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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
As someone who's lived in mixed race neighborhoods and mixed race musical endeavors of all kinds, it's a real thing.
Light skinned POC often feel really ostracized as they're not 'black enough' and yet they're not white and white people basically treat any non-whites as less than.
Not always on either count, and intelligent people of every color don't do that as much, but it's a real and palpable thing when you're around it.
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It's been a thing for a long time, too. Langston Hughes (who was bi-racial, he had a white Mom and a Black father) wrote about it a lot in his poetry and short stories. Hughes was rejected from so many opportunities due to Jim Crow and growing up in the early 1900's nadir period of race-relations (and even got expelled for protesting segregated seating in his Lawrence middle school) and then when he was able to be present at his dream ceremony in West Africa later in life, he was barred entry, due to being "white."
Barack Obama (love him or hate him) talked about this issue a lot in
Dreams of My Father and how he had to "find his own blackness" in Chicago after growing up in Hawaii and Indonesia.
Sadly, I do think we'll see Patrick get hit with those takes too every now and again. It wasn't long ago that RGIII was being hit with takes like that (and RGIII grew up in a straight up working class family). It's been cool to see that DeShaun Watson doesn't seem to subscribe to that mindset over Mahomes at all (wish he could find a way out of being around BOB).