Posted on 06/14/2015 10:55:47 AM PDT by markomalley
If youve 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. Its unclear how much of its sincere and how much is just straight-up trolling, but MSNBCs 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 theres a way to describe the achievement of blackness despite ones parentage.
Alyson Hobbs, who literally wrote the book on racial passing, said theres 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)
Are college campii already teaching this?
How about the term “TransEthnic”?
How about the term “mentally imbalanced” or the term “mentally impaired”?
Is it possible that she might actually be black?
Is it possible that she might actually be mentally deranged?
If she has black brothers and sisters, why isn’t she black?
It must be REALLY challenging to teach high school biology right now.
Probably. Next victim....DNA
Democrat scientist tools...’What we thought we knew’, may be wrong.
If Wilt Chamberlain was still alive would he be grinning.
>>It must be REALLY challenging to teach high school biology right now.
Not really. Just teach the answers on the standardized test, like every other “educator”.
I believe I am one of Daenerys Targaryen dragons so please let me out of the dungeon.
I think they were adopted
How do people say crap like this with a straight face?
>>whether theres a way to describe the achievement of blackness despite ones parentage.
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”?
Has any seen her dance moves?
Her “blackness” was caused by global warming and/or George Bush....
Look at that nose, she is black. From now on I judge a person by the size of their nostrils and not by the content of their character.
margin of error
If Rachel Dolezal can’t do a proper Black woman head wobble then she is no wares near Black!
Dolezal reached tje pinnacle of White Priviledge by choosing to be Black
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