Michael Eric Dyson defends Drake against attacks on his blackness and colorism accusations

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Alright... he's wrong.
Drake becomes the avatar and symbol for anti-blackness or whateva because he was not raised in the house of the blackness being argued in Not Like Us despite blood relation. He was raised by white Jewish women in a city taking in a cultural import he cannot legitimately claim surrounded by other cultural and ethnic differences. Drake is an illegitimate child of the culture, his rebellion against it sent the message he's... Not Like Us.

Flattening blackness does not negate cultural-ethnic markers within the diaspora.
MED can't talk numbers without the development of those numbers after the fact.
People have families, develop communities and those numbers shrink or grow but in the meantime culture develops.
Drake did not exist in the locale of the ethnic group that developed and solidified the culture he's partaking in even if he is part of it by blood.
He's Canadian, and absorbed more from a Canadian black experience than an American one.

He's Not Like Us, and that was okay until he got disrespectful. Kamala is a similar case.

Goodnight.
 

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Alright... he's wrong.
Drake becomes the avatar and symbol for anti-blackness or whateva because he was not raised in the house of the blackness being argued in Not Like Us despite blood relation. He was raised by white Jewish women in a city '
This is untrue because you dont know drake’s back story.

His dad was in his life until his parents split and he spent his summers and holidays in the american south.
taking in a cultural import he cannot legitimately claim surrounded by other cultural and ethnic differences. Drake is an illegitimate child of the culture, his rebellion against it sent the message he's... Not Like Us.
What did drake rebel against?

Is Ebro or J Cole “of the culture?”
Flattening blackness does not negate cultural-ethnic markers within the diaspora.
So be specific.
MED can't talk numbers without the development of those numbers after the fact.
People have families, develop communities and those numbers shrink or grow but in the meantime culture develops.
Empty pablum
Drake did not exist in the locale of the ethnic group that developed and solidified the culture he's partaking in even if he is part of it by blood.
This is literally untrue. All his friends are black and he grew up in black communities and spaces. In fact, before he got on that TV show dude grew up in basically the hood.
He's Canadian, and absorbed more from a Canadian black experience than an American one.
So?
He's Not Like Us, and that was okay until he got disrespectful. Kamala is a similar case.

Goodnight.
You’re not even like yourself, by this metric.
 

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And Snipes been fukking up these :flabbynsick: lite brights for decades. nikka ain't been relevant for a generation and these nikkas still ain't recover. Midnight boys stay in some ppls head rent free....no wonder cacs have hated use for nearly half a millennia.
Snipes took Dyson's chick? :wtf: What Snipes do? :wtf:
 
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the collective dualities embodied by cultural mesmerization of the drake phenomenon is undergirded by the historical potentialities that lighter skin confers upon the marginalized brothers and sisters of the black community.

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Dyson is pretty much saying anyone can be Black. And this is how we always lose. Letting anyone come and leach off us. Steal all of our resources and talents. And take them back to their community. We're so easily duped. We're to accepting. Bill Clinton plays a saxophone and we call him the first Black president. It's embarrassing how easy we get played. Democrat been playing us so long, they don't even promise us anything.

Even other interest groups trampoline off our struggles, like gays and feminist. Now struggles is damn near is at the bottom of the totem.
 

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Drake's father is Larry Graham's younger brother. He is clearly Black and an African American.
 
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