NAACP leader pretended to be black

[JollyRoger]

Didn't Charlie Sheen pretend to be black for a while to get Bree Olson to move in with him?

 

[Leonel]

...but she did co-opt it for personal gain.

Well exclusively for personal gain. I dunno, this whole thing is strange!

 

[Narz]

Didn't Charlie Sheen pretend to be black for a while to get Bree Olson to move in with him?

I would pretend to be just about anything to get Bree Olson to move in with me.

 

[classical_hero]

I just love how the usual suspects are defending her are the same ones who want to divide us according to skin colour. Why do some on the left see skin colour as being important?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Is it possible for someone to identify as another race, much as one can identify as being of another gender?

 

[FriendlyFire]

I am a 16 year old girl working on becoming prom queen, but pretend to be a 40-something male attorney here.

Well you know how bad Republicans are at maths, science, facts and reality. Of course they would mistake a White blonde blue eyed Caucasian for an Black African America.
Just like they think Obama is a Kenyan Muslim.

her Montana birth certificate states she was born to two parents who say they are Caucasian. The parents shared that document and old photos with CNN.

"It's kind of a slap in the face to African-Americans because she doesn't know what it's like to be black," said Ezra Dolezal, whose biological mother was white and father half-black. "She's only been African-American when it benefited her. She hasn't been through all the struggles. She's only been African-American the last few years."

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/13/us/washington-rachel-dolezal-adopted-brother/

And you were against checking long form birth certificate !!!!

 

[JollyRoger]

I just love how the usual suspects are defending her are the same ones who want to divide us according to skin colour. Why do some on the left see skin colour as being important?

I'm certainly not defending her for pulling a Ted Haggard.

 

[Triewd]

I just love how the usual suspects are defending her are the same ones who want to divide us according to skin colour. Why do some on the left see skin colour as being important?

Because it exposes the hypocrisy of the Left - they can't stand that.

Of course objective standards have never been the lefts thing.

 

[JollyRoger]

Nice subjective statement.

 

[Triewd]

Nice subjective statement.

It may be subjective but there are objective truths behind it however, dig deeper.

Example: http://allenbwest.com/2014/12/9-instances-duplicitous-hypocrisy-left-boiling-mad/

 

[JollyRoger]

You'll have to hand over the shovel.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Nice subjective statement.

Pointing fingers in this regard? Well, at least in this case circular non arguments aren't veiled as something else lol.

 

[JollyRoger]

Pointing fingers in this regard?

Just the middle one.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Gwyneth Paltrow should be ashamed of herself:

From A Brief History of Pretending to Be Black

1959: John Howard Griffin

Griffin, a white man, wrote a well-regarded book titled Black Like Me, in which he darkened his skin in order to pose as a black man in the segregated South. Griffin underwent medical procedures—including taking pills, grilling himself under a lamp and rubbing a stain into his body—in order to change the color of his skin.

Here (via The Guardian) is the passage from the book in which he describes seeing himself as “black” for the first time:

“In the flood of light against white tile, the face and shoulders of a stranger,” he writes, “a fierce, bald, very dark Negro glared at me from the glass. He in no way resembled me … I had expected to see myself disguised, but this was something else. I was imprisoned in the flesh of an utter stranger, an unsympathetic one with whom I had no kinship … I looked into the mirror and saw reflected nothing of the white John Griffin’s past. No, the reflections led back to Africa, back to the shanty and the ghetto, back to the fruitless struggles against the mark of blackness.”

Griffin ended up paying a physical toll for writing his book: several years after it was published, he was stopped on the side of a road with a flat tire when a group of white men came upon him and beat him with fists and chains.

 

[gay_Aleks]

I am a educated African from a Congo tribe! Technically, Ethiopian, but hey, all the same? If Gwyneth can be, so can I!

 

[Goodfella]

Gwyneth Paltrow should be ashamed of herself:

Do you really think a symbolic poster to raise awareness for a charity is actually similar to what Rachel Dolezal did or are you joking?

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Just the middle one.

I've actually done that a few times. As they say in Conker's Bad Fur Day, it's "context sensitive".

 

[classical_hero]

Do you really think a symbolic poster to raise awareness for a charity is actually similar to what Rachel Dolezal did or are you joking?

In his mind, yes.

 

[Domen]

Rachel Dolezal is an NAACP leader in Washington, an adjunct professor of Africana studies and part of a commission for minority groups interests in Washington. She appears to be a very light skinned black woman with a black hairstyle. Most people would probably say her race was a bit ambiguous but accept that she had African American ancestry when informed of that.

Well turns out she doesn't. Her parents have come forward and said they are not black

Wait, wait, wait... - did some of her ancestors come from Africa, or were all of them Neanderthals?

If race is a social construct then literally all blacks "pretend to be blacks", not just her.

Obama also pretends to be black - just compare Barack Obama to the truly black side of his family:

Because it exposes the hypocrisy of the Left - they can't stand that.

Of course objective standards have never been the lefts thing.

When Walter Francis White - who was blond, blue-eyed, and had white parents - claimed he was black... :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Francis_White

... nobody in the Left dared to deny him his intrinsic human right to be black, or whatever he wanted