White civil rights leader has pretended to be black for years

[MochaSoul]

Yet the discussion has enouraged many to speak out... many voices that are usually ignored. Even if some are still being ignored.

Anyway...a preview...she is now claiming that it's because her parents were restrictive in allowing her express her spiritual connection to 'Blackness/humanness', she worried about who was going to be the link in bringing the adopted Black children into the family...



FB link, sorry...She's going to have her own show before the month is out. Move over Oprah.

Ah, that's just a preview. I did think they'd said "tomorrow" on the interview with Jelani Cobb.

 

[Treacle Toes]

They chose what to them seemed like the more 'sympathetic' interviewers/programmes...I am pretty sure both those hosts ran pieces befor those interviews.

 

[MochaSoul]

Ah, that's just a preview. I did think they'd said "tomorrow" on the interview with Jelani Cobb.

Jelani Cobb who also wrote a piece full of food for thought:

Dolezal’s primary offense lies not in the silly proffering of a false biography but in knowing this ugly history and taking advantage of the reasons that she would, at least among black people, be taken at her word regarding her identity.

Race, in this country and under certain circumstances, functions like a faith, in that the simple profession of membership is sufficient. The most—possibly the sole—democratic element of race in this country lies in this ecumenical approach to blackness. We are not in the business of checking membership cards. In this way, Dolezal’s claim on black identity is of a different order than the hollow declaration of a Hollywood scion or anyone else who opted to be Negro for a season. They can plead ignorance. But Dolezal spent four years at an institution steeped in the delicacies of race. If nothing else, she understands the exact nature of the trust she violated.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/rachel-dolezal-black-like-her

 

[Wilf]

FB link, sorry...She's going to have her own show before the month is out. Move over Oprah.

http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/race-faker-rachel-dolezal-reality-show-agent-publicist/

Rachel recognizes that she is going to need an agent and a publicist, and is going to be hiring a professional team in the next few days...... Dolezal’s “phone has been ringing constantly since the scandal broke, and she truly seems to be enjoying all of the attention,” the insider said. “Going back to her former life just isn’t an option.”

 

[Treacle Toes]

The land of opportunity...the land of the free...

No, wait.

 

[Wilf]

The land of opportunity...the land of the free...

No, wait.

All we've got is Bono.

 

[Lurdan]

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about eh.

Mind you if this really is 'a star is born' moment I'm going to be blaming some of the people giving her the free publicity

 

[Wilf]

And every fuckin penny she makes will be ploughed right back into the naacp, every penny.

 

[Wilf]

Must admit, I didn't see her having the brass neck to cancel the naacp meeting off her own bat, but apart from that every bit of the last couple of days has been so choreographed and predictable. What's next then, when she gets her 'team' in place? Contract with one of the networks? Biopic? Hair and Make Up with Rachel Dolezal? Anything really, Americans are not that worried by ongoing legal cases are they?

 

[MochaSoul]

Maybe giving her enough rope to hang herself is the better path, if that's what it was.

It's hard to say with a media more steeped on making money than anything else. In that sense they could b planning on milking her for months regardless of how the whole episode harms the fight against racism. I mean, it's not like all of a sudden people will realise race doesn't matter and act accordingly.

 

[kebabking]

is it too late to open a book on a Presidential run?

 

[Wilf]

is it too late to open a book on a Presidential run?

The gold standard, the holy grail, will be "Caitlyn Jenner in Conversation with Rachel Dolezal". The networks will have sent a thousand agents and lawyers to secure this.

 

[8ball]

It's hard to say with a media more steeped on making money than anything else. In that sense they could b planning on milking her for months regardless of how the whole episode harms the fight against racism. I mean, it's not like all of a sudden people will realise race doesn't matter and act accordingly.

Depressing thought.

 

[Favelado]

Hollywood will revisit this story at some point I'd imagine.

 

[MochaSoul]

Hollywood will revisit this story at some point I'd imagine.

"A Whiter Shade of Black"

 

[Wilf]

Hollywood will revisit this story at some point I'd imagine.

 

[Athos]

'Black Face/off'

 

[Wilf]

Unforgiven.

 

[Orang Utan]

Hollywood will revisit this story at some point I'd imagine.

angelina jolie has kinda done it already

 

[MochaSoul]

'Black Face/off'

"The Woman in Black"

 

[Athos]

'Transpotting'

 

[Wilf]

My Fair Lady.

 

[MochaSoul]

My Fair Lady.

"Black or White" Michael Jackson feat Rachel Dolezal

 

[Wilf]

The non-African Queen.

 

[Athos]

(Not) Black Narcissus

 

[Lurdan]

 

[Athos]

Snow White

 

[tufty79]

Rachel tension.

 

[equationgirl]

Fifty shades of black.

 

[MochaSoul]

Black Mask