Knuck If You Buck: I Don’t Drink Around White People.

Garrick McFadden
10 min readNov 4, 2022

“Knuck if you buck boy
Knuck if you buck boy
Knuck if you buck boy.” — Knuck If You Buck, by Crime Mob

The relatively new TV show with the dragons and the thrones that weak-ass white people are claiming is too woke because it has black people in it, reminded me of one immutable fact: Don’t get drunk around a bunch of white people. You know the scene where the black person covered his goblet because he was in a room of all white people and refused to drink under these circumstances resonated across the Culture. Black Twitter was abuzz for days regarding this realistic detail. I too joined in the merriment. However, as weeks passed I found myself thinking about this photo more than I should. Yes, it was funny. Some of the tweets were hilarious. Finally, I realized why my mind would not let go of this meme: I don’t drink in front of white people either. One or five white people, no problem. When we start pushing one black person for every 15 or 20 white people that is when I enter involuntary sobriety. I am not about to be in any situation lacking. A party with 200 people and three black people, I ain’t drinking. It is like when you are at a party and someone says they rolling deep in this mug it is a subtle warning to say your goodbyes and create new plans for the evening. If I am at any type of private event or in a secluded place, I have one unshakeable rule: don’t drink around white people if our numbers are low.

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Garrick McFadden

I am a civil-rights attorney. I write about #whiteness, #racism, #hiphop, policing & politics. https://gamesqlaw.com/index.php/thoughts/