Waka Flocka Stands By Controversial Remarks: “I’m Not Black”

    Waka Flocka is not backing down from his claim that he’s not black. After making the controversial statement during an interview with Sway Calloway, the Atlanta rapper doubled down on his assertion in the face of criticism.

    “Instead of judging me ask yourselves why,” Waka wrote on Instagram Saturday (October 14). “Why Waka ghetto ass talking like this. Why Waka saying all this woke shit. Why Trump not… Why the media ignore real issues. Why we support xyz. We all have to fix ourselves to see the real problems #HaveABlessedOne.”

    The post was accompanied by a video in which Waka said, “I’m black,” but did so while gesturing with quotation marks. The Flockavelli rapper stated he was not the black that America calls him in the clip and stood by his words in the lengthy write-up accompanying it.

    “I wish Dick Gregory was alive,” he continued. “All I want is for US to do is THINK. tradition is truth!!!! As a human we could never like this thing we don’t understand. I talk from experience. I been around the [world] and my community ain’t the only ones struggling we just the focus. I stand on my words IM NOT BLACK.”

    In Waka’s original statement, he claimed to have no African ancestry. He identified his family’s background as Native American, European, Italian and Dominican.

    “I’m not African American at all,” he said around five-minute mark of the interview. “My folks is not from Africa. A lot of people in this room’s folks ain’t from Africa. Might be a couple, but people just don’t understand. I asked my grandma, ‘Yo grandma, what’s your background?’ She said ‘Red foot and black tail Indian.’ I said, ‘What?’ She said, ‘Yeah.’ My mother and my father, we 100 percent Indians.’ I asked my other grandmother, and we got Cherokee in us, and European and Italian. A little Dominican.”

    While it may have seemed like Waka was battling over the semantics of being identified as African American, he later made it abundantly clear that he believes he’s not black.

    “I’m damn sure not black,” he said. “You’re not gonna call me black.”

    Watch Waka’s interview with Sway and check out his follow-up statement above.

    65 thoughts on “Waka Flocka Stands By Controversial Remarks: “I’m Not Black”

    1. ??‍♂️??‍♂️??‍♂️ ALL, human life originated in Africa. It’s time black folk started holding other black folks accountable for the moves they make. White folks, WACK-A Flocka is yours.

      1. Greg Jefferys’ comments: “The whole ‘Out of Africa’ myth has its roots in the mainstream academic campaign in the 1990’s to remove the concept of Race. When I did my degree they all spent a lot of time on the ‘Out of Africa’ thing but it’s been completely disproved by genetics. Mainstream still hold on to it.”

    2. WHO’S the original?
      WHO’S the grafted criminal?
      WHO crafted trick knowledge to attack the subliminal?
      –RZA

    3. I can believe that. We folks considered as African don’t even know our ancestral background, we just take the label given to us because of our skin tone. And that’s not to say that being African is shameful, either! Make sure I iterate that!

    4. I apologise for my son’s behavior. Lately he’s been dressing up as Hit.ler and it’s worrying me about how he’s been threatening to shoot up a syna.gogue. In reality his name is Mark and he’s 25 and living in my basement.

    5. Ayo what’s up HHDX? This is the original Son Of Yehuda representing our tribe. Lately I’ve been hearing some anti-Sem1t!c shiyt talking from some keyboard warrior called jordan face, though intel tells me his real name is Mark and that he’s a 28 year old man living in his parents’ basement and suffers from unemployment and unhealthy Neo-N4z1 fantasies.

      Kahane Lansky here is going to be the M0ssad of HHDX and hunt this Amalekite fool down and usher a new age of comments without all this anti-Sem!t!c hatred/Judah bashing.

      Lansky signing out.

      P.S.: Wu Tang is for the children.

    6. I partially get what Wake means even if the way he express it doesn’t make any sense. Black people in USA loves to call themselves African American but only few of them know from which country their family came from and only few can name more than 3 African countries.

      1. Most people don’t know exactly where their origins begin. MOST. He is still a black man. If you put an African Lion in an Italian zoo, guess what? It’s still African! No matter how many generations removed, his people originate in Africa. He IS a black man.

        1. Homie,

          To me, saying he is “black” is just putting him in a category, which is how oppression comes about IMO. But hey, it’s okay to say you’re “black” but just know that it’s much much more complex than that.

        2. This is very ignorant.

          Males and females in this part of the world are all shades of dark and light; similar to the variety of what you folks consider ‘African-American’ over there.

          You should read more.

    7. Before we go to war we have to clean house first! Uncle toms & stupid negroes like flacka need 2 b exterminated! WOW! cant believe the ninja said that shit! A white man must have got him in the butt real good. WOW

    8. Man, people really don’t understand DNA. My family used to talk all this “we’re part this, part that” bullshit too. No records to show, just a bunch of bullshit passed down through the generations. If you want to know, get a test done. Your matriarchal DNA remains unchanged from your mother to your grandmother and all the way back to the beginning to the very first female in your lineage. It goes the same way for men on the Patriarchal side. Point is, it doesn’t matter what you are mixed with, the point of origin has the biggest slice of your DNA. It doesn’t really matter what gets mixed in later. I tested out as 81% African and I’m about as far removed generationally from Africa as anybody. Why? Because that’s where my lineage started for both my mother and father. If Waka doesn’t know for a fact where his lineage began, he’s talking out of his ass.

    9. I understand where he is coming from. He just saying we were already over here and not brought over on slave ships. He just has to understand that the Native Americans were of African decent so technically he still African.

      1. You have any sources on that info? Native Americans are a very large and diverse people, just like the entire CONTINENT of Africa. Your statement is very broad without any real merit. Just asking.

