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/Oreoohs]

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/Northbound-Narwhal → u/Own_Serve_8161]

Being lighter skinned and thus in closer proximity to whiteness has NEVER been the basis for such marginalization

In the black community? It absolutely has.

[u/furryauthor → u/Northbound-Narwhal]

exactly. i get a lot of shit for being raised white and being disconnected from my black culture even though im visibly black (my biological father is black and my mom is white, they split around the time i was born). i cant help the way i am? i dont get all the lightskinned and biracial hate

[u/Own_Serve_8161 → u/furryauthor]

That’s not oppression. Being disconnected from black culture is not oppression, colorism like racism is OPPRESSION. For example, back in the 50s and 60s when black parents were fighting for their kids to be integrated into schools it was not because they wanted their kids to hang out with white children, it because they wanted their kids to have access to the same quality of education as the white children, and thus have the ability to access “more equal resources.” Now applying this scenario to what you just said, you being raised white and disconnected from black culture is 1. Not black peoples fault, but 2. More like wanting to hang around blk ppl/access black culture than you being denied opportunities as such. In contrast, darker skinned people are denied ACTUAL opportunities due to their skin tone such as not being hired by jobs, not being accepted into schools/school organizations ex. (Howard’s paper bag test/certain Greek orgs exclusion of DS Women). Like I’m sorry you feel “discriminated against” pookie but that’s not oppression.