White civil rights leader has pretended to be black for years

[trashpony]

This is really odd: Rachel Dolezal’s father, Larry Dolezal, said that he and her mother are both white.

“She’s our birth daughter and we’re both of European descent,” he said, adding, “we’re puzzled and it’s very sad.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoer...disguised-herself-as-black-for-yea#.vtXDwZXEe

 

[Manter]

V odd indeed.

Apart from anything else I wonder why they said nothing for years then pop up now

 

[Belushi]

I saw about this on facebook earlier, she'd also pretended to have had cancer.

 

[Belushi]

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[butchersapron]

V odd indeed.

Apart from anything else I wonder why they said nothing for years then pop up now

They've been estranged for decades and live in a different (though neighbouring) state, so they probably didn't know.

 

[Geri]

What is the NAACP?

 

[butchersapron]

National Association for the Advancement of Carrot People

 

[Fozzie Bear]

An interesting conundrum for privilege/intersectionality people.

 

[winifred]

Puts new meaning to the phrase, "once you go black, you never go back".

 

[Pickman's model]

how peculiar.

 

[Pickman's model]

An interesting conundrum for privilege/intersectionality people.

only a claponista could calculate her privilege

 

[Citizen66]

Was she blacking up then?

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

The politically-correct wiberal in me has no idea how to respond to this story. It's fucking hilarious but it's also not. Am I allowed to find this funny? Or would it be offensive to do so? It is funny though, isn't it?

The bingo wheel of privilege and oppression must be spinning out of control at the moment. Can someone from ProleDem please formulate an official line?

Obligatory meme:

 

[Belushi]

tbh I've been pretending for years to be much more welsh on here than I am irl

 

[Citizen66]

National Association for the Advancement of Carrot People

She should have oranged up.

 

[Pickman's model]

tbh I've been pretending for years to be much more welsh on here than I am irl

yeh i noticed you used to affect the welsh spelling of your name, ap llbellushi

 

[Orang Utan]

tbh I've been pretending for years to be much more welsh on here than I am irl

I've been pretending to be a middle class ginger, I'm really a docker from Tilbury. Bald as a coot, voted UKIP and hate dance music.

 

[Celyn]

I'm suddenly remembering one of Armistead Maupin's books in which a white model decided she would pretend to be black.

Very strange of this woman. If I were black, I think I'd be pretty annoyed about someone deciding to be black and pretending to be a victim of racial discrimination when there are plenty of people genuinely suffering disadvantage, police bias etc.

 

[Celyn]

She should have oranged up.

Oh no! There would have be be bloodthirsty songs and wearing of sashes borrowed from fathers.

 

[Idris2002]

 

[Fez909]

I'm suddenly remembering one of Armistead Maupin's books in which a white model decided she would pretend to be black.

Very strange of this woman. If I were black, I think I'd be pretty annoyed about someone deciding to be black and pretending to be a victim of racial discrimination when there are plenty of people genuinely suffering disadvantage, police bias etc.

Supposing everyone thought she was black. And she was treated differently for it. Has she experienced racial discrimination? I'd say yes.

 

[Celyn]

Hmm, OK, I haven't, to be honest, read up about her, so my post was just sort of thinking out loud. I still don't think I'd be happy at someone sort of playing at being part of a victimised group.

 

[trashpony]

Supposing everyone thought she was black. And she was treated differently for it. Has she experienced racial discrimination? I'd say yes.

As a leader of the NAACP, she's fundamentally deceiving the people she's supposed to be representing though

 

[Orang Utan]

Has anyone seen this godawful piece of claptrap?
Soul Man
http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt0091991/

 

[Treacle Toes]

Apart from WHY?

I think this story absolutely shows up the 'one drop rule' for what it is, a nonsense. I will go further too and say anyone that qualifys the ethnicity of anyone by the amount of 'Black' blood they have is part of the problem, whether that be because they are racist or need to check their internalised racism.


Also, I have family members that look as 'European' as she does. Her phenotype is not unusal in mixed ethnicity families.

 

[frogwoman]

Its utterly mad. This is basically blacking up

 

[Thimble Queen]

I'm suddenly remembering one of Armistead Maupin's books in which a white model decided she would pretend to be black.

Very strange of this woman. If I were black, I think I'd be pretty annoyed about someone deciding to be black and pretending to be a victim of racial discrimination when there are plenty of people genuinely suffering disadvantage, police bias etc.

Agree. I feel quite uncomfortable also bc by pretending be black and being in that role she's actually erasing the voices of black women in a situation where black women are already marginalised.

 

[Belushi]

Has anyone seen this godawful piece of claptrap?
Soul Man
http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt0091991/

Yes! It was quite a big film at the time

 

[Thimble Queen]

Wtf is all the stuff about having lived with a hunter gatherer family in a tipi. That's proper fucking weird.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Its utterly mad. This is basically blacking up

I don't think it is froggy but it doesn't sit right obviously because of the deception. It will be interesting to see what discussions emerge from this IMO about the work she has done.