Janet is a pretty liberal black woman - made her appearance back on RuPaul’s drag race back in like Season 3 or something, which I believe was before The Straights were head over heels into it.

I think she’s actually voicing something that elements of the black community have felt for a long time: there are people getting credit for blackness without being authentically black, which is why wealthy African transplants to the US without real authentic African American roots are sometimes also treated like a sort of outsider (and vice versa).

I do not think it’s so different from working class white people criticizing weatlhy white people who pose as working class…

It’s actually quite in line with a lot of Critical Theory: race is a social construct, and thus things like Whiteness and Blackness are defined by the lived realities and the perceptions of all manner of people.

If this was the year 2009 and we were talking about a half-Jamaican, half-Indian district attorney in San Francisco whose father and mother were both academics and who grew up in Canada attending a private school and black people were criticizing her for capitalizing off of her bloodline but not being authentically black, there would be zero controversy here.

The problem is that a black woman is criticizing a candidate who is half black by blood and needs the black vote for the liberal party in a Presidential election… But if she was for the Conservative party? This observation about her would be all anyone talkeda bout on the left.