2012 photo shoot
If Bruce Jenner is a woman, then Rachel Dolezal is Black.
Racial Dole-is-All.
Makes sense, don’t it?
Plastifarian.
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.
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.