Posted on 03/08/2018 6:46:08 AM PST by BBell
Notorious race imposter Rachel Dolezal will not go away.
In 2015, the 40-year-old civil rights activist was catapulted into the national spotlight after she was exposed for lying about her African-American background. Though she later admitted both of her biological parents were white, Dolezal attempted to defend herself by claiming to identify as “trans-black.” The fact that she has refused to change her position has resulted in widespread backlash. And it has apparently impacted her children.
On Wednesday, Netflix released a clip of their upcoming original documentary titled The Rachel Divide. Vulture reports award-winning filmmaker Laura Brownson followed Dolezal and her family over the course of two years, as they struggled to deal with public scrutiny. Though Dolezal said the documentary will help rebuild their lives, her son Franklin isn’t as optimistic.
“This book coming out, and this documentary might just backfire like everything else has backfired,” Franklin said in the clip. “I resent some of her choices, and I resent some of the words she’s spoken in interviews […] She can identify as anything she wants to be, because it’s her business. But when it’s put in the limelight, I don’t think you should be pissing people off more than they already are, unless you want to get bit in the ass from it. She did not choose her words carefully. It affected me, it affected my brother.”
You can check out the clip above. The Rachel Divide is set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival next month, and will be released via Netflix on April 27.
I’d like to thank my Mom and Dad for being normal and not celebrity freakshows!
Today, I’m identifying as a purple porcupine. Tomorrow it’ll be a toss up between an onion or a bathtub hot water faucet.
Poor kid. It’s obvious that he is the child in the family who has to be the adult because his mother insists on playing the child’s role. She wants to remain in a fantasy world where she gets to pretend and play dress-up, and wants him to play along with her. But he is too mature for that and wants to face reality like an adult. At some point he is going to leave and escape the lunacy and get on with his life. I don’t think she ever will.
I don't understand the backlash against her either. Now that genders can change on the fly ("Gender fluidity") I don't see why this Dolezal idiot cannot identify as black. She doesn't have to mutilate herself, and it only requires her getting her hair cornrowed or 'fro'd to look the part.
Bkmrk.
Good point. I think that if the scandal of her faking blackness had erupted a year later when more people had accepted the lunacy that it is perfectly “normal” to choose your gender, she would have been more accepted. Still, she was a white woman choosing to be black. Being a white person is an obvious obstacle. There is no absolution for “whiteness”.
Hell, they have been telling us for decades that “we all came out of Africa” anyway. So wouldn’t we all be “African-Americans”, in a way, if that were true? Some of us just emigrated before the others.
Dolezal reminds me of my first thoughts when Obama became president.
It must have been the hardest thing in the world for him to try to shed being being “half-white”, while trying to convince everybody that he was a completely black man.
No, no, no, you’re wrong. We can only benefit from having her in the spotlight, showing the inanity of the postmodern identitarian left. Every minute of her fame is pure glory!
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