There’s a lot of (inadvertent) white supremacist apologism happening within the discourse around Doja. Not being raised amongst Black people does not excuse being a white supremacist. There’s a weird determinism and ironic anti-blackness that is structuring this conversation.

Being abandoned by a Black father, whilst deplorable and potentially devastating, doesn’t mean that someone will inevitably be kiki-ing with white supremacists in chatrooms 18 years later. Are people not seeing the faulty logic that we immediately run into under this premise?

Not only does anti-blackness somehow become the collective fault of Black people under this logic, but it removes any process of accountability by making Doja’s choices and actions a normal reaction and consequence of her *assumed* experiences.

There’s a lot of pathologising, projection and apologism happening in service of, even indirectly, extending grace to a light skinned woman who has used her positionality to amass economic and cultural capital via Blackness, all the while trafficking in anti-blackness for giggles

A grace that would never be extended if her light skinnedness, body type and the brand she’s been able to build, in part, from these facets weren’t power social markers in the first place.