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Rachel Dolezal’s trans-racial shtick didn’t play very well in South Africa
Hot Air ^ | April 22, 2017 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 04/22/2017 6:01:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The book tour Rachel Dolezal set out on recently has wound up taking her further than I might have imagined. In fact, she made it all the way to South Africa at the invitation of one Clyde Ramalaine, a former priest who now refers to himself as a “bishop” but actually runs a communications company. Her appearance didn’t go off without a hitch, however, Many of the black, South African students in attendance were, shall we say, a bit less than receptive. (Daily Mail)

Deriding Ms Dolezal’s claim to ‘racial fludity’, she was told by a member of the mostly-black audience of students that , ‘Only a white person could claim blackness and tour the world talking to blacks about blackness.’

Another attendee demanded to know, ‘What are your daily experiences as a black person? Is it wearing braids, what is it? …

‘She is just sick or a fraud. Can you imagine a black person from Africa being given a visa and this special treatment to go to America or to London claiming to be white and having the red carpet rolled out for them?

‘This is just another example of white supremacy, why must we have to listen to her?’

There’s more of that but it just gets uncomfortable fairly quickly. I’ll confess that I actually felt rather sorry for her. But if we learned anything from this trip, it’s that the same arguments which took place in the United States when Dolezal was first exposed as a Caucasian were being made in Africa. The aforementioned “bishop” who invited her was giving a speech in her defense which looked like it could have been taken straight from a transcript of an MSNBC roundtable.

‘No one accuses Bruce Jenner of living a lie, or calls him a fraud. He is celebrated for his bravery in being truthful about his true identity.

‘Yet Rachel is vilified, is treated as a pariah, accused of lying about who she really was.’

‘She has chosen to self define and that’s her right. Can’t we just live with who she wants to be? I embrace Rachel as she defines herself,’ he insisted.

Psssst… Bishop? You may have missed a memo over there but I think you’re supposed to call him Caitlyn.

You sort of have to forgive him for taking this approach because he’s hardly the first one. Of course, compared to many of us, he has the argument skewed rather sideways. If you wish to assume that Jenner is actually a woman it’s easy enough to begin hurling accusations about how he competed for all of those years as a man. (That’s obviously unfair because female athletes are one group which definitely does experience a gender wage gap compared to their male colleagues.) But by referring to Jenner with a male pronoun it sounds as if you really don’t believe he can be a woman. And if that’s the case, how do you justify turning around and saying that your friend Rachel can simply decide to be black? It just seems to me that you can’t have it both ways, as much as the SJW transgender warriors who decry Dolezal try to do so.

There’s plenty more of the feedback that Dolezal received, both on social media and at her live events, over at the Daily Mail link. Feel free to flip through, but as I said previously… it gets pretty brutal.


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Chit/Chat; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: africa; blacks; racheldolezal; racialfluidity; racialfluidityrofl
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Yet Shaun King is still employed.
1 posted on 04/22/2017 6:01:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

African blacks should play the game and start proclaiming they are ethnic Europeans. Why not? If race is just a social construct, like gender, prove it and proclaim all black people are white. What are they? racists?


2 posted on 04/22/2017 6:04:26 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She and Jenner et al are mentally ill. They are pitiable and not worthy of any attention.


3 posted on 04/22/2017 6:04:53 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I just look like a thin white guy, I’m really a large black woman.......


4 posted on 04/22/2017 6:07:36 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JphDdGV2TU


5 posted on 04/22/2017 6:14:58 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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I just look like a thin white guy, I’m really a large black woman.......

Been done already:


6 posted on 04/22/2017 6:17:43 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey now, we call bruce jenner a liar and a fraud too!


7 posted on 04/22/2017 6:18:43 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: freedumb2003

That’s my white mama!


8 posted on 04/22/2017 6:19:44 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Trillian

>>That’s my white mama!<<

Back when Mad TV was funny. :)


9 posted on 04/22/2017 6:22:34 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The aforementioned “bishop” who invited her was giving a speech in her defense which looked like it could have been taken straight from a transcript of an MSNBC roundtable.

Or any kindergarten class...

Why is the word "priest" so casually and carelessly used? Does it matter what kind of a priest he was? It does to me. If I declare myself a "Cardinal" does my moral and religious authority outrank his?
If not, why not?

These imbecilities are mind-numbing. I just ignore them without a second thought.

10 posted on 04/22/2017 6:27:57 PM PDT by publius911 (I SUPPORT MY PRESIDENT?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She’s going to get the National Association of Always Complaining People on her. They’ll make her regret every Aunt Jemimah pancake mix she ever claimed she bought.


11 posted on 04/22/2017 6:30:00 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Beware of strong drink. It may cause you to shoot at tax collectors . . . and miss.)
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Aren’t you guys worried about her ending up unemployed and homeless?


12 posted on 04/22/2017 6:31:39 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
It keeps me up every night.

in stitches

13 posted on 04/22/2017 6:33:43 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Beware of strong drink. It may cause you to shoot at tax collectors . . . and miss.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Racial D is learning that it’s a cold, hard world out there filled with people who don’t spend their adult lives playing make-believe. That’s the luxury of a wealthy and, to be honest, degenerate culture like ours.


14 posted on 04/22/2017 6:34:16 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Racial fluidity ,nope she just Nuts


15 posted on 04/22/2017 6:37:46 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

HaHa. All the crap she threw against the wall that momentarily stuck is now falling off in sheets and no one is amused.


16 posted on 04/22/2017 6:39:57 PM PDT by Fungi (Please give suggestions for fungal taglines. Merci.)
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Who was it that said that her self definition was a pigment of her imagination?

Guess they are smarter than we are over there and figured that out.


17 posted on 04/22/2017 6:40:26 PM PDT by amihow
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She did inform them that if they’re with her, they could get service at Cracker Barrel?


18 posted on 04/22/2017 6:42:28 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Ray76

Nuttier than a fruitcake.


19 posted on 04/22/2017 6:47:59 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why do they keep calling her Rachel? Didn’t she recently say that her name was actually Nkechi Something Something?


20 posted on 04/22/2017 6:53:30 PM PDT by bus man (Loose Lips Sink Ships)
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