At first I saw the photo's and it was like, there are black women with colored eyes/fair skin. But read the article and all this information comes out and it's just WOW.

lol I was just about to post this.

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I don't understand why she just couldn't have pulled a Teena Marie and be a white woman down for the struggle.

On the other hand, I was really uncomfortable with the way that reporter was questioning her.

Just go to the last 30 seconds of this video Raw interview with Rachel Dolezal

"are your parents white?" Well mine are, and I'm not white, so fuck you, dude.

That was kinda shitty way to address it for sure. And honestly what did that have to do with the issue of supposedly being mailed harmful shit?

If she really is white though, she is such a shitty human being for having done this

What is Compulsive Lying Disorder? | Compulsive Lying Disorder

Chandra how is there no comparison? What if she feels like a black woman trapped in a white woman?

Race is a social construct, not a biological one. Gender is also a social construct. So, I can see the rationale some people are adopting to defend her actions. However, I don't think that kind of fluidity can

make much sense. It feels like an appropriation - and also like a mental illness.

It's super racist

I am black and not offended by her at all. Maybe she is very passionate about being a civil rights leader and feel like she would have more credibility if she was black?

She feels comfortable being black and identifies with being black so what exactly is the problem?

As a white woman she has untold privileges that minorities cannot tap: yet kicks it all to play pretend at being a minority.

How can a person identify as being black when there is no universal black experience?

I don't think their is an official "black" way to feel about this. I am white, I think it was inappropriate, but I think likely due more to delusion than racism.

And some people are so uncomfortable with the concept of guilt induced by their privilege that they play pretend at being a minority in order to feel special because somehow being oppressed makes us so?

The totality and nonsensicality of her lies, so many, so silly some of them, that all makes me think of someone who is mentally ill.

I see brown face all the time with people who try to enter into our communities and this is black face, flat out.

Creating a caricature of racial features that are not static whatsoever, fetishistic and stereotyping a billion people in order to try to pass off as one for monetary and social gain:

A quote from a friend: " that woman went as far as attending a black college and teaching africana studies
thats a long way to go for a mental illness"

she wasnt silent or passive about this, she co-opted the identity of an oppressed minority in order to further her career and social standing.

she wasnt just playing dress up, she was speaking for black women as a black woman about the black experience when she could wash off her makeup and go back to being betty o'mally from omaha.

It's funny she is from Troy, MT. I have been there. It is a SMALL town. I would be surprised there are 1000 people there. There are not many black people in MT. When I lived there, all people could talk about

Well pretending she was black certainly let her feel special and different

Charlie Pride was from MT - you could get the impression that he was the only black person to ever step on MT so.

soil.

I won't deny there's something probably going on with her given her quote about "growing up in a teepee" or whatever bullshit she tried to spin about living as a hunter/gatherer, but you can be mentally ill

and still be a racist. She is likely equal parts both.

Alternatively, her parents living in Troy, MT, have been passing and are speaking up so they do not become identified as black.

But thenthey did supposedly adopt dark skinned sons?

Yeah, having been to Troy, I cannot imagine it as a friendly to African American community. - and maybe their sons are not adopted. The lies could be extensive on either side.

Possibly, the man she claims is her father is dark skinned.

But ofc, he wouldnt be passing by any means then

(assuming she's claiming him as biological father)

Racial interrogation - I don't know if I like it. Look at Mica on Blood, Sweat and Heels. She's black. I can imagine her race being interrogated - unless someone saw her with family.

I'm cynical about all of it. Like I said, I've seen brown face way too much to be anything but super wary

There is something to be said for people who are passing though who do not make themselves the poster child of the non passing experience.

But those are intra-ethnic/intra-racial issues moreso than anything.

Well, I confess to feeling a twinge or two of discomfort when Mica says something is not racist - like when Geneva got arrested. She claimed it was due to racism. Mica said - the cop was not being racist,

and I wondered to myself, how do you know? You will never be automatically suspect to police in the same manner as Geneva is.

Geneva in case you have never seen the show.

I kind of love that show, especially Demetria. These are smart, successful women who can have fun and argue and not look like total assholes.

I mean A Belle In Brooklyn - is on the show

hahaha, yes, I love her so much.

She is by far my favorite.

Yes because hitting your cast-mate over the head is not a total asshole move.

Stiffing a cabby his money and getting arrested and using the race card is probably not an asshole move also.

The cabbie story is the one I am thinking of - and she presented events in the way she perceived them. The facts are in dispute and we don't know them all.

The question of her race "is not as easy as it seems," Dolezal told the Spokane Spokesman-Review.
"We're all from the African continent," she added.

NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal lied about being black: parents

I just can't.

The Dolezals said Rachel married and later divorced a black man. They said after the divorce in 2004 Rachel began identifying differently. She started claiming to be partially African American and the daughter

of bi-racial parents. They said they have noticed her change in physical appearance but do not know how she did so.

she was obsessed with "black culture'

so

racist festishist.

Oh my God

this photo set going around

"which naacp office is this from?"

I can't help myself.

I find this extremely amusing. If she wants to be a black woman fine with me. But she won't get the true experience unless she darkens her skin a lot more

and/or wears a kinky wig. Right now getting the light skinned privileged version of being a black woman. Yeah I know I said that term I hate.

*right now she's

How convenient for her to cosplay being black without the actual consequences of being black. I'm not sure if she is a racist. But, if she isn't, she should really step back and recognize how offensive it is to

lie about this topic.

She doesn't have to lie about her race just to support our cause or to even participate with it.

^ Yeah, that's where I am with it. She's black for fun.

Like the whole point of minorities and victimized people is that they literally cannot change who they are. A black person doesn't change hair and makeup and bam, back to white mode.

it would also be nice if they could stop making white and Caucasian interchangeable in all these articles seeing how they're supposedly so racially conscious and all

TillHapmouche: Exactly

ashasekayi: I think this is not cool - but she does run the risk of the consequence of blackness. As the chair of the NAACP, she is a visible target for hate crimes and claims to have been on the receiving end

though that may also be part of her delusions. Nonetheless, NAACP offices have been hit by arson, harassment, etc. so I would not agree that she is risk-free.

Lol white people being offended at being called "white people" is so dumb.

Then again, they are probably the same people who get mad at black history month and demand "white history month" because the rest of the year isn't that already.