#rachel dolezal
America’s Hypocrisy…
I don’t understand how someone can tell you, “I’m a woman trapped in a man’s body,” but if I tell you, “I’m a black person in a white person’s body,” why is one easier to believe than the other one if I say Caitlyn Jenner is crazy for wanting to be a woman, they would call me transphobic. Immediately! “Oh, he’s transphobic.” So who is anyone to say that Rachel is crazy for wanting to be a black woman? I’m not even defending Rachel. I’m defending everybody’s right to be whatever is they want to be- Charlamange
**piegelife does Not support either but does find Americas contradicting take on things a tad flawed**
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- Zodiac posts
- The Brady Bunch memes
- Take a closer look at that snout!
- Left shark
- Inappropriate audition songs
- The blue/black white/gold dress
- No one can understand Iggy Azalea’s rapping
- April Fool’s Coppy
- Sausage song
- Kylie Jenner Challenge
- Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams
- Taylor Swift was a big deal
- Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
- Rachel Dolezal
- Hoe don’t do it…oh my god.
- Minions overload
- Donald Trump running for president
- WHAT ARE THOOOOOOSE
- Rare Pepe
- Stuffing breadsticks in your purse
- Berenstein vs. Berenstain Bears
- Shia LaBeouf “Just Do It”
- Poot Lovato
- Okay…that sounds fake but okay.
- Netflix and Chill
- John Cena
- Why you always lying?
- Miley, what’s good?
- Hotline Bling
- Star Wars
- 2015 in a nutshell
There’s a post going around that purports to show tweets by Rachel Dolezal talking about “trans racialism,” but seemingly nobody checked Twitter to see that the account in question was only created 23 hours ago (as of 6/13), so there’s like a 99% chance it’s satire. Do two minutes of investigation before you get outraged; I don’t think that’s a lot to ask.
The ironic thing about what Rachel Dolezal is doing, is that it takes an extreme amount of white empathyless-ness and privilege to justify the blantant theft of the narratives and emotional labour of black women. To do what she has done takes a curiosity and ego that can only be born out of whiteness. As does the disregard and disrespect to follow through with that curiosity and ego.
Because let’s be honest, only white people are really this messed up. Even the most hard, ball is life, “n” word dropping, 3rd generation suburban Chinese boys aren’t claiming to actually be black. They are really racist, and approporiative, sure. But there is a world of difference in both impact and intent between saying “lol I’m blacker than you” and “I am black and therefore a trustworthy source on issues of Blackness.” I’ve seen Asian people do some really racist things, but this will never be one of them.
And on the other end of the spectrum you have people who are racially ambiguous enough to be on the receiving end of all sorts of different types of racism. How’s that for diversity? It is not uncommon for darker skinned Southeast Asians to be read as Mexican and be subject to stereotypes and slurs normally aimed at Mexican people. Yet despite literally experiencing Mexican experiences none of them claim to be Mexicans. If anything, it serves to strengthen bonds of allyships between these groups.
Dolezal doesn’t care about black people. She only cares about satisfying her obsession with her perception of blackness.
Someone commenting on Dlisted has the best analysis of the Rachel Dolezal mess that I’ve seen.
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June 16, 2015
This past weekend the world took to social media to dissect the events surrounding Rachel Dolezal, the former president of Spokane’s NAACP chapter who came under heavy scrutiny for falsely representing herself as black. As part of this real-time discussion, the term transracial is being co-opted to describe Dolezal identifying as black despite being born white.
As members of the adoption community — particularly those of us who identify as transracial adoptees — we are deeply alarmed by the gross mischaracterization of this term. We find the misuse of “transracial,” describing the phenomenon of a white woman assuming perceived markers of “blackness” in order to pass as “black,” to be erroneous, ahistorical, and dangerous.
Transracial is a term that has long since been defined as the adoption of a child that is of a different race than the adoptive parents. The term most often refers to children of color adopted by white families in the Global North, and has been extensively examined and documented for more than 50 years by academics and members of the adoption triad: adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents.
Dolezal and others have perpetuated the false notion that a person can simply choose to identify as a different race or ethnicity. As extensive evidence-based research and first-person narratives have shown, we do not live in a so-called “post-racial society.” Damaging forces like racism make it virtually impossible for those with black or brown bodies to simply “put on” or “take off” race in the same or similar manner that Dolezal has employed. For transracial adoptees, navigating and negotiating the racism in our families, schools, and communities is a regular and compulsory part of our lives.
We also join others who have raised concerns about the misappropriation of the word “trans,” and the analogy made between Dolezal’s deception and the experiences of transgender people. For transgender people who have struggled to live their truths in the face of horrific violence and discrimination, we reject this flawed comparison and find it to be irresponsible and offensive.
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The African Diaspora Through 99 & The 2000’s Podcast: EP 1
At Home with Rachel Dolezal
If any woman defined 2015, it’s Rachel Dolezal. Since her parents outed her as biologically Caucasian in June, Rachel has been the center of debates about race, Black Lives Matter, trans women, public shaming, identity politics, and social constructionism. Along with Broadly’s exclusive interviews with Rachel about her childhood on an anti-abortion homestead and the lifelong evolution of her identity, Rachel took us on a tour of her home in Spokane, WA. See more photos, here.
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“The only role for which actresses of my type were considered suitable was for the stereotypical part of a “black who is passing for white.” When a role of this kind became available, my phone would ring off the hook as I was called by every agent in town. The dirty Joker in the deck was that these roles always ended up being handed to Caucasians. I was interviewed for a movie called “I Passed for White.” The role was given to the white Sandra Wilde. I was seen about the remake of Imitation of Life. Ross Hunter, the film’s producer, pronounced me a stunning clone of Loretta Young and promptly cast the white Susan Kohner. In both cases I was merely looked at, not even auditioned. (The list of white actresses who had co-opted roles written for light-skinned black women included Jeanne Crain, Yvonne De Carlo, Ingrid Bergman, and Ava Gardner.) ~ Ellen Holly, best known for playing “Carla Gray” on “One Life to Live” from her 1996 autobiography, “One Life: The Autobiography of an African American Actress.”
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Like Rachel Dolezal, ace inclusionists predictably don’t understand healthy boundaries or consent.
