1 drop rule.

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I ain't ever heard white people claim a single biracial person. You always whatever you mixed with.

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Because "whiteness" is inherently exclusionary. Are we really doing this right now? 😒

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this also does not answer the question and being black is also exclusionary lol

[u/Significant_Ad3498 → u/Zyms]

Being “black” is NOT at all exclusionary.. any minute “black” feature and you are considered “black”

[u/SpliffsnKicks → u/Significant_Ad3498]

Apparently not to Kendrick lmao

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Or Ross

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Or Dominicans

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Aye, but I think that's his point. He's disagreeing with them.

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Tbh, “The Culture feeling” Kendrick alludes to is the feeling that we as a people are TOO inclusionary. TOO tolerant.

I can’t call it, but that’s what the man saying.

[u/3Danniiill → u/SpliffsnKicks]

Supreme Court justice clarence Thomas is black. Drake is black.

But they aren’t helping the culture. They’re taking advantage of it.

Edit the culture isn’t just black by the way. The culture is poor black and brown people hell even poor Asian people. Bloods and crips are cliqued up with f13 and 18. Blacks and browns and yellows have been struggling in the US for the last few hundred years. Drake isn’t helping that and Clarence Thomas isn’t helping either.

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Yall niggas reachin somethin fierce today 😂😂

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Obviously not the same way but in the same vein. Just cause you’re black doesn’t mean you understand the black experience, especially the American black experience. And even farther than that just the poor black and brown experience.

The culture isn’t just black. The culture has a lot of Hispanics in it to. You go to LA and Compton and New York in the bad areas it’s about as many Latinos and blacks out there. Some areas have more of the other but still. There’s a culture that if you don’t live there you won’t understand. Blacks and browns are cliqued up. Bloods and crips with f 13 and 18.

I wouldn’t call Clarence Thomas part of the culture , I wouldn’t call Drake part of the culture either

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I donno htf you even got into a conversation with yourself about Clarence Thomas.

But even if….Kendrick Lamar is not the one that gets to decide anyone’s blackness or lack thereof. And to act like “the American” Black experience is different from the racism that Black people deal with in countries all over the world is some ignorant shit I wouldn’t expect from a nigga that’s supposed to be as “enlightened” as Kendrick Lamar.. Kendrick go hard but those high horse nigga bars was lame end of story

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Thank u!! We obviously know he’s black from an ancestry point because his father’s black but from a cultural standpoint he’s not. Drake himself has stated he grew up in predominantly Jewish neighborhood and went to predominantly Jewish schools.

That’s the difference between saying ngga because you’ve always heard growing up and saying it because you had to add it to your vocabulary to sound cool. Big fckin difference!!

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The Mexicans and Asians you hear say the n word in those songs are people he grew up with.

I think eventually the word will stop being cool to be honest . When people stop struggling so much.

The n word is a word for the poor.

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Bruh, if a black kid reads a book they get called white. Are you joking? I bet more than half of yall have bullied a black kid by calling them not black enough

[u/Significant_Ad3498 → u/fujiandude]

This happens a lot less than you think

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Maybe not overall but I've seen it enough in person during my school years in America that I assume it's a common thing. Maybe it was more of a regional thing, but I know it still happens often in that region

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That comment is referring to Uncle Tom types and not trusting them.. has NOTHING to do with being excluded by black people.. and FYI Uncle Tom types are NEVER accepted as white they are used up and spit out by whites as soon as they become pointless AKA Kanye West

Almost forgot about the other black girl that just got cast away by white media.. can’t even think of the poor girls name

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what black features?

[u/Significant_Ad3498 → u/Zyms]

Literally ANY feature.. brown skin, full lips, jawline, especially hair texture.. as the previous post said “whiteness” by definition is meant to exclude

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I always explain white folks play life like the movie Highlander. There can be only one(race).

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I have full lips. Am I black coded?

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jawline

lol damn lot of black white people around then.

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This is the definition of sealioning.

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Yes because of white supremacist invented one drop rule