Being Black on the Internet is Profitable

[@niablee]

“Being Black” is profitable for everybody BUT Black people

[@lyrablack8621]

This

[@BrandiSB95]

Even AI

[@newworldlord643]

Literally, and im passed out tired ova it

[@danifranc7011]

Say it again

[@ebangoosa]

....And, that's on Shaun King!!!

[@AdeolaAsh]

Being Black is profitable when you’re a man or an ambiguous or light skinned woman. Otherwise it’s very hard to make it as a Black creator online

[@neosoulsofree883]

This part!

[@Daydreamroses]

Accuracy

[@Crissy991]

Yeah I knew it. Say your jealous with out saying it. stop blaming light skin people for everything

[@neosoulsofree883]

@@Crissy991 NOBODY BLAMED LIGHTSKIN PPL CALM DOWN LITTLE GIRL LOL 😆 SHE JUST STATED FACTS! NOTHING IN HER POST SAID OMG I HATE LIGHTSKIN PPL PLS ! IF U DIDN'T THINK IT WAS TRUE WHY DID U EVEN STOP TO RESPOND LOL

[@Crissy991]

@@neosoulsofree883 I know what she said so you wasted your time writing that I didn't bother to read it anyway. If anyone need to put a lid on it It's you kiddo. 😂 you all out of sorts cause what I said it true your ignorant self mad as I type. 😂 That's all dark skin girls do is blame lighter skin for what ever always mad b*tching and complaining because they get type 4 hair and dark skin what ever it is it is. I seen it all my life as tho it's the fault of the lightskin person. She didn't have to come right out and say it dummy you can see post. now STFU and stay out of adult business. I said What TF I said. Say mad bitter and pressed 😂 Good day

[@ajm935]

Such an important message. It's so weird how everyone who fought to not be black before are trying to gatekeep what blackness IS now... AND THEY ARE STILL BENEFITTING FROM THEIR PHENOTYPE BECAUSE THEY ARE ALWAYS GIVEN GRACE BY PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY LOOK BLACK... 👀 Also I love your hair!! ❤

[@judithpriestess7781]

But, who allowed them the access? If Blackness was historically gatekept, protected, and valued, by Black people- Black males, specifically- we wouldn't be complaining about this.

[@sonnid.7122]

Boom!

[@liastorm795]

This the one👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@mimi-rk2qu]

In America, white MEN created generations of biracial and mixed race “Black” people. Both my parents are biracial as were their parents. We were all ODR regardless of skin and hair. Our particular mixed look has endured down to our children. As to African and Black men marrying out, so do BW so l don’t see the problem.

[@theklr]

You can’t gatekeep something you never created. Blackness is only due to erasure of identity. This is another tool used in white supremacy to believe that there’s something not already being protected yet still stolen.

[@ebangoosa]

This ain't it look to the white supremacy frame of mind bruv

[@MakaykayLAMB]

Lost a “friend” over this because she’s mixed and wants to identify as solely black now (she has green eyes and opaque skin but ok) she was saying how when she tells other black girls they deny her and i explained why that may happen. She got so upset that we haven’t spoken in months and i dont think we ever will again. Just glad people are making content like this.

[@liastorm795]

It’s the delusion at this point😂 Ma’am if you don’t have TWO, 2, DOS blacks parents than your biracial or ambiguous🤷🏽‍♀️

[@mimi-rk2qu]

Stop being jealous of mixed race people of color. That girl is identifying as Black because the white government has affirmed it and y’all know that. If you don’t know it then you should learn something about American history. Some of the greatest achievements in America by Black people were from biracial and mixed race people. Surely you’ve heard of Lena Horne, Charles Drew, Adam Clayton Powell, Thurgood Marshall, Eartha Kitt… or perhaps the lady Katherine Johnson whom darker Taranji played? They were all from mixed race backgrounds. We’ve only been 150 years out of slavery. Both my parents are biracial as were their parents. My husband’s side, too. The only people here now who aren’t mixed race are Africans. Most Black Americans who say they’re Blacketty-black black have lightskin parents and grandparents who were under the ODR (one drop rule). 🇺🇸

[@VerdeLane]

People like her are manipulative, entitled, and can be dangerous.

[@aj2thamaxx742]

And you know what’s equally disrespectful…..it’s when we (unambiguous Black folks) call this out, we are labeled as jealous vs the alternative of actually listening to us and doing some self analysis on how one can benefit from being able to obfuscate blackness depending on the situation.

