to raise them to the next level.

K.W. Miller isn’t getting into Formation. Miller, a no-party-affiliation candidate in Florida’s 18th Congressional District, went viral over Independence Day Weekend with a tweet that linked Beyoncé to George Soros. Miller, who is running for the seat currently occupied by incumbent Brian Mast, made the first Beyoncé reference at 7:48 p.m. on Saturday night and hashtagged #Trump2020 and #QAnon.

“Beyoncé is not even African American. She is faking this for exposure,” the tweet said. “Her real name is Ann Marie Lastrassi. She is Italian. This is all part of the Soros Deep State agenda for the Black Lives Matter movement. BEYONCÉ YOU ARE ON NOTICE!”

That tweet had been re-tweeted 9.9 thousand times as of Sunday afternoon. Later on Saturday, Miller called Beyonce a “Marxist Deep State Operative who has no place in American pop culture.”

Miller, a graduate of Catholic University of America in 1992, went on to send three more tweets about the singer on Sunday morning, one of which claimed that her song “Formation” contains information proving the artist worshiped in “Satanist churches.” Finally, before turning to LaBelle, Miller linked one of Beyoncé’s most famous lyrics — “Becky with the Good Hair” from the song “Sorry” — to music and technology writer Becky Hogge.

“Looking more into Beyoncé’s coded globalist messages,” he tweeted at 8:52 a.m. on Sunday. “Who is ‘Becky With The Good Hair’ who she encourages people to call while apologizing?

“Oh…. a Soros operative? …Interesting. All goes through London.”

[From Florida Politics]

“Beyonce is an Italian woman named Ann Marie Lastrassi” is a next-level conspiracy, alongside “Taylor Swift is a clone of a satanist” and “Avril Lavigne died and was replaced by an actress.” I just don’t know where some people get these things. I’m pretty sure that Florida Man over here probably got it from QAnon. For what it’s worth.

So, let’s just take a minute and play along – why would George Soros hire an Italian-American woman to “play” an African-American singer who, through the course of her career, gradually becomes more involved in Black Lives Matter and racial justice movements? Like, for what purpose? Why wouldn’t Soros hire a black woman??

Beyonce and Jay Z enjoy a meal at Hotel Pitrizza during Beyonce's Birthday trip

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  1. Tx_mom says:

    My head hurts now.

  2. VS says:

    I don’t think he really believes it; he is pandering to an audience. The same audience that hates Michelle, Meghan, Serena, Venus, basically any accomplished WOC

    • Nanny to the Rescue says:

      He probably doesn’t.

      But I’d really like to see the “proof” of it. I know it’s not true, but that anyone even came up with something so outlandish – I find it entertaining.
      Was there ever a woman named Ann Marie Lastrassi that just happened to look a bit like Beyoncé?
      Did she passed him on the street once? Visited him in a dream?
      Or did he just see “secret documents” with Soros’ and Beyonce’s signature about this act of hers?

      I want details, I want to laugh at something, not stress over politics and corona!

  3. Laalaa says:

    This pandemic has obviously hit us in an exceptional way, because the amount and the imagination of unbelieveable theories has been A LOT.

  4. Nev says:

    this is beyond racist and so insulting. and this person is in politics making decisions about people’s lives.

    • Mac says:

      This person wants to be in politics by running as an independent for a seat he won’t win. It’s probably some kind of grift given how he is pandering to the Qanon-ers.

  5. Sayrah says:

    Do what? I swear we’re living in the upside down

  6. Mel says:

    Lol, some people are so gullible.

  7. Amethyst says:

    LMAO at the pic of her drinking vino!

  8. Charfromdarock says:

    If he graduated in 1992, that makes him around 50. Can you imagine being a middle aged man walking around spouting Beyoncé conspiracy theories?

    Somebody drank more than lemonade.

    • Kkat says:

      It would make him 45/46
      I’m 50 and I graduated in 87. I’ll be 51 next month

      • Korra says:

        I think Char means college. If he graduated college in 1992, that would roughly put him at 50. Looking at his pics through you could easily mistake for older.

  9. Arpeggi says:

    I mean, Soros was really in for the long haul, wasn’t he? Hasn’t Beyoncé been competing and singing since she was a tween? So it’d mean that Soros would have had to invent a full family (since her dad was hers/DC’s manager), pay for Destiny’s Child to become successful, get all the various DC’s members on board and make sure they stay silent even when they leaved the group… A 20 years scheme for what purpose exactly?! It’s the kind of theory that doesn’t even take you 1sec to realize it makes no freackin’ sense. C’mon guys, try harder at least!

