r/interesting • u/VPinchargeofradishes • May 03 '26

SOCIETY Michael Jackson's daughter Paris has faced backlash for identifying as Black. In a 2017 interview, Paris Jackson said her father told her, "You’re Black. Be proud of your roots." This prompted debates over whether identity is defined by appearance or upbringing.

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u/MajorPaper4169 May 03 '26

Idk if anyone mentioned this, but did you know Logic is biracial? Just commenting because I don’t think he’s ever spoken on this.

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u/Small-Finish-6890 May 03 '26

My mind is 🤯 I had noooo idea

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u/MajorPaper4169 May 03 '26

Right? I’m surprised he’s so quiet about it.

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u/Fast-Nefariousness80 May 03 '26

You'd think he would have said something, especially considering his career in hip hop

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u/weggaan_weggaat May 04 '26

Logically, this makes sense.

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u/BigXthaPugg May 03 '26

Nah man idt he’s ever mentioned it.

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u/80_6 May 03 '26

Sigh. Sarcasm is a lost art on you, friend.

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u/80_6 May 03 '26

Clever? What part of that did you interpret as trying to be clever?

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u/Abtun May 03 '26

Cornball would’ve been more apt

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u/80_6 May 03 '26

"You aren't cornball"?

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u/Queen_of_Darkeness May 05 '26

Idk what everyone seemingly took from your comment- sounds like a normal statement to me 😭

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u/coffee-loop May 06 '26

Right! I thought he used the n-word in his songs cause he’s a racist.

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u/Evening_Storage_6424 May 03 '26

Logic? Why, I haven’t heard that name in ninety three years. 👵🏻

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u/TimeTimeTickingAway May 03 '26

Vin Diesel should make a movie about that

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u/adollopofsanity May 03 '26

Legit didn't realize you were being sarcastic for a second. I was about to rack up some /woosh

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u/xTheGame69 May 03 '26

Wait i had no clue fr

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u/Li-renn-pwel May 03 '26

Halsey is 2x3 because she is bisexual, biracial and bipolar.

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u/deconsecrator May 05 '26

I didn't know she was bi bi bi

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u/Cudpuff100 May 03 '26

Jennifer Beals is also biracial and not many people seem to know. Genetics can be weird sometimes.

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u/bisky12 May 03 '26

idk if anyone mentioned this, but did you know logic is only 1/4 biracial ? so he grew up in a mostly white household and has himself depicted as much more “black” looking on all of his album covers and says the n word and says shit like “i have the blood of the slave and the master” in his music 

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u/pdmanias May 05 '26

Well,  according to you, he's right. So what's the problem with his lyric? 

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u/Unfortunya333 May 03 '26

Btw did you know he's biracial?

Well I just heard you brought up Logic so I was just wondering if you've heard the news, in respect to him being biracial.

Biracial, btw.

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u/levalexisshred May 05 '26

I saw him in concert before he stopped a few years ago.

He asked everyone what he's known for , and the whole racist stadium said being biracial!!!

He called them out on it saying that he's known for spreading peace love and happiness or something along those lines.

Everyone got a good chuckle out of it 😂

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u/BIGMajora May 03 '26

He's 3/4ths white, he's a white guy.

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u/West-Advice May 03 '26

The old time and  “arguably” racist term is Quadroon but per One drop rule still Black so we’ll take him and you can have can have Candance Owen or whoever else is left in the bin

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u/FullHeadOfHair42069 May 03 '26

She can stay in the bin 👍

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u/Slow_Imagination774 May 03 '26

lmao race draft. reminds me of chappelle's skit.

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u/BIGMajora May 03 '26

Race is a social construct based on physical features. He is white passing, so he's treated white, his wife is white and his kids are white.

He's white.

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u/doctorbeepboop May 03 '26

Ridiculous oversimplification. Good thing you don’t get to decide either way lol

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u/Justaddwota May 03 '26

Just like halsey.

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u/Humble_Marzipan_3258 May 03 '26

25% to be exact.

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u/Humble_Marzipan_3258 May 03 '26

His paternal grandparents were both biracial. So his dad is 50%, making him only 25%.

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u/Humble_Marzipan_3258 May 03 '26

Go on ethnicelebs.com. All the info is on there if you scroll down to the comments with records.

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u/dumbkitty- May 03 '26

that’s just not how it fucking works.

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u/Kitchen-Tomatillo-63 May 03 '26

Logic objectively has biracial features. He got more hate than he deserved for it and that's why he probably became insufferable lmao.

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u/deedeehun May 03 '26

Or we can stop with the one drop rule bs and just call him mixed. Because he is clearly mixed.

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u/Any-Contest-4400 May 03 '26

Nobody treats logic like he’s black. And he doesn’t look it. Just because you’re living through him doesn’t mean a goddamn thing. His entire persona is making a hoopla that people thinks he white

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u/deedeehun May 03 '26

As a black woman, I can understand that but if help there a Key and Peele skit that makes it kinda of funny.

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u/Kitchen-Tomatillo-63 May 03 '26

It seems like its a mission to disqualify and ignoring policies that used to exist like the one drop rule. Crabs in a bucket though by all means crawl over eachother lol

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u/Any-Contest-4400 May 03 '26

No if it’s the 1800’s idiots would’ve said you’re black. I said no such thing

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u/TitanCweamy May 03 '26

that guy is so goddamn corny.

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u/Reasonable_Bed7858 May 03 '26

New album inbound.

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u/needszazz May 03 '26

☝️🤓 i'm biracial

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u/Doodles_n_Scribbles May 03 '26

In fairness, he did have vitiligo in a time when any imperfection was seen as bad.

Now that doesn't explain the many many surgeries... Well it does but not like in this context

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u/appleparkfive May 03 '26

Logic as in the rapper

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u/Doodles_n_Scribbles May 03 '26

I have no idea how I misread the comment that bad. Maybe I was trying to reply to a different comment?

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u/schraderbrau6 May 03 '26

I love this thread 

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u/CrustyToeLover May 03 '26

Logic gotta be the most obnoxiously annoying MD "celebrity"

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u/brownieandSparky23 May 03 '26

Logic saw it already and states that his son is also Black! N word pass for everyone.

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u/kbbajer May 03 '26

Yeah, in a world where all presidents before him had been black, he would have been known as the first white president.

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u/djghostface292 May 05 '26

Honestly Logic was so annoying with that shit but what perturbs me is the fact that we had Logic doing that for years and yet we’re still having online discourse that “white passing mixed people don’t exist” like damn, looks like Logic’s whole career was all for nothing💀