    10. Did so called black people from Africa come up with the out of Africa hypothesis or did pale skin Europeans?

      1. It’s based on scientific research done by people from multiple ethnicities. Humans originated in Africa, facts

    11. Which of you can prove in direct sunlight that there are people with skin the color black or the color white?

    12. A deep ancestry DNA test is less than 0.1% accurate. It’s on video. CBS 60 minutes made Rick Kittles the owner of African ancestry admit this on video. Every generation you go back Everyone grandparents double. 4 grandparents 8 great grandparents then 16 then 32 etc. These test leave out most of your ancestors. This science is not very accurate or respected. Do your research and due diligence.

      1. It doesn’t matter how many ancestors you have or how diverse. Specific elements of DNA do not change. Specifically matriarchal and patriarchal. That is science, not Rick Kittles.

    13. They test your DNA against people that are alive and well today not against true ancestral population samples because they lack the ability to do so. Modern populations are not an accurate representation of ancestral populations because people die, people mix, people migrate, people get displaced, people get reclassified. Your DNA is tested Against who the scientific community thinks is an Egyptian or an American Indian or a Israelite etc in today’s world. Historical records show these people looked nothing like today’s alleged Descendants.

    14. Vet heard of the one drop rule? Even with a drop of African blood in you, you are an African and 12 will say so. Just pretend you white when caught wacka and see

    15. This is a difficult nut to crack. If Africa was the cradle of mankind then all humans have a common African ancestor. Skin color is a result of climatic and regional adaptation. As much as I hate to say this race classification was primarily due to skin hue: white (European, Scandinavian etc any one with pale skin), Yellow (Asian, some Arab), brown (latina, south american) Red (native americas, some Indian) Black (African, and anyone with darker skin) looking at Waka his got a mix of brown, red and black! So his Black nuff said lol!

    16. It’s just like saying Obama and Blake Griffin and Lonzo Ball are black. Wrong! They are all biracial. If you call them black you can just as fairly call them white. So do biracial people only get to say the “n” word half of the time? Obama wasn’t the first black president rather he was the first half-white president. The artist Logic is biracial but would he get away saying the “n” word around a bunch of darker complected black guys….I highly doubt it. Ever seen Blake Griffin drop the “n” word at all around darker skinned brothers??? Nope. There’s a great deal of racism between light skinned and dark skinned black people.

      1. I can tell you’re a white boy, you have NOOOO idea what youre talking about… So now lightskinned black guys are affraid to use the n word around dark skinned black guys? u sound crazy lmao

        1. Your comment lacked any type of argument. Stop being afraid of the truth and learn to debate. You never even mentioned the biracial argument because Obama was a white president.

        2. With a name like Pimpoligy I bet you contribute so many good things to the world. You’re just a criminal who worships money and doesn’t help anyone in need unless your selfish ass gets something out of it. You’re just a criminal and a loser. I bet violence is the only thing you know. Aww, poor child, you are still a kid because you don’t know any better. Poor baby. And no, I’m not only white but black too. That’s what you call biracial you dumbass you. I’ve gotten in a lot of trouble for saying the n-word around dark skinned brothers because I have very light skin, good hair, and green eyes.

    17. He is black but he might not be African is what he should have said. Blacks in American are Hebrews from Israel. Ham is the father of the Africans but not the Negros and american and Caribbean blacks are Hebrews and Negros. We have different DNA.

      1. Wrong, all African people originate from Africa. Ethiopia is the birth place of humanity and civilization. The Bible is by no means an accurate guide on human origins or movements of different ethnic groups

        1. “…[A]ll African people originate from Africa.” ??? This is the best comment yet! Did any of you graduate from high school? I’m not interested in Flocka. I’m relaxing on the couch and stumbled across this article – so I couldn’t less about this guy’s ethnicity. But these comments? You people are MORONS. What he said makes sense. If you all don’t possess the critical thinking skills necessary to understand it, then that is beyond sad – and embarrassing.

    18. Dude just needs attention because he has been replaced by other dumb rappers. That’s all this is about. This is the same dude who showed up on Creflo Dollars tv show

    19. Native Americans have a practice called two spirits look it up. If Blacks want to claim their native American let them. It’s just another form of confusion. There’s no Science in the native American culture that im interested in. Was there even a tribe at a high level of consciousness other than some of the one in south America? I would rather study Yoruba, Medu neter, The Dogon Indus valley Kush than what the natives had. Plus the natives were a mixture of Africans who came over here on ships and Asians that looked like Chinese who possibly traveled here along the Bering strait. Brown + yellow= red. I also heard that the natives are dark skin caucasians. If reparations ever were to happen should Blacks claming to be native American receive them? I can list historical evidence of how native were treated better than Blacks in the past. I guess he won’t be labeled a Black identity extremist.

      1. @ Spirit is the way natives describe homosexulaity, I live on native ladn now as a matter of fact very familar with the term.

    20. I wonder did it ever occur to waka that his grandmother may he an ignoramus lol. Seriously your grandmother may be mis informed or not informed at all about her race. You clearly have some type of African in you my brother. Unless they got a test stating you have no black then maybe. Black people, stop trying to act woke when you are still ignorant as hell. We have a lot of pretenders out here.

    21. Less than 11 percent of Black Americans have lineage tied to Native Americans and the vast majority of those Black Americans have roots in states such as Oklahoma where based on geographic proximity they were more likely to come into contact with Native Americans. Most Blacks did and do not live near Native Americans which makes it almost impossible for Black Americans to make this claim. This has been proven to be a false narrative that many Black Americans co-opted in their self-hate. Furthermore, Italians are Europeans, and Dominicans are African, Indian and European. Basing your identity on what your grand-parents tell you may not be accurate, if he really wanted to know his ancestry with all of his millions of dollars he would take a DNA test which cost less than 100 dollars.

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