#family matters

[shirtlesssammy]

Dean and Cas every day not often enough -- 26/?

Supernatural 6x07//Family Matters

[kcyars99]

It’s everywhere even in Drake hometown

[slabmangrave]

Dark Urkel Tribute Tribute

[animusrox]

[90's Sitcoms]

[texaschainsawmascara]

[ytcomments-archive]

[sike-you-thought]

"Macklemore won the beef"

Can the white folks go back inside.

it's giving "silly black people don't talk about things that matter. See that white guy tho? That guy made a song that has almost nothing to do with the beef so his song is actually🤓 culturally relevant and worth the listens."

Please tell me more about how shitty and irrelevant and unimportant black music and black artists are to you

It's giving racist. It's giving anti-black. It's giving virtue signaling.

Go away frfr, y'all can't even discuss music without sounding like you have a white hood in your closet. Don't come back til you can be normal about Black people

[akonoadham]

Uncle Phil & Uncle Carl

[thechanelmuse]

Kendrick, Drake, and Ethnic/Cultural Identity

One of the most discussed topics during this exchange between the two is if Drake is a culture vulture. In short, yes. He's always been. It boils down to inherited cultural identity and respected history, not the upholding of a social construct of “race.” 

Race is a goofy non-biological caste system that operates in various countries and it’s a dumbass global push to get people to embrace a superior to inferior hierarchy in classifying the globe into 5 broad groups solely based on perceived skull sizes, hues of skin color, and perceived traits and phenotypic features via the teachings of François Bernier, Johann Blumenbach, Carl Linnaeus, and them other hoes. Get race tf outta here.

I’m gonna make this concise as possible, but fleshed out a bit for full understanding.

Kendrick Lamar is Black American on both sides with his roots most likely coming out of Mississippi and/or Alabama to Chicago to Cali by way of the Great Migration. (He may even descend from Duckworths from Louisiana). I haven’t done his genealogy, but now I may out of curiosity.

Black American is a double ethnicity. We’re citizens of America (nationality = US Citizen), and our ethnic group (Black) was created & descends from this land (ethnicity = American) through ethnogensis. It has nothing to do with one’s brown skin color or how the cops see us 🙃, but everything to do with the lineage of one’s parents and their parents, etc. (For info on lineage tracing, refer to my post here.) 

Black Americans are an ethnic group (the largest from this land and largest in this country after Germans), while “white Americans” are a self-identification race to remove ethnic identity and conflate numbers. I can break this down further in another post if y’all want since American history is complex and will explain why Black Americans have been reclassified seven times by the US government 🙃. 

Now.

Culture is largely passed down through your mother, and her mother, and her mother, and so forth for Black Americans (and I’m sure other ethnic groups). No matter if it’s a two-parent or single-parent household, she’s your ultimate teacher in setting the foundation of your cultural upbringing. It’s the same if one is raised by their grandparents. It largely stems from the grandmother. If one’s father is their main parent, that’s a different case of course. 

Drake falls in line with this as someone from a single-parent household. He is half Ashkenazi of Latvian and Russian descent (ethnicity) through his mother and of half Black American descent (ethnicity) through his father. He is a dual citizen of Canada and America (nationality), who was raised in Canada with his Ashkenazi Jewish mother and Ashkenazi relatives with an Ashkenazi upbringing. He went to a Jewish day school and was engulfed in all aspects at home. 

Kendrick is ethnically and culturally Black American. Drake is ethnically and culturally Ashkenazi. He is also ethnically Black American (through lineage), but not culturally Black American. Does that make Drake a culture vulture? No. He just didn’t have the cultural upbringing but could always immerse himself in learning, appreciating, and respecting the other half of his history and culture.

What makes him one is how he operates as an outsider. He participates in an aspect of Black American culture (Hip-Hop) for his monetary gain, adopts a manufactured image for his perception of believability, and disrespects the people of this culture. “…run to America to imitate culture.” It’s like a jacket to him. He takes it off to try on another (like a Jamaican accent) and swaps for another, etc. 

A few examples that’s been touched on: He blackened his face to depict blackface while wearing a Jim Crow t-shirt… That’s specific disrespect towards Black Americans, mocking our history and our ancestors. “Whipped and chained you like American slaves.” That’s specific disrespect towards Black Americans, mocking our history and our ancestors. “[You] always rappin' like you 'bout to get the slaves freed.” Do I even need to explain this? Hopefully it’s understood.

The muthafucka is not like us.

[alderaan-babe]

I’ve only found out about this whole mess in the last 24hrs but damn if it ain’t the entertainment and drama I need during finals lmao

[shirtlesssammy]

Castiel every day so often -- 29/139

Supernatural 6x07//Family Matters

[kcyars99]

Why is he acting like Drake didn’t start this by making things personal when he brought up Kendrick’s family??? It’s so annoying the way they coddle Drake. Like the dick eating is outta control

[inkyray]

how i been lookin at life the past few days being a kendrick meat rider and a drake hater

[literatureaesthetic]

kendrick lamar may have just ended a man's whole career, i fear

[texaschainsawmascara]

[vintagegeekculture]

In a sequel to the episode where Steve Urkel's ventriloquist dummy, Stevil, came to life, there was a follow up episode where Steve's neighbor, Carl, also acquired an evil ventriloquist dummy, known as Carlsbad.