"They wait for you to achieve success before they give you the black standard. That’s the upgrade. Before then, they say you’re mixed. You achieve success and you get upgraded to black. And all the famous mixed people do it. Before, they all were mixed. … All those singers — Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey — they go, oh, you know, mixed, and then they become famous, they go, black singers. Tiger Woods is a black golfer although he’s mixed. He doesn’t even refer to himself as black, you know?"

- South African comedian Trevor Noah on Talk of the Nation (via npr)
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