Posted on 06/17/2015 5:01:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
This week, Rachel Dolezal, the former local head of the Spokane NAACP, a lecturer in Africana studies at Eastern Washington University, and a proud black woman, was revealed to be a non-proud white woman. She lied about her personal history: She said her parents whipped her when they lived in South Africa, that she underwent rape and physical abuse, that the KKK targeted her with swastikas and nooses. No evidence exists to support any of this. Her parents point out that Dolezal has no black ancestry, and grew up in a Montana home as the child of two white parents.
Nonetheless, Dolezal insists she is black. "I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon, and black curly hair," she said to Today. "It's a little more complex than me identifying as black or answering a question of, are you black or white?"
Just two weeks ago, the world went gaga over Bruce Jenner's transformation into Caitlyn Jenner; the left passionately insisted that Jenner's genetics, hormones and penis did not mean he could not be a woman. The president of the United States felt the need to tweet out his support for Jenner, stating, "It takes courage to share your story." Anyone who abided by the antiquated notion that biological sex exists was treated as a Neanderthal holdover.
Now, however, the left insists that Rachel Dolezal is not black. On June 9, The Daily Beast headlined, "Caitlyn Jenner Is Pissing Off Feminists and Bigots -- Good for Her." Three days later, The Daily Beast headlined, "BREAKING: NAACP 'Stands Behind' Fake Black Woman." The left insists on preserving non-biological, illegitimate racial barriers because they exploit those racial barriers for political gain; the left insists on destroying biologically based sexual differences because they wish to overthrow all established sexual mores.
So what distinguishes Jenner from Dolezal? On what basis can we reject Dolezal's blackness, given that the left has now redefined objective reality as self-definition? If you want to be a woman, you are a woman. If you want to be black, why can't you be black?
Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine makes the odd argument that Jenner had transformed into a woman because Jenner sincerely believes that he has transformed into a woman, whereas Dolezal had fraudulently lied about her race for gain. Now that Dolezal has averred her sincerity, presumably she is black.
Or perhaps there is some objective measure of race? But that, too, fails on the merits: Sex is significantly more biological than race, and it is significantly more significant than race. Skin color is surely biological, but the relevance of race is purely sociological, as even those on the left acknowledge. As Ian Haney Lopez of U.C. Berkeley writes, biology "refutes the supposition that racial divisions reflect fundamental genetic differences." Black people have black skin, but how black must your skin be for you to be legitimately black? In the Old South, one drop of black blood made you black, and therefore fit for discrimination. But that was a racist societal distinction, not a biologically based one. As Rachel Dolezal puts it, if you go far back enough, "we're all from the African continent."
Perhaps race is a societal construct and can change, but society must uphold racial differences for some greater goal? But that would be pure racism: The goal of fighting racism would be to alleviate racial distinctions, which have no behavioral basis, despite the musings of the would-be comedians at #AskRachelDolezal.
And so we come to this inescapable conclusion: By the left's standards, Rachel Dolezal is black. She can choose her race, just as Bruce Jenner can choose his sex. And she didn't choose. She always felt that way. After all, no one would choose to be black, just as no one would choose to be gay -- blacks are so put upon in American society that no one would fake being black for, say, the benefits of employment or mainstream leftist celebration.
Perhaps we can all learn from Rachel Dolezal: Race doesn't matter. Except that it does for people like Rachel Dolezal, which is why she went black. Rachel Dolezal is a poster child for the deconstructionist, victim-manufacturing left. But now she's learning: Once you go black, the left will make you go back.
White is the new black.
Far too much is being written about this. The country is neurotically obsessed with race.
She went Black to get a scholarship, credibility and a job.
No one goes White to get a scholarship, credibility and a job. I thought there was “White Privilege”
I think the parents are wonderful. Hey, they never mention that they had adopted children. That was brought to light later. They wanted to expose their daughter’s lies.
Typical white folks.
Now that is racist!
Aw, a cute little fluffy white kitty!
Don't leave out the end result. Gentrification is the opposite of block-busting. People would move into slums and make improvements. The improvements would raise property values and property taxes, driving out the low income residents who are eventually replaced by more affluent residents.
-PJ
No matter what else comes of this,Rachel gets a lot of publicity maybe for some reason down the road.
Is that one of those new black Tigers I have heard about?
Hahaha, I said that last week.
When are the liberals gonna build us castles? I’m waiting, peons.
She may have resigned as the president of her local NAACP chapter, but I’m sure her local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Crazy People (NAACP) will take her.
She won’t even have to change her business cards.
You are a racial slut!
They’re so cute when they’re small.
