Posted on 06/16/2015 10:13:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I sympathize with the dilemma of Rachel Dolezal, the head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP whose parents maintain that she is not any part black, as she has claimed (#whiteisthenewblack). See, I too have been living a lie. For the past 50 years I’ve been keeping up this public charade, pretending to be something I’m not. Finally, in the wake of so many recent personal revelations by prominent people, I’ve decided to come out with the truth.
I am not tall (#shortstuff).
Although I’ve been claiming to be 7’2” for many decades, the truth is that I’m 5’8”. And that’s when I first get out of bed in the morning. Just goes to show, you tell a lie often enough and people believe you. I expect there will be some who will demand I give back the championship rings and titles that I accumulated during my college and professional basketball career because I was only able to win them by convincing other players that they had no chance against my superior height. How could these achievements have any lasting meaning if I’m not really as tall as Wikipedia says I am?
The evidence against Dolezal does seem pretty damning. Her birth parents have decided to express their parental love by outing her in response to a legal dispute they have with her (#returnworld’sbestparentstrophy). They offered photos of a farm-fresh Rachel looking like she just stepped out of the General Store in Mayberry and a white-on-white birth certificate. Some siblings have also attested that she’s not black, though she was raised alongside four adopted black children. Dolezal herself has just stepped aside from her position at the NAACP.
Despite all this, you can’t deny that Dolezal has proven herself a fierce and unrelenting champion for African-Americans politically and culturally.
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With that name is he pretending to be Arab?
RE: With that name is he pretending to be Arab?
Muslim.
Can I be a unicorn? Please please ...
:-)
“Don’t believe everything you read on the internet - Abe Lincoln”
I agree!
There are names for people who refuse to accept reality.
If it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck it must be a “dog”?
It's called Reality Nullification and it's the absolute rage among the libs. Here's an example, Hands up don't shoot, NEVER HAPPENED, but that didn't stop the reality nullifiers from acting as if it did.
Check your feline privilege.
“Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.”
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