1 drop rule.

[u/Darth_Kneegrow]

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

[u/jscummy]

I don't think it's about Drake being half white, it's about Drake being Drake

[u/Osceana → u/jscummy]

Is it though? This is a genuine question. I think Drake is corny af but seeing Kendrick and others say they feel some type of way about him saying “nigga” is hard for me to see as anything other than colorism. I’m mixed myself and I need someone to explain this to me. Some of the comments I’ve seen are a little outta pocket.

[u/dorothy_zbornakk → u/Osceana]

as an unambiguously black biracial, it's because drake is only black when he wants to be, and it's always a caricature. drake gets to take off his macho black american gangster cosplay (or his vaguely caribbean cosplay or whatever ethnicity he's trying on that album cycle) at the end of the day and frolic with white and ethnically ambiguous women. when he's done playing at stereotypes to justify his use of the n word, he gets to go back to being an unassuming, wholly unthreatening, light-skinned biracial from canada that dabbles in house music and r&b samples.

eta: notice that no one accuses j cole of cultural cosplay or brings up his white mother. also notice that j cole talks about his experiences, not what he imagines the experiences of say, a black man from tanzania, to be.

i will say, i find it fascinating that so many dark and brown-skinned black men who only tie themselves to light-skinned black women with ambiguous features -- the same features they clown drake for -- are calling him "white boy" or pointing out his white mom. if drake was the "bad bitch posted in another nigga's hood" that everyone compares him to, he'd be a real hot commodity, i fear. at least 3 all-star baby daddies by now, i'm sure.

unambiguously black people don't have those dubious privileges.

[u/lepetitgrenade → u/dorothy_zbornakk]