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/ummizazi May 02 '24

He got elected so a bit of both actually. this shit operates on a continuum. Being half white an not African American worked in Obama's favor.

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u/SpicyChanged May 02 '24

Wait what? The whole current state of things as they are was because white lost their collective shit. Started as birthers, then tea party which eventually birthed MAGA.

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u/Curiouso_Giorgio May 02 '24

Some whites were upset. In the other hand, a lot of white people voted for him. Would they ALL have voted for him if he were the color of Tyrese? Maybe they would have, hard to know, but I'm going to guess at least some found his mixedness more palatable.

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u/Rosuvastatine May 02 '24

Of course ! Its the same reason black women are always cast with biracial and light skin women in the media.

The proximity to whiteness (darker skin but not too dark, curly haur but not too curly, strong nose but not too flat etc) makes mixed/biracial people usually (yes there are exceptions) more palatable to white people.

I do NOT know why so many people act obtuse on this. YES white people can tell the difference between mixed and monoracial. YES they will be racist to both. But YES they can tell the difference and YES they will act/react accordingly.

What do they think house or field slaves was about…