When white people found out Frankie Lymon was black

[Malcolmxxx_23]

ugly asf

 

[KidJSoul]

This stupid as hell

They knew he was Black beforehand
The internet so fukking stupid

The majority of the crowd was rocking with him

 

[Nabs]

That's the face all white people make when asked to catch a beat and remain in rhythm for two minutes straight.

All the reactions are hilarious. Look at 2:20-2:30. Kid checks out, then checks the fukk back in.

 

[HandyWithTheSteel]

What’s up with that devil looking statue in the background?

 

[IIVI]

So much context missing. Dude blew up a few years before that with "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" in 1956 and that performance was 1960.

Of course many people knew dude was black beforehand. This whole culture of putting words in people's mouths is lame af. People making full-on storylines in their head off a single picture.

Truth is many people actually watched concerts during that time in a similar manner. It's funny look at the older comments to the video, nobody was race baiting.

 

[Nabs]

What’s up with that devil looking statue in the background?

Wish.com version of Alma Mater

 

[Kool]

Nah... they already knew he was black. Also... anybody could listen to that song and tell that it's sung by a black person.

 

[The Bookie]

 

[get these nets]

Do you know why they were acting like that?

Could be a number of reasons. mid reaction to a song that wasn't a smash hit, mid reaction to him because a more popular star was set to perform later on, a member alluded to an earlier controversy with a white female fan.

 

[get these nets]

Wait, the guy who tweeted it is doubling down? On a topic that he's VERIFIABLY wrong about?

 

[Master Teacher]

Nah... they already knew he was black. Also... anybody could listen to that song and tell that it's sung by a black person.

they use to put white people on the album covers of black artist you really don' know the history of this country do you

 

[KidJSoul]

Wait, the guy who tweeted it is doubling down? On a topic that he's VERIFIABLY wrong about?

Not everybody read magazines all the time

There's cats here who said back in the early 90s you didn't always know how the person who made a hit song even looked like until a few months later.

There's artists now with popular songs that I don't even know how they look like. And that's in the internet/information age


I'm not gonna say that Twitter posted is right, but it's feasible

 

[Based Mamba]

Reminds me of Chirs Rock in Dogma talking about Jesus being black. I can't remeber the exact line but it was something like "They love it until they find out they getting it from a black man"

 

[get these nets]

Not everybody read magazines all the time

There's cats here who said back in the early 90s you didn't always know how the person who made a hit song even looked like until a few months later.

There's artists now with popular songs that I don't even know how they look like. And that's in the internet/information age


I'm not gonna say that Twitter posted is right, but it's feasible

Those aren't magazine spreads. That is the front/back of the album for an act that had a top
10 hit.

And with a huge hit single, they likely appeared on any TV show aimed at teenybopper audience singIng the song.

The guy who tweeted it just doesnt want to walk back being wrong.

 

[JLova]

Y’all really think thry never knew he was black? Cmon y’all.