2025 hasn’t even seen three full months go by without a horde of unprecedented moments. Malik Yoba added to this by declaring that he no longer identifies as Black.
“America? I’ve decided that I’m no longer a Black man. I’m no longer a person of color, BIPOC, none of that sh*t,” the 57-year-old actor said in a video. “What I am is a non-white man. And I think we should all just start calling ourselves non-white. So, they’re gonna have to figure it out. Let them rebuke that. Let them refute it. Let them come up with something that just says, ‘We like all non-whites.’ Excuse me. ‘We don’t like all non-whites.’”
On the surface, this comes off strange, but Willie D believes Yoba was on to something. “Are you picking up what he’s putting down?” he asked his YouTube audience in a video. “Malik is trying to say is this: Trump Administration has rallied white folks to come together against everybody else and that the only way the rest of us individuals stand a chance is to consolidate our individual powers and make a collective effort to get what we want and what we need out of this Administration and out of this country.” The Houston rapper stated that he can “dig that.” Watch the clip and more below.
Malik Yoba’s timing is interesting, given Donald Trump’s executive order to eliminate all DEI initiatives in the workplace and matters concerning government funding. Trump believes this will restore “fairness and accountability in federal hiring” and has even blamed an aircraft crash in Washington D.C. on DEI.
The current President claimed that former President Joe Biden called his Aviation Administration workforce “too white” and held the belief that they were “psychologically superior” to the diversity hires. “It just could have been. We have a high standard. We’ve had a much higher standard than anybody else. And there are things where you have to go by brainpower,” he told The Associated Press. “You have to go by psychological quality, and psychological quality is a very important element of it.”
