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 didnt 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 Dolezals 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?
Theres more of that but it just gets uncomfortable fairly quickly. Ill confess that I actually felt rather sorry for her. But if we learned anything from this trip, its 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 thats her right. Cant 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 youre supposed to call him Caitlyn.
You sort of have to forgive him for taking this approach because hes 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 its easy enough to begin hurling accusations about how he competed for all of those years as a man. (Thats 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 dont believe he can be a woman. And if thats 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 cant have it both ways, as much as the SJW transgender warriors who decry Dolezal try to do so.
Theres 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.
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?
She and Jenner et al are mentally ill. They are pitiable and not worthy of any attention.
I just look like a thin white guy, I’m really a large black woman.......
Been done already:
Hey now, we call bruce jenner a liar and a fraud too!
That’s my white mama!
>>Thats my white mama!<<
Back when Mad TV was funny. :)
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.
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.
Aren’t you guys worried about her ending up unemployed and homeless?
in stitches
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.
Racial fluidity ,nope she just Nuts
HaHa. All the crap she threw against the wall that momentarily stuck is now falling off in sheets and no one is amused.
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.
She did inform them that if they’re with her, they could get service at Cracker Barrel?
Nuttier than a fruitcake.
Why do they keep calling her Rachel? Didn’t she recently say that her name was actually Nkechi Something Something?
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