Rachel Dolezal NAACP controversy

"her sons"??? Does she actually have children, or are these her adoptive brothers that she calls her "sons"??

 

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Who knows. Everything out of her mouth has been a lie

 

Worth the read



Everyone sometimes feels the urge to reinvent themselves — to start again afresh in a new place, free from the assumptions others have made about them.

Even so, after Rachel Dolezal moved from their family home in Montana to the city of Spokane in Washington State, her adopted brother was stunned to learn just how thoroughly she had transformed herself.

The blonde-haired, blue-eyed daughter of missionaries was passing herself off as black, and had even befriended an African-American man she was pretending was her father. She begged her brother Ezra not to rock the boat by revealing the truth about her past.

Rachel told Ezra that, as one of four African-American infants her parents had adopted, he was welcome to visit her, not least because he obviously fitted in with her new persona. Much to his dismay, she wanted him to go along with the lie that he was her brother by blood.

‘She told me not to blow her cover,’ Ezra said yesterday. ‘She told me not to tell anybodyabout Montana or her family over there. She said she was starting a new life.

Ezra was both baffled and angered by her imposture, which he considered tantamount to ‘blackface’, the deeply controversial tradition of white entertainers blacking up their faces. And it was, to be brutally frank, little different: she started to darken her skin colour, frizz up her straight hair into dark curls, and affect an African-American accent.

Ezra’s anger turned to fury when he and his family discovered that, not content simply pretending to be black, 37-year-old Miss Dolezal had even invented a whole history of suffering at the hands of white oppression, to help her climb the ladder in the civil rights worldRachel s the president of the NAACP in Spokane.

She told those she encountered in her new incarnation how her white mother and white step-father (in truth, her real father) had punished their mixed-race children with a kind of whip that had once been used on slaves.

Miss Dolezal also complained to the police of being the victim of hate crimes by white racists, who she said had even left a noose in her garage.

All this posturing appeared to do the trick, helping to establish Miss Dolezal as a leading light of the black rights movement in America’s Pacific Northwest. She is the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Spokane, Washington state’s second- biggest city. She also runs the city’s police oversight committee and is an African Studies professor at the local university, where she gives impassioned classes on The Black Woman’s Struggle.

Now, however, after her horribly misrepresented parents decided it was time to reveal the truth about their daughter, her astonishing, decade-long deception has come spectacularly tumbling down. When a TV news crew finally confronted her, and asked if she was African-American, she eventually stammered that she ‘didn’t understand the question’ and ran off to hide in a dress shop.

Officials are now investigating whether she should be prosecuted for lying about her racial background in her application for the police ombudsman’s job. She might yet also face trouble from police, who have dropped investigations into all nine of the alleged race hate crimes she suffered amid allegations she invented them.

This outlandish case could have been dismissed as an example of someone merely seeking to get a leg up in their career by posing as someone they are not. But this is America, with its bitter legacy of slavery and segregation.

Now, the country’s tortured race debate has been reignited once again as commentators from all sides battle over what the Dolezal case actually means. Some have shown sympathy for her, others have been outraged — but few are daring to laugh at this bizarre scandal.

Black or mixed-race Americans have for centuries been passing themselves off as white in order to better their lives, but you can probably count on one hand the number of people who have tried to go in the opposite direction. So what are we to think of a talented young white woman who has spent the past decade pretending to be black?

Her brother Ezra says Miss Dolezal — still with a pale complexion and straight blonde hair — complained to her family of suffering racism.

She developed a ‘dislike for being white, and for white people’ that boiled down to ‘self-hatred’, he believes.

After university, she had a short-lived marriage to an African-American man which produced a son but ended, she claims, because her husband became violent to her and to the child.

In around 2006 or 2007, she started to ‘disguise’ herself as black, says her mother. It started with her hair — she had enjoyed arranging the hair of her adopted black sister, Esther — and Miss Dolezal was soon braiding her own in the same ethnic style, often covering it in an African headwrap.

By 2011, say family members, she was applying make-up to her face to appear ‘darker and darker’. A new look needed a new back story, and hers was elaborate — born in a tepee and brought up in South Africa, she said she had had to hunt with a bow and arrows for food.

None of it, say her family, is remotely true — she hasn’t even set foot in Africa.

It’s easy to scoff now at the many times this firebrand has eloquently spoken out about the difficulties of living as a black woman in a largely white part of the States. Even going to the cinema to watch 12 Years A Slave was an ordeal, she said, as she felt the eyes of her white neighbours turn to watch her reaction.

In 2010, she told the New York Times that she could ‘not imagine showing her face’ at an event held by the Tea Party, the ultra-conservative faction in the Republican Party, because of the preponderance of white faces. ‘It would make me nervous to be there unless I went with a big group,’ she said. Only last December, she wrote a column about the ‘asphyxiation we are experiencing as black people in America’.

Certainly, it would have been pretty much impossible to take some of her radical stances if she had been whiteA video clip, entitled Black Is Beautiful, shot in one of the classes she gives at Eastern Washington University, shows her railing against how black women’s hairstyles have been dictated by ‘white supremacy and racism’.

Talking about one particular style of African-American hair, she tugs at her own tight curls and says: ‘Like this.’

Thanks to her pretence, Miss Dolezal got away with a lot of arguably racist behaviour of her own. She once refused to allow a light-skinned Hispanic student to participate in a class exercise about white oppression because ‘she didn’t look Hispanic’.

Her tweets included one in which she lambasted the Oscar-winning film The Help, which examines the nature of social segregation between black and white, sniffing how it had ‘put $206mil in a white woman’s pocket.


In another tweet, she praised a video entitled ‘S**t White Girls Say ... to Black Girls’, claiming it was ‘true2life’.

