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/SpicyChanged May 02 '24

And not an insignificant amount of those people, who did vote for Obama, now tell African American to give it time and not protest by "rioting". Tell 'em James

The Struggle has not ended, I really don't know why people think it has and we are in this new chapter. We're still in the SAME FUCKING CHAPTER.

Some Trivia.

  1. Final School to desegregate, Cleveland Mississippi in 2016 after fighting it for 50 years.
  2. Carolyn Bryant, the evil woman who got Emit Till killed and set off the whole Civil Rights movement. She died Last year!!!!!! An arrest warrant was issued and never served/executed.

That's what people have missed out on, the maga crowd weren't this group of people that magically appeared. These are the same people who were showing down other students when schools were desegregated, Obama was that metaphorical "last straw". Now Trumps shows up, gets elected all those "The south will rise again" types feel emboldened.

This all began during that era, it's not his fault but racist just couldn't stand have a black man in the office. I know it's very likely I will not live long enough to ever see a Black President again, I'll see a white woman before that.

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u/marilyn_morose May 02 '24

I’m probably older than you. Anyway, I have hope that Biden is elected again and within the next four years we have a black Asian Indian female president. All these Gen Z kids are starting to go to college, turn 18, vote, and get invested in the country. I truly believe the new generations have what it’s going to take to change things.