Yes. I knew it had to have been done. Maybe it's just her performance art version of Soul Man.
White civil rights activist pretending to be black...
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Yes. I knew it had to have been done. Maybe it's just her performance art version of Soul Man.
No.
How long has she being doing this. Did she do this when she was at Howard? It also seems she used to work as a hair dresser. There is a bunch of serious issues here but, I find this pretty hilarious. Also unbelievable trolling from transphobic trolls they came up with the transracial terms within minutes of this story breaking.
I'm identifying as Asian for the rest of the month
If my wife had retained her first husband's Mexican surname she would still be in TV today. She should have played up her Cherokee blood too.
"I sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of soaring over the oilfields dropping hot sticky loads on disgusting foreigners. People say to me that a person being a helicopter is Impossible and I’m fecking retarded but I don’t care, I’m beautiful. I’m having a plastic surgeon install rotary blades, 30 mm cannons and AMG-114 Hellfire missiles on my body. From now on I want you guys to call me “Apache” and respect my right to kill from above and kill needlessly. If you can’t accept me you’re a heliphobe and need to check your vehicle privilege. Thank you for being so understanding."
Worth noting. I have had a few African American history instructors who were white. The NAACP has had a long history of accepting white members(many of the founders were white) and there is plenty in leadership positions.Plenty of white people go to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. She could have accomplished everything she has accomplished without doing this.
We had a mental lass who used to work here who claimed to be black, quite vocally too. She was actually Scottish but with a Moroccan dad and was slightly off-white. Even the black staff here laughed when she said loudly 'yes but I'm black and I have to deal with whatever'...She was an attention whore more than anything.
How come no-one is bothered that the NAACP has the word 'colored' (sic) in its name?
It was founded in 1909. That was the acceptable term back then.
That whole thing is a fecking minefield.
I used 'oriental' when I first came here and got told off for it.
Yikes
http://jezebel.com/9-tweets-from-rachel-dolezal-that-will-really-make-you-1710836360
She really went for broke.
http://jezebel.com/9-tweets-from-rachel-dolezal-that-will-really-make-you-1710836360
She really went for broke.
Once you go black..
She seems like a fantasist and a bit of an attention seeker.
How are you supposed to call someone from Orient?
Asian apparently. But for me, that's Indians, Pakistanis etc.
Reminds me of...
I think this is kind of great in a way. To be able to create a whole new identity from scratch is pretty interesting. We are all self manufactured fantasist to one degree or another.
I guess when you start becoming a spokesman and your identity starts affecting other people negatively then it becomes problematic. Not to mention the possibly fake bomb threats.
I guess when you start becoming a spokesman and your identity starts affecting other people negatively then it becomes problematic. Not to mention the possibly fake bomb threats.
My bro-in-law has a blonde white mum and a French Moroccan Jewish dad. He's white, dad is quite dark-skinned. My sister and I pointed out that instead of marking his ethnicity as 'white' and religion as 'none' on those work ethnicity forms, he could actually quite legitimately be 'African other' and 'Jewish' (he was brought up as a Jew).
He now has a cool ethnic identity and does think of himself a little differently!
He could just say he's mixed race, its what I put down.
TBF I've known a couple of people with a black or mixed race parent who look caucasian. But this is ridiculous, she's just wearing fake tan
I knowTBF I've known a couple of people with a black or mixed race parent who look caucasian. But this is ridiculous, she's just wearing fake tan
. How did she even fool them, I mean its obvious!We share 96% of our genes with chimpanzees, so...
Really the point is that your identity is not really governed by your genes or by your body, it's governed by your upbringing (which is where body-image becomes a factor). To give an example where trans-racialism could actually very easily be a thing: a black kid who was adopted by white parents and grew up surrounded by white people (who somehow didn't treat him differently). This kid would identify as "white" in every way, despite their skin colour. Race is something that doesn't really exist on a genetic level - what matters is culture, and culture is definitely something you can adopt.
(Not to say that this person isn't crazy/doing it all for the wrong reasons of course...)
I dare say being trans is still pretty taboo to the vast majority of the West, let alone the wider world.
On your main point - I doubt it. On the whole, both majority and minority populations, want to live in a world where race is irrelevant (in the West at least, I don't know enough about views on race in other cultures). The difference with gender is that the vast majority think it does and should mean something, though there is obviously huge disagreement on what it does/should mean.
She's only doing it to get away with having a big arse.
That's what I said, in my second post.
Yeah only the first sentence was really directed at you.
I'm white but legally considered American Indian in Canada, this woman doesn't have a clue what it's like.
Shut it, Tonto.
I don't think they have that as an option. It's very specific these days, in the public sector.
Do you live in a reservation?
How?
I did for a couple of years before I went to university. My folks still do.
You could open up a casino.
I work for a bank. I think the money's better.
TBF I've known a couple of people with a black or mixed race parent who look caucasian. But this is ridiculous, she's just wearing fake tan
Ryan Giggs for one.
I've seen it as one before.
TBF I've known a couple of people with a black or mixed race parent who look caucasian. But this is ridiculous, she's just wearing fake tan
I think there's been a few cases where someone who has one black and one white parent is raised by the white parent and looks 'white'. Sometimes they're not told they're actually mixed until later and up until that point they've just indentified as white their whole lives.
Me too
Weird because several stupid people I know, didn't know that India was part of Asia