Rihanna made headlines this week that she revealed that she and the superstar rapper Drake are no longer on speaking terms.

One reason why? Her feeling that he hijacked a moment designed to honour her contributions to Pop culture by professing his admiration for her beauty.

Today, members of the digital community have taken to Twitter to reveal that they feel that Drake’s supposed “thirstiness” wouldn’t be as palatable to the masses if he was a full African-American male.

An interesting conversation, partially fuelled by Wale‘s remarks on how he feel colorsim affects him, below…

Do you agree?

Does colorism affect black men in the way it does black women?