we've all been there, two shots and a beer deep at some rank rinky dink bar in bushwick when you overhear someone saying something about how alexis bledel is mexican. the trickery! the hoodwinkledom, oh how many nights 12 year old me stayed up picking my brain, wondering what wentworth miller's ethnicity is, well worry not girls, i've cracked the case, worked my fingers to the bone to get us closer to the truth, i bring to you the pop gworls who you thought were black but are actually white!
Rita Ora
pls put some respect on ms rita's name, the hardest working womyn in show business, delivering hits, hosting shows, delivering fashions without ever resorting to showing titty, and even if she did you wouldnt find a brown nip, no maam, because as much as she tried to copy every word every inch from queen of avon rhiannon, shes not black
real ethnicity: albanian
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P!nk
ok so the girls sign a record deal & perhaps a record exec suggests the sullying up of their racial identity to boost record sales, to reach a wider market, and miss alicia did exactly that, i mean, my dad whos been black for going on 54 years thought ms good sis was black, she really had us w that close crop kitty cat haircut, bitch! but alas, all pop girls black eras must come to end ;-\ and now shes australian and serving up pat benetar-esque soccer mom bops, check please! halsey betta thank ha
real ethnicity: as white as the summer's day is long
Nicole Richie
how tf were we supposed to know she wasnt black? her dad is lionel richie aka the cheetos cat. it was a great moment seeing a POC of color act a lily white mess like the aryans get to, popping tags on robertson boulevard, behind the dj booth at the viper room, making bank on network tv, re-recording a 98 degree demo and making it the longest running #1 hit in billboard history (see below) she was a fashion darling, our jennerations carol channing, the preeminent starlet, the protoype, but .. not black
real ethnicity: mexican
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Jamiroquai (Jay Kay)
this one hurts, there's a lot of POC that POC don't want, and a lot of whites claiming us but at the last POC meeting we all agreed we'd like to claim miss jay kay. was it the hats? miss never got on tv and spoke patois like bad gyal chet, never served up vocal blackface like iggy, his wife is white, so was it that made all of us think he was black?
real ethnicity: white
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Carly Rae Jepsen
now somebody don told me wrong on this here day. i can remember it like yesterday, it was 2010, 4am, i just left pacha, was in the mcdonalds in times square, i orderd my mcflurry, a baby was screaming, a woman was yelling, crackhead chaos was afoot, and like everything stopped and over the speakers i heard .. a black voice, the song was 'call me maybe', the rest is herstory, forgive me for thinking that these powerhouse, tour de force 34 octave aretha-like vocals and ella fitzgerald lyrics came from a black woman, i heard strength, depth, vitality, layers, decades of ancestral experience coming through my speakers, and then i saw her picture and she was white, but canadian which is basically like being black, and thats when i chose to stan the immesurable miss carly rae jepsen-knowles-carter
real ethnicity: black
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ontd, whats your favorite song made by a black person?
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