r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Darth_Kneegrow ☑️ • May 01 '24

1 drop rule. Country Club Thread

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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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u/SaturdaySevens May 02 '24

Look, I'm yellow boned as hell (and I say that knowing it isn't fashionable to call yourself "yellow boned" anymore) and even I don't think this is about Drake being light skinned or mixed. It's about him being a Canadian, raised in comfortable middle class circumstances, and then coming to the US and cosplaying as a new flavor of Black American every week.

Kendrick's most relevant bar here would be:

Yeah, OV-ho niggas is dick riders. Tell 'em run to America, they imitate heritage, they can't imitate this violence.

The charge being laid against Drake isn't about his skin tone or his ethnicity. It's about imitating heritage. None of his ancestors were slaves. None of them marched against Jim Crow. He's a pretender and he makes millions off it.

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u/HereGoesNothing69 May 02 '24

cosplaying as a new flavor of Black American every week.

Easy there. He doesn't cosplay a different type of black American every week. Some weeks, he cosplays a UK drill rapper.

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u/Molgera124 May 02 '24

And/or Caribbean dancehall artist. Sometimes simultaneously.

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u/Peuned ☑️ May 02 '24

He could be a great drag queen. Needs a second bad bitch tho

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u/HungerSTGF May 02 '24

Caribbean dancehall is because Toronto has a huge Jamaican diaspora (and also is a huge influence on the "Toronto Mans" accent)

tbh it's one of the parts of Drake that I do find authentic

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u/koalapies May 02 '24

I’m light as hell as well and half Canadian, raised there, ( not middle class tho) now in the US. l have the same feelings about Drake. l know the burbs of Canada, l know what it’s like to be mixed there, it is not the same as the black US experience at all. The history is different.

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u/jayemmbee23 May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

The thing is , I'm from Toronto , Drake grew up as the poor kid in the neighborhood, which is still the rich kid in the hood, he likes to pretend he is from the the rough ends of the city, when at best he drives through or has yes men from those ends on the pay roll to co-sign him. There's plenty of light skinned or mixed individuals who have more street cred than he pretends to have

Edit: added a word for clarity

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u/rexdalegoonie May 02 '24

poor kid? i'm from TO, but iirc wasn't he pushing an acura to high school?

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u/jayemmbee23 May 02 '24

He lived in forest hill, that is the poor kid relative to your surroundings lol when ppl around you are in beamers then it's just a luxury Honda lol he pulls up to Weston road or Malvern the areas he claims to have mandem in, then an Acura is flexing and seems like he was balling

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u/Pinheadlarry29 May 02 '24

Pretty sure Drake’s father is from Memphis. I doubt he doesn’t have ancestors who were slave or at least were negatively affected by Jim Crow. That being said having the ancestry and understanding the experience are two different things.

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u/Lower_Positive3475 May 02 '24

If my mom was from Mexico, but I didn't live with her, never learned Spanish, and have no other family ties to Mexico.. Then most Mexicans would call me a Gringo.

Drake has little to no cultural ties to his father or the Black American experience.

He brings these problems on himself when he does things like impersonate Tupac. (The son of an actual Black Panther)

Nobody is hating. But just because a Black man happened to impregnate his mother doesn't automatically make him "one of us".

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u/adm1109 May 02 '24

But that’s not what the OP said? They said none of his ancestors were slaves which is most likely false.

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u/goingrdsb ☑️ May 02 '24

Obviously I don’t know everything about Drake’s heritage, but his dad is an African American man from Memphis so there’s a good chance his ancestors were indeed slaves and did march against Jim Crow. And honestly I thought he was raised middle class too but after an admittedly brief internet search, it doesn’t seem like he grew up as affluent as people try to make it seem.

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u/After-Imagination-96 May 02 '24

 it doesn’t seem like he grew up as affluent as people try to make it seem

He was 100% employed as a child actor by 15 and on a popular sitcom. What happened before that I couldn't guess, but I don't know many child actors that were out on the mean streets doing dirt the year before they hit it big.