[@Chaka_Davis]

There was a guest on the Stranger Fruit podcast that lodged a similar argument against Meghan Markle. About how specifically harmful it is to have these light-skinned and mixed bodies claim an attachment to Blackness without ever having the full experience (and oftentimes actively avoiding it). It seems odd to me that I'm expected to make space when most of them would never claim Blackness if the coins weren't there

[@liastorm795]

A lot of them use “blackness” as a shield🫠

[@sp123]

​@@liastorm795Megan Markle never identied as black tho, its white supremacy that identifed her and anyone at least 1/30 African heritage as black

[@phdgirl2016]

If folks care about Black people like they claim to, they should have no issue acknowledging and hearing the voices of those who have questions about what their new found self-identification means, and the harm it causes. With such an enduring history of our identity being exploited, its okay for folks to have questions - and even create distance if those questions go unanswered.

[@yendaaaa]

BOOM.

[@MakaykayLAMB]

THIS.

[@ndanacarter3270]

Being Black is profitable for those who don't have to fight for respect as a black woman. It is painful that black people who don't look black are called our black representative. It is offensive....Black Love ❤

[@oxymoron9548]

So true!

[@hazelbasil6451]

Thank you!!

[@itsbritt9155]

Makes me think of ppl like Jena fumes , she fakes being mixed

[@Universityofuncommonsense]

What is she?

[@JT-tx2ns]

Amen joulezy

[@Ophiuchus13AstroTarot]

Where's the lie? 👀

[@Afrobriit]

So true.

[@atumnefer]

We not dismissing jack. And that goes for those who jump on the plastic surgery bandwagon to mimic blackness in all its forms as well.

[@nelsonvazquez8104]

Being black was always profitable

[@ringsofblayze4026]

It is lol I was just having this conversation with my brother.

[@Badbaby72]

Amen!

[@siddakarim]

Correct!

[@Iamcherese]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@theklr]

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@theamazingdoubleA]

We have ourselves to blame when people like Obama and Megan Markle told us and identified as biracial and the BLACK community told THEM they were black…….words have meaning for a reason. Race is a social construct that has implications in every aspect of life and has gone too far to be dismissed or dismantled TODAY.

[@yoyodre]

Except Obama identifies as black. And all versions of black are valid. Race is a social construct and the way you're using it is in ideology the same as the way white supremacists use race to gatekeep whiteness.

[@StephHester]

THIS! This is the comment. People just say anything , no matter how false and without considering the far reaching impplications of their nonsense rhetoric.

[@Ricoque-u2m]

That’s why when a cry racial or lie racial try and get in my face, I say ‘the door is closed!!’ Gatekeeping is necessary.

[@cmg25]

My thoughts about AI are getting in the way of my thoughts about race, ethnicity, culture, and borders. Is integrity programmable? When everyone is beige what will matter?

[@jinmushui1soul]

I'm not sure everyone will be beige; that sort of post-racial framework ignores the way global capitalism continues to enclose and confine black peoples even within the imperial core.

[@mimi-rk2qu]

@@jinmushui1soul …then you’re unaware of the large numbers of interracial marriages! 🤔

[@cmg25]

@@jinmushui1soul True. It was more the sci-fi esque future sentiment than the feasibility within our century. We all know that as we move towards any kind of sameness or unity, the urge to differentiate and oppress will be alive and well.

[@cmg25]

@@mimi-rk2qu In our lifetime, biracial people will continue to be saddled with choosing one identity over the other for whatever systemic reasons. See: Meghan Markle

[@TheRayvolution]

Hold one…wait… huh?! #FoH

[@SunshineKK99]

You are on the money sis! Yes, she was wrong for making the 911 call but damn im sure she didn't know that her story would go viral like this. Remember she is only 25 yo, who tf was so mature, focused and put together at 25? Who didn't make stupid decisions at 25? It feels like a witch hunt now to me that everyone wants her punished. Where is the grace?

[@jouelzy]

I think you meant to comment on my most recent video. Idk how this ended up being posted on the Short.

[@marciabernard3820]

R u talking about yourself?

[@xLeo-ee4gc]

Whole lot of nothing.

[@tselisonkuebe9116]

Then stop leading with your being black. Consider leading with being a young woman of you want a different outcome.

[@thetannaree]

What video are you even commenting on - you didn’t get ANY of it…

[@lisajohnson9612]

Tseliso Akuebe, I’m honestly curious what you meant by this. I don’t know any black content creator who leads off their content by announcing that they are black or a woman. Usually it goes without saying.

[@Ripplerimmel]

It’s so interesting how this same conversation is coming up in pop culture right now with the whole Kendrick and Drake beef. At some point I’d love to hear your take on it if you cared to share of course. 🩵