    And like, I know the Carters donate a lot of money, but (and same with Soros), they aren’t exactly redistributing wealth: they’re all still crazy rich aka far from the Marxist doctrine

  10. Mabs A'Mabbin says:

    So fabulous. Keep it up! All Atlas Shrugged conspiracy-toting pieces of conservative shit (like you actually read Rand) should please school the world on which Black people aren’t really Black. Hell, your Constitution-loving ass cherry-picks which items are diamond-clad and which are rubber. Poor thing can’t handle votes mailed in? Please. Talk louder. Every second of every day. Independent…yeah… right.

  11. lucy2 says:

    Isn’t it fun to live in a time when unhinged lunatics seek public office, and get national attention? (sarcasm)

  12. Poisonella says:

    I remember someone saying she went to school with Beyoncé- was it Gabrielle Union? Anyway, said Beyoncé was 6 or 7 years older that she admitted to.

    • osito says:

      I’m not sure who said that, but I remember when Destiney’s Child first hit the scene, and I was in middle school. Beyoncé, Kelly, Michelle and the others were not just a couple of years older than me then, and they are not now. They also look a million times better than I ever will (at least the three I can name do), so there’s no shade meant in pointing out this fact.

      I’m not a stan, even though I like her and I’m rooting for Blue Ivy to continue outshining her haters, I’d rather talk about their ages, pillow babies, hair extensions (Bey claimed that she didn’t wear them when they first came out, which was a lie) and all that fun stuff any day of the week than give any form of attention to this current BS. To claim a Black woman is not really Black but what is now considered white and simply masquerading as Black and fooling all of us liberal simps is crazy like a fox. It’s just racist dog-whistling about white excellence — he’s saying that even when it’s doing something he doesn’t like, it’s still smarter than anything the Blacks could do on their own, and it takes the brilliance of a white conservative like him to illuminate the hoax for us all. His supporters hear it even if they think it’s a dumb point. They just wish he’d be more blunt about his white supremacy because then it would be ok for *them* to be open racists, too.

    • Valiantly Varnished says:

      Gabrielle Union and Beyoncé didnt go to school together. And 6 or 7 years older would put her in her mid to late forties. That’s just silly. Could she have shaved a year or two off her age? Sure. But 6 or 7? Now THATS a conspiracy theory.!

  13. molly says:

    Yes, this woman is unhinged.
    (But the theory of her fake pregnancy ain’t wrong….)

  14. megs283 says:

    Oh, oh dear. I went to CUA and I promise that most of the people there are completely NORMAL.

  15. Rea says:

    That picture isnt even of an italian woman. It is a picture of am english woman called rachel who worked as a beyonce look alike

  16. OriginalLara says:

    I won’t dignify that ludicrous claim with a comment because what’s there to say?
    But regarding Beyonce’s age, I remember her being always roughly ten years younger than me and I’ve just looked her up, she’s still ten years younger. Obviously I’m old enough to remember her from her very early Destiny’s Child beginnings so I’m not sure what kind of age conspiracy there is.

    • Boxy Lady says:

      Same here. DC hit it big when I was a sophomore in college and Beyonce was 16. And today, she’s still 4 years younger than I. I don’t get it. 🤷‍♀️

  17. LoonaticCap says:

    I mean.. The Ann Marie Lastrassi was an event on itself on black twitter a few weeks ago so I’m happy to see it here.
    I have a love/disappointment story with Beyoncé, as in, I’ve always loved her, but also been so disappointed with so many of her *blindspots* like, singing and recreating african music, dance (and flat out copying African artists videos and moves). Yet she never includes her dear Africa to her tours. Like. Ever. She went to South Africa twice because it was good PR (Nelson Mandela concert many years ago and the Global Ctzn concert a couple years ago). We have the money. She doesn’t want to come.
    Anyway but I love her music, her drive, her artistry, her work ethic and all that.
    All this to say, of all the conspiracy theories I’ve seen, this one belongs in the same bucket of “fake pregnancy” and “fake age”.
    There is enough proof out there that she is her age (or maybe a couple years older if you insist).

  18. Tiff says:

    I can’t believe I missed this! That thread was one of the highlights of my day and also worried me about how stupid this country is. When he asked why Beyonce had ladies getting into formation, I hollered! Then he brought in the Ms. Patti LaBelle, who was somewhere minding her own business, and started talking about her! I mean… even satanist love ‘New Attitude’ I guess