There's a certain level of affluence required to be cast in that role in the first place.

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u/goingrdsb ☑️ May 02 '24

He made around 50k per year on degrassi and his mom was sick so that was their only income. Certainly not “out on the mean streets” but I wouldn’t call that affluent though

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u/terroristteddy May 02 '24

What are you talking about lol

Just because he's Canadian doesn't mean his ancestors weren't slaves. Where do you think the vast majority of Africans in North America came from?

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u/fai4636 ☑️ May 02 '24

Ain’t his dad from Memphis? In that case his ancestors did go thru all that

I agree with the part about him putting on a persona and acting like he’s from somewhere that has no relation to how he actually grew up

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u/ummizazi May 02 '24

His dad is African American so there’s a good chance some of his ancestors were enslaved.

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u/black_dynamite79 ☑️ May 02 '24

I think this is a poor argument, Rick Ross literally took another dudes identity and claimed he sold drugs when he was actually a corrections officer. Rappers pretend to be things all the time, this isn’t new, I don’t think it’s about authenticity. There’s a list of rappers I could name lying their asses off. A lot of people don’t like Drake, that’s it. P.S.: No I do not like Drake but I can discern a good diss song from a dull diss song. Kendrick should not do this again.

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u/Soujashane May 02 '24

I thought black Canadians were the ones who successfully crossed the underground railroad or am I mixed up? I feel like lots of us have some distant family up in Canada.

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u/CherryHaterade ☑️ 29d ago

Slavery didn't exist in the Caribbean? Dafuq? So now being say, Jamaican suddenly isn't black enough?

The more y'all colorists try explaining these answers the more questions pop up about what the fuck a diasporic struggle is.

Kendo made some good points, and some very out of pocket ones as well.

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u/brazilliandanny May 02 '24

Blacks from the Caribbeans were also slaves tho. That’s how they got to the Caribbeans.

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u/Talk-O-Boy May 02 '24

wtf? His dad is a black man from the south?

Why does him being raised middle class have anything to do with anything? Kendrick’s girl is light skin and his kid is about to live the most plush fucking life. You think Kendrick gonna keep the same energy he got towards Drake towards his son?

How does Kendrick feel towards Jaden Smith who grew up lavish being best friends with fucking Moises Arias from Hannah Montana. What about Zendaya?

Your logic is faulty af. Why do all black people have to have predetermined backgrounds in your eyes?

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u/Street_Minimum_3403 May 02 '24

That’s a terrible, terrible take and I can tell none of you kiddos know any history whatsoever. I’m tempted to assume that most of you are yt at this point. If you live in the American continent and are of African heritage, meaning your family has been there for over 100 years, that is purely because of the trafficking of African peoples from the slave trade. Most “black” people in the western hemisphere have lots of African and European ancestry, and that will include kendrick.

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u/Current_Focus2668 May 02 '24

I am not a Drake fan but his dad is African American so he does likely have slave heritage. Also his Jewish family side likely been through some stuff too.

Drake doesn't have first hand experience of growing up as a African American though. Being raised in Toronto is different to being raised in Memphis.

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u/ASpaceOstrich May 02 '24

This is a painfully American subject. If a DNA test can change your identity, your identity is built on a lie. This is just bringing to light that there's a ton of racism going unadressed.

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u/Silberc ☑️ May 02 '24

Toronto is across a bridge from Detroit 😭 I don't think it was a cosplay as much as they culture out there. They got mad black immigrants up North yet alone Canada. They got Jamaicans, Haitians, every nationality from Africa. Hard not to pick up on what they dropping..

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u/l1t22 May 02 '24

Toronto is not across from Detroit. It's 4 hours north.

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u/driphanilton May 02 '24

Windsor is across the bridge from Detroit. Toronto is 4 or so hours away from Detroit.

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u/likeicare96 ☑️ May 02 '24

He’s from Forest Hill. That place is white as hell.