[P-Marlowe]

This lady is a mental case.

Maybe one of these days we’ll all stop laughing at her and perhaps then we might actually feel sorry for her.

Maybe not.

[TomGuy]

[MUDDOG]

we all missed a huge boycott opportunity when Fred Armisen was playing Obama (terribly) for years on SNL.

But Darrell Hammond is set for a comeback with Trump in the race.

[a fool in paradise]

When is she going to be cited for hate speech?

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Something is her childhood and/or adolescence was screwed up. She was led by someone (parents? teachers? preachers? friends?) to so much identify with the victimhood of the blacks adopted into her family of origin that for psychological self-defense, and/or to get attention, to show she cared, she eventually started speaking of herself as if she was one of them. Children of Holocaust survivors have been known to think that their parents’ experiences of persecution were their own. In a sense they were, because of the psychological impact the parents’ past experiences have on their children born later. Their story was perceived to be bigger than life. This young woman’s “measly” life became identified as undesirable, as being the same color as the bad guys, the perceived “oppressors.” She decided to exit stage Left into the world where Blacks lived. There she could continue to be angry all the time, but now gain friends, appear to herself as noble, and get applauded for doing so. The other theory is of course possible - that she is just a calculating, completely aware, pathological liar and opportunist. I wager than her childhood with Black siblings adopted by her parents plays the major role in her life choices - applying to a traditionally all black college shows that her mental state was already set by the age of 18. She wanted a life among Blacks, as she had had growing up.

[alexander_busek]

One word in her semi-defense, though. Some critics claim she’s guilty of using “blackface” to pass, but blackface is designed to demean blacks by turning them into grotesque racial caricatures. That’s not what Dolezal did. Her make-up looks ridiculous once you’ve seen the photos of her pre-transition (the hair is a weave, in case you were curious), but it was evidently good enough for her to pass even in the halls of the NAACP. Whatever you may think of her and her ruse, her intention clearly wasn’t to demean.

So, it's the intent that matters!

Consequently, Whoopi Goldberg's boyfriend dressing up in blackface - since not intended as a racial slight, since not intended to demean or offend - was okay.

And consequently, a Confederate flag sticker on one's bumper is likewise okay - as long as there is no intent to demean or offend. And, of course, since no one is telepathic, we must all always assume that - even if we "feel offended" - the other person didn't mean to offend us.

Thanks, Rachel, for opening this can of worms!

Regard,

[Enterprise]

"Her make-up looks ridiculous once you’ve seen the photos of her pre-transition (the hair is a weave, in case you were curious), but it was evidently good enough for her to pass even in the halls of the NAACP."

And whenever the brothers saw her they thought: "Now that's a FINE looking woman."

[Old Teufel Hunden]

I saw her one adopted brother (from Haiti I believe) interviewed on CNN. He works in the oil fields up there somewhere in the northwest. Anyways, after watching the interview I could just see the pain in his face and hear it in his voice. He basically denied all of the stuff about his adopted parents abusing her and he doesn’t know why she is doing any of this. But when he talked about how he still loves her very much and just wish she would come back to the family, it really broke my heart. We make fun of her (and I do too believe me) but it looks to me like she is putting her family through a lot of pain and that’s the sad part of this story.