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Melissa Harris-Perry on Rachel Dolezal: ‘It Is Possible That She Might Actually Be Black?’
Mediaite ^ | 6/13/15 | Josh Feldman

Posted on 06/14/2015 10:55:47 AM PDT by markomalley

If you’ve been following the Rachel Dolezal story online, you may have seen the word “transracial” being thrown around and people saying choosing to be black is like Caitlyn Jenner choosing to be female. It’s unclear how much of it’s sincere and how much is just straight-up trolling, but MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry entertained the notion on her show today with kind of a huge question.

“Is it possible that she might actually be black?”

While not wanting to make the transgender comparison, Harris-Perry questioned whether one can be “cisblack and transblack,” and whether there’s a way to describe “the achievement of blackness despite one’s parentage.”

Alyson Hobbs, who literally wrote the book on “racial passing,” said there’s “certainly a chance that she identifies as a black woman and there could be authenticity to that.”

Watch the video below, via MSNBC:

(video at link)


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: racheldolezal; transblack
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To: Bruce Kurtz

Didn’t she say her parents were racists? Why would they adopt several black children if they were racist?


21 posted on 06/14/2015 11:06:56 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: markomalley
Harris-Perry questioned whether one can be “cisblack and transblack,” and whether there’s a way to describe “the achievement of blackness despite one’s parentage.”

No.

22 posted on 06/14/2015 11:08:07 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: markomalley
Trans Am


23 posted on 06/14/2015 11:08:14 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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To: Dr. Ursus
Like this I suspect:

The Elaine Dance

24 posted on 06/14/2015 11:09:36 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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To: Bryanw92
So now I can achieve blackness? Do you need to collect something like Green Stamps or is it like a Navy qual card where you just get signatures for performing “black tasks”?

Thanks to the gains in acceptance made by the transgendered crowd, all you need to do is "self identify" as black and you're in the club. If that's all that's required to be a man or a women, why not black?

25 posted on 06/14/2015 11:09:55 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: markomalley
Surely, DNA can prove what her parents and photographic evidence shows. Ms Dolezal is a white woman. And as for Bruce Jenner, his chromosomes would show he is male.

When I was a boy, I thought at times I was going to be a professional baseball player and later an NBA basketball star. At some point, I realized it just wasn't going to happen. I don't pretend today to be a sports star. But using the logic of these people being duped, I could with just as much veracity and factual proof.

26 posted on 06/14/2015 11:10:16 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: markomalley

She gives new meaning to the word, IDIOT!!!


27 posted on 06/14/2015 11:10:26 AM PDT by rejoicing
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To: markomalley

What is ‘cis’? As in sissy? Seriously, I see that but don’t get it.


28 posted on 06/14/2015 11:10:51 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: markomalley
It is with a very, very low level of reluctance I admit I am highly entertained by this story.  photo wasthatwrong_zpsk1qi9tem.png
29 posted on 06/14/2015 11:11:28 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
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To: Ueriah

Good! Teachers are what caused this problem in the first place. Let them put out the fire they started.


30 posted on 06/14/2015 11:12:04 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: KC_Lion

lol


31 posted on 06/14/2015 11:13:16 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: nickcarraway

To help with the cotton crop?


32 posted on 06/14/2015 11:13:18 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: markomalley

Said the woman with tampons in her ears.


33 posted on 06/14/2015 11:13:39 AM PDT by tje
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To: nickcarraway

her bro is adopted

momma and daddy are Saltines


34 posted on 06/14/2015 11:13:48 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: markomalley

How many People actually watch MSDNC Melissa anyway?


35 posted on 06/14/2015 11:13:48 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary, because it's time for a POTUS without a SCROTUS...)
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To: markomalley

I don’t know, but I can just picture Asian-American parents coaching their children now to adopt a transblack identity—so they have a chance to get into the colleges they deserve to be in. There could be a real blossoming of Asian hip-hop culture so they can “pass”.


36 posted on 06/14/2015 11:14:21 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: markomalley

She better have those finger nails with the gold decorations and such.


37 posted on 06/14/2015 11:15:10 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Lizavetta

I am literally laughing out loud every time I see that picture. This is just too funny. It exposes the left on so many levels. She was an ethnic hairstylist and a professor of black studies in addition to being President of the Spokan, WA NAACP.

And she looked like that at ~10-12 ?!?!


38 posted on 06/14/2015 11:15:20 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
It is with a very, very low level of reluctance I admit I am highly entertained by this story.

Oh you made me laugh so hard with that.

39 posted on 06/14/2015 11:15:38 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Lizavetta

Well—those freckles on her skin, are dark!!


40 posted on 06/14/2015 11:15:50 AM PDT by Exit148 ((Loose Change Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
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