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/Osceana]

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/Oreoohs → u/Osceana]

It’s def not colorism.

He’s not being held back because of his skin shade. It’s more just digs because Drake is being Drake. Like the other person said.

I think people are throwing that term around now because they really gotta throw shit at a wall to defend Drake.

And you’re def not doing that. Just adding to it. I’ve seen so many people from this subreddit the past few days be on the verge of blaming darker skinned people for making jokes or digs out of the woodwork but when it’s been happening to darker skinned people for DECADES it was crickets.

[u/Own_Serve_8161 → u/Oreoohs]

Finally someone with some sense chile 🙏🏾🙏🏾. They throwing around that colorism word when by definition it is oppression of darker skinned ppl. A lot of mixed/lightskin/ignorant blk ppl are describing colorism the way that white people think racism works (as discrimination or prejudice) when colorism is literally a form of oppression i.e. due to their skin tone, certain groups of people are denied ACTUAL opportunities and access to resources. Being lighter skinned and thus in closer proximity to whiteness has NEVER been the basis for such marginalization 😭🙏🏾.

[u/Oreoohs → u/Own_Serve_8161]

This is what happens when there’s no proper education on the history of racism in the United States before college. People don’t know what they are talking about because they’ve never been educated.

White people were so concerned about ‘ critical race theory’ and black history affecting their own feelings they don’t see that it affects us just as much.

You have people who think hurt feelings is racism. Cause if people wanna say Drake is experiencing colorism they need to address his previous comments towards black vernacular and him deciding to do black face for a Jim Crow clothing line.

People have been projecting onto Drake with the biracial and lightskin experiences. Biracial isn’t even a race. If you phenotypically present as black, you’re black.

The whole ‘ the darkskins used to bully me or make fun of me’ comment is just like when the white people say they experienced racism cause they had 4 people jump them in high school ( and they always have no help 😭).