OPINION - There's a toxic online debate about being the 'right' kind of mixed-race — and I hate it
A nasty debate has broken out online about how someone’s mixed-race identity is impacted by which of their parents is white. In a post that has now been seen almost seven million times, one anonymous X user compared “mixed-race guys with black mums vs mixed-race guys with white mums”, with pictures of footballer Jude Bellingham looking sharp in a suit (the former) and YouTuber Troopz holding up bags of a substance that looks like marijuana on his sofa (the latter).