Patteran
A nowadays excuse
Odd as in unusual or unexpected, a neologism I'd never seen before - 'Race is the witchcraft our times'. Thanks for the upload - another on the list.
White civil rights leader has pretended to be black for years
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Odd as in unusual or unexpected, a neologism I'd never seen before - 'Race is the witchcraft our times'. Thanks for the upload - another on the list.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Racecraft is a good word, and that article is spot on.
But even though our racial categories are socially constructed, that still doesn't give us room as individuals to choose whichever category we like - they're still socially (ie collectively) constructed, not individually constructed.
And in this case, butchers is right. She's just a great big liar. In that vid, you can smell the smoke from her flaming pants.
But even though our racial categories are socially constructed, that still doesn't give us room as individuals to choose whichever category we like - they're still socially (ie collectively) constructed, not individually constructed.
And in this case, butchers is right. She's just a great big liar. In that vid, you can smell the smoke from her flaming pants.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
The wider consequences are uncertain, except that they're certain to be bad.
Athos
Well-Known Member
No. Which is why I conceded to C66 that he had a fair point and that this is all rather speculative.
It's only a matter of time until someone does, though.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Did she actually take anyone's voice away?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Yes
Fullstop.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
She appropriated someone else's story for the sake of her self-image - I don't know enough of the detail to know what she then did with that.
Edit: you'd expect an effective civil rights leader to be amplifying and articulating the experiences of others, not silencing them (I don't know enough about her reputation to say whether she did that effectively until now). I don't like the idea that you create a given number of posts and you've then ticked the 'listening to black women' box - smacks of bean counter equality appeasement.
I see the main harms as being the inauthenticity of what she did and the way it feeds into right-wing 'crying racism where there is none' tropes, and also the inevitable conflation people will make between a history of oppression and a lifestyle choice.
She may have been ineffective due to the fakeness of her identity and experience, of course, but you wouldn't want someone ineffective in the post anyway.
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MochaSoul
It's being enslaved of your own free will
Plenty already do except they don't talk about thei ulterior motives in doing it. There's even a term for it. Appropriation.
MochaSoul
It's being enslaved of your own free will
Thank you and you're welcome. Only sharing my own titbits. I've learnt quite a lot from you guys lurking over the years so it's nice to give something back.
MochaSoul
It's being enslaved of your own free will
Where to start? She faked her ethnicity at Howard University in order to get a grant for her high ed diploma which she then used to teach at an African Studies department of another uni and so on, and rise and shine as an NAACP spokesperson while presenting herself as someone living the terror of death threats for reasons of her [fake] ethnicity.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Identity is (according to the majority of extant social science and psychological research) partly based on external markers, partly on lived experience, and partly on the individual interpellating with facets of identity that appeal to that individual (i.e."feelings").
Probably not. As it is, she used the black identity she took on in a way that personally benefited her. IMO she needs to make some sort of restitution for that.
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
Yeah this.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I didn't know what word to use.
Role-playing?
8ball
Decolonise colons!
I didn't see the bit about faking her ethnicity for a grant (which is obviously fraudulent), but I'm not sure which point you're trying to address.
The deceit itself does harm, but in terms of advocacy work she seemed to be getting a measured amount of back-up according to the CNN article (I was Googling around looking for background since I have suspicions about Buzzfeed's status as a quality journalism source at times).
NAACP said:
That doesn't mean they stand behind everything she is alleged to have done, obv.
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ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Because it's not possible to transition from one "race" to another, even if you've actually managed to arrive at an agreed definition of "race". The only way people can metaphorically transition is through changing the meaning(s) attached to membership of a particular "race" so that it gains "acceptability. I once again call peoples' attention to Noel Ignatieff's "How the Irish Became White" (America-centric, but a good example of changed meanings driving metaphorical transition).
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
She deprived a black student of a scholarship at the very least. That strikes me as taking someone's voice away.
MochaSoul
It's being enslaved of your own free will
Well... read it again then
Yes. The voice of the genuine black woman who should have been in the position she acquired fraudulently.
Panda got there first.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
I'm talking about the Buzzfeed's article - were you referring to something else?
MochaSoul
It's being enslaved of your own free will
Nope, just that little summary. I thought it was quite succinct really.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
it must take an enormous amount of front to carry on such a sham, even so far as to be head of the NAACP.
Reminds me of that conman they made a film out of, the one who posed as airline pilot and all sorts.
Reminds me of that conman they made a film out of, the one who posed as airline pilot and all sorts.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Are you quoting yourself to back up Your own claim, or am I being uncharitable here?
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MochaSoul
It's being enslaved of your own free will
She certainly stole the show the very week a campaign is launched to highlight black women victims of police violence in the US (we do hear about the men and the boys but not the women or the girls).
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
She wasn't head of the naacp - she was like the head of tring naacp.
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