It would be easy simply to goggle in astonishment — and many have. Critics of overweening political correctness are having a field day over the lengths one liberal white woman has gone to identify with black oppression. Dolezal may even remind British TV viewers of the ludicrous Ali G, the white rapper persona created by the comic Sacha Baron Cohen, who liked to complain at every perceived slight: ‘Is it because I is black?’

Conservatives have also highlighted what they see as the hypocrisy of liberals who have condemned Miss Dolezal’s claims to be black, yet applauded the recent announcement by former Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner that he is now a woman calling herself Caitlyn.

Why can Jenner — who hasn’t even had gender-altering surgery — say he’s a woman if she can’t say she’s black?

But those on the Left, and many black commentators, say the comparison is unfair. Not only is ‘blacking up’ deeply racially offensive, they say, but there is the whole history of America’s unhappy race relations to take into account.

For years, under the so-called Jim Crow laws which preserved racial segregation in the South — even deep into the 20th century — a ‘one drop of blood’ rule meant that people with even the smallest trace of black ancestry were legally considered black.

For many, this was catastrophic. But according to academics, this has also established a tradition whereby pretty much any American can say they are black and not be challenged.

Indeed, those who have leapt to Rachel Dolezal’s defence say that if she wants to say she is black, why should anyone deny her that? The problem is that one click of the mouse in the internet age provides pictures of her as a young freckle-faced blonde girl, making a mockery of it all.

‘I wonder what race Rachel would become if she got stopped by the police?’ the — genuinely — black woman author Terry McMillan mused waspishly on Twitter. Unfortunately, one suspects, Miss Dolezal would seize on any mistreatment by the police as further proof of her noble struggle as an oppressed black woman.

 

Damn.:smt103

The NAACP is going to have no choice except to remove her, for the sake of credibility of their organization.

It still sucks she was outed by her own family, but that's life when you choose to live a lie.

I really hope she doesn't do something harmful to herself. Her world is about to implode in an a very ugly way out in public for everyone to see.

I'd really love to hear the opinions of Ms. Dolezal's classmates who knew her at Howard.

She was so self-righteous about her Blackness.lol

Will she continue to live is as a Black woman or not??

 

You gotta admire the power of WW juice. TDK the self proclaimed leader of the WWBM Panther group and hard core Civil right activist Czar of WWBM since 2009, but in close door New york is a freak that allow some random white chick to call him a Ni..er while he is pulling her hair & spanking that juicy white ass Gotta admire the pussy power, respect WW, lol

 

Who cares if she's black, brown, white or purple? She apparently has been a stellar President of their local organization and is well liked. He who is without sin cast the first stone.... Leave her be and let her be black if she wants to be black... Most teenagers who are white, asian, latino and the like all pretend that they are black when they idolize their favorite black gangster rapper but they grow out of it, but she liked being blk and she continued to live her life as blk woman, So, what's the big deal?.... It's a non issue. "racial identity" like "gender identity" it should be fluid and something that the individual can pick and choose to suit their personal whim. In fact, I would argue that it picking your race is even more valid that picking your gender since we all originated from the same region and probably all have common genes. I for one am going to start identifying as chianese since I can document that I have ancestor who spoke a mandarin, N? h?o my brothers and sisters, lol....

 

She suppose to doing a sit down interview giving her official story today or tommorow.

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She just quit,, she will face the shit storm hold on and wait for the next news break till the media starts jamming mics in other people faces

 

i wonder how long before she is white,blonde and disappears into the masses. If i were her I would be packing my bags and leaving spokane...

 

It's not that people care she is identify as black..it's the deceitfulness. The lengths she went to with the deceit. Why not say, l no longer want to be white..like Bruce did.

You can't have a pathological liar at the help of the NAACP.
You can't have that person sabotage other people's careers.
You can't have her lie about her racism experiences growing up black,
Finally, you can't have a WHITE person in blackface false reporting 9 hate crimes against her. Not one led to a suspect, but her.

 

You ain't lying, but I really don't think she had ill intentions the lie just going and going and she couldn't stop that snow ball after awhile she put that way in the back of her mind turned into a sista

 

Unlike you, she's not a coward and stands by what she believes in. Its the reason why she was appointed a leader while your stuck in middle management.

 

SHe just resigned from her position as president of the Spokane NAACP.:|

 

That sucks. She probably has a mental illness. Doesn't mean she is a bad person.

 

how do i not stand by what i believe in? and what does that have to do with my employment? advancement is tough when you are a single mom...my son came first for me and i didn't leave him home alone...i'm not stuck at all if anything i hope to retire early travel and enjoy life...have a nice day north and by the way i just reported you again go away troubled one

 

You cats do know this is not a isolated story.

There might be hundreds or thousands of whites out there doing the same thing.....or get inspired too.

Hey.....those escaped prisoners from NY might have seen this story and disguised themselves as black men. They could hide anywhere right in front of police.

Or........a black male gets shot this summer by a racist cop..........and we discover the black male is a white boy.

That will be a mind fuck!

 

She could just hate being White. Fact is though, she is white..sure she can play the role of being black - very well actually - but you can't change your genes.

Suffice to say, by accepting her declaration that she is Black, there is no longer race in this country. White is black is Asian and any sub categories. No more man, woman either..Who you identify as...that's what you are. Race or gender is history. Let's do this.

 

But really, if genealogy studies prove we ALL have African DNA in our blood since homosexual Sapiens originally evolved in Tanzania, can't anyone make a claim they're partially Black???

And gender is different from sex(organs and reproductive capability).


It makes just about as much sense as saying if ANYONE in your family was Black, even if it was over 100 years ago, you too are African American.:smt017