As a Black Jewish man who went to school with Aubrey and shares his experience of never being “black enough” for Black people, I’m just reading this and laughing my ass off. I have so much to say but if I write now I’m just coming from a place of anger.
Y’all are so confused it’s not funny. This article is colorist nonsense. But it’s OK. You will all learn one day. There are generations of hard, grimy work ahead of us. Analyzing rap beefs in 2024 —and tut tutting about who is legitimately Black versus who’s not — is dangerously cognitively dissonant.