The 33 'Blackest White Folks'

Some white people “claim ‘blackness,’” and a few actually do make the cut. The Root offers a list of the 33 “blackest white folks we know”:

• Christina Aguilera: Unlike fellow pop starlets Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson, Aguilera actually has soul. She even “channeled Patti LaBelle in the remake of ‘Lady Marmalade.’”
• Glenn Beck: Perhaps he’s the person you’d least expect to see on this list, but he did give a black history lesson on his show.
• Eminem: “He's from Detroit. He raps about the hard-knock life. And he rolls with Dr. Dre. Case closed.”

• Joe Biden: The VP once “almost scrapped with a pomade-wearing brother named Corn Pop during his days as a lifeguard at a predominantly black swimming pool”—so he gets a “‘hood pass.”
• Kim Kardashian: “Never mind the Booty Pop physique.” She makes the list because her on-again, off-again relationship with Reggie Bush made it into Essence’s “Black Love” issue.
• Asher Roth: “Like Kanye, he grew up middle-class. Like Kanye, his sartorial style is more preppy than hip-hop. Like Kanye, he's got absolutely no street cred.” (For more on the "dork" rapper, click here.)

To see the complete list, click here. (More black people stories.)