we tend to give people a pass for being black based on situation and context.

We want "passing" people to claim their blackness but not too much.

We ride for Meghan Markle because she gets shit on by the press because she is symbolic and well, racism.

We were feeling it when Carol Channing at the end of her life said "alight ya'll, I'm actually black"

We like it and laugh when Maya Rudolph "blacks it up"

But, then, we have trouble accepting the blackness of others or questioning their blackness or not really openly claiming them even though they say "hey! I am black. I claim it, I am proud of it". People like, Kamala, Obama, Halsey and King.

Obama I should mention is simultaneously embraced and seen as other.