LOLOLOL
“So what is highlighted is the anti-reality nature of liberalism.”
You said it, the following quote is one of the most anti-reality statements I have ever read, only a pure fool or someone trying to distort reality for his own benefit would write this.
“After all, no one would choose to be black, just as no one would choose to be gay — blacks are so put upon in American society that no one would fake being black for, say, the benefits of employment or mainstream leftist celebration.”
In truth there are many reasons to choose to be black if you can do so. There are no longer any real preferences I can think of that are given to whites vs. blacks but there are all kinds of preferences given to blacks vs. whites. Anyone who wishes to work for any level of government for one instance would certainly be better off to be black. The chance of becoming a government employee as a black woman must be about a hundred times better than as a white male. Do any of these clowns realize that South Carolina has elected a black man named Tim Scott to fill the senate seat vacated by the man they hated so much, Jim Demint?
Read this, liberal fools, “Scott is one of two African Americans serving in the United States Senate, the first African-American senator from the state of South Carolina, the first Black Republican elected to the United States Senate since the defeat of Edward Brooke in 1979, and the first elected from the South since the late 19th century (specifically, since 1881, four years after the end of Reconstruction.) He is also the first African American to have been elected to both the House of Representatives and the Senate.”
Black people could take control of everything in the entire world and some idiots would still be yakking about so-called white privilege, I am sick and tired of it and will henceforth tell any clown who talks this garbage that he is an utter fool and idiot. If something is holding someone back in 2015 America it is certainly NOT his dark skin. Over FORTY years ago I was asked by my employer to help to recruit a black person, preferably a woman but a man would do because they were having great difficulty finding anyone to get the federal government off their back for having an all white group of tech reps in SC. They had to got to great lengths to find someone because no one other than whites were applying at the time. They eventually managed to recruit a black man by searching high and low and asking him to apply. I don’t believe that anyone is being denied an opportunity in this state because he is black, I simply don’t buy it. Denied an opportunity for other reasons IN SPITE OF BEING BLACK I will believe.
Thanks!
And here’s the rest of the story....
http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/rachel-dolezal-brother-child-sex-abuse-charges/
More Lies? Rachel Dolezal’s Brother Accused Of Child Sex Abuse — But Parents Claim Race Faker Made It All Up!
Race faker Rachel Dolezal’s biological brother, Joshua, is facing child sex abuse charges in Colorado, with the trial scheduled to begin in August. Court documents obtained by RadarOnline.com reveal an array of graphic allegations — but her parents claim Rachel made it all up!
According to court documents obtained by Radar, Joshua is accused of sexually abusing a female sibling between 2001 and 2002, when the child was six-years-old. The abuse allegedly occurred in Joshua and Rachel’s parent’s house during the time they were living in Colorado.
READ THE BOMBSHELL COURT DOCUMENTS
The allegations surfaced against Joshua in 2013, and according to the search warrant, the accuser came forward because “Joshua Dolezal has a one year-old daughter and [victim] does not want the daughter to be victimized.” The alleged victim is now 20 years old.
Joshua is accused of both forcing the child to perform oral sex on him, and performing oral sex on the child. He also would “follow [the child] into the bathroom and make [the child] undress and would touch …” the documents claim. “This happened over twenty times.”
According to the documents, the child told their adoptive mother, and she told them to “stop telling lies.”
What’s more, the documents allege, Joshua threatened his victim, insisting, “‘Don’t tell anyone or I’ll hurt you.’”
The documents state that the assaults ended when he returned to college.
Meanwhile, Joshua and Rachel’s biological mother, Ruthanne, told People Magazine Rachel was responsible for the claims being made against Joshua.
“That is all a malicious false lie. [Rachel] is the one who initiated it. We know it is not true,” Ruthanne told the publication.
Rachel became the legal guardian of her adopted brother, Izaiah, and has hinted her parents publicly revealed she was white in retaliation for her actions involving her siblings.
Joshua remains free on $15,000 bail, pending the August trial.
“The bottom line is that there are so many perks and gibmedats for being black that she used it for personal gain”
Once I left the Army and entered college I decided to go to the local government benefits office and apply for Medicaid. I figured that I needed some kind of emergency health insurance...
I walked in, was clearly a minority and was told, “You a white boy, go gits a job!”
I should have responded, “But I feel black!”
We’re both speculating. But to answer your question, if my 34 year old daughter were doing this well, I would try really hard to stay connecting in spite of her issues and then if given the chance, try to talk to her. I wouldn’t out her in the national news.
Why can’t we all just be Americans?
As famous Communist "intellectual" Susan Sontag once said, "[t]he Caucasian race is the cancer of the planet."
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