2012 photo shoot
Posted on 06/18/2015 12:10:50 PM PDT by rickmichaels
In the strange and fascinating case of the suddenly and sensationally infamous civil-rights activist Rachel “I am definitely not white” Dolezal, there is something especially peculiar about the vast expenditure of effort in reporting, punditry and chat-show analysis undertaken by CNN, MSNBC, the CBC and all the dailies from the New York Times to Israel’s Haaretz and Britain’s Guardian, and the contributions from the new-media toilers at Buzzfeed and Slate and Vox and all the rest.
It’s this: nobody has managed to significantly advance the original story that veteran Idaho newspaper reporter Jeff Selle, after a mostly solitary investigation, filed for last Thursday’s editions of the plucky Coeur D’Alene Press. What little has been accomplished since last Thursday has come almost solely from the margins.
It wasn’t the Los Angeles Times art critic who revealed that the painting titled The Shape Of Our Kind that Dolezal had passed off as her own creation is a crude but nearly exact replication of J.M.W. Turner’s sublime 1840 work The Slave Ship. It was somebody on Twitter who first noticed it. The discovery that this same Rachel “I identify as black” Dolezal unsuccessfully sued Howard University in 2002 for discriminating against her because she was a white woman was made by a saucy little webzine called The Smoking Gun.
What we know, then, comes almost wholly from Jeff Selle’s old-fashioned spadework in Coeur D'Alene, and the story is basically this: at some point, perhaps 15 years ago, the bright, blonde, blue-eyed daughter of a slightly eccentric Christian couple in Montana started fabricating a fake identity for herself, bronzing her skin, putting her hair up in weaves and pretending to be a black woman. It might have something to do with her parents having adopted four African-American children.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...
If Bruce Jenner is a woman, then Rachel Dolezal is Black.
they be ants crawlin up in that
Racial Dole-is-All.
Makes sense, don’t it?
Plastifarian.
EGAD!!! WTF???
This article is right in one sense — in the bad old days, the opposite used to happen all the time with blacks “passing” for white. That was understandable given the real racism of the early part of the 20th Century.
That was understandable given the real racism of the early part of the 20th Century.
Also equally understandable why RD would pass as “black”, and for the same reasons (racism) today.
For your perusal
Exactly. It really shows how things have flipped. Instead of getting rid of racism and becoming color-blind, we’ve just switched which race gets all the perks and which race is discriminated against.
That image on the left proves that one of the local radio show hosts was right when he refers to the poser as Rachel Jolson with Sideshow Bob hair.
Well, this kind of racial pimping is new to Spokane, and the newscasters can hardly keep a straight face when reporting on her. The City Council is taking action against her too…..it’s a regular circus. And she’d definitely fallen off the trapeze.
Back in the 1990s, a lovely little children’s book called The Education of Little Tree, extolling the homespun virtues of Cherokee life that prevailed before the time of Indian residential schools, was a New York Times bestseller. It was made into a movie. Its author turned out to be not Cherokee at all but a white man, Asa Earl Carter, a vicious racist, a member of the Ku Klux Klan and a speechwriter for the segregationist Alabama governor, George Wallace.
More recently there was Ward Churchill, a gruesome loudmouth from the ethnic studies department of the University of Colorado who got cut a lot of slack for his hideous pronouncements until 2005, when the little Rocky Mountain News revealed that there was nothing to Churchill’s claims to be Muskogee, Creek and Keetowah Cherokee. A survey of more than 140 of Churchill’s forebears failed to come up with a single Native American.
In Canada back in the 1920s, we had Grey Owl, an Englishman, an ugly drunk, a serial philanderer and abuser whose real name was Archie Belaney. Grey Owl was the toast of the Upper Canada press, the deeply spiritual nature-conscious Noble Red Man prototype against which Canada’s aboriginal people continue to be evaluated and judged. Around the same time there was also Buffalo Child Long Lance, a mixed-race charlatan from North Carolina who pretended to be the son and heir of a high-born Blackfoot chief. For a time, the Vancouver Sun employed him to write columns about British Columbia’s native people.
From The Forward:
The Original Rachel Dolezal Was a Jew Named Mezz Mezzrow
And there was Anatole Broyard:
Rachel Dolezal isn't alone – my family history proves choosing a racial definition is hard
Rachel’s latest claim is that she thought NAACP stood for the National Association of Artificial Colored People.
No?
Oh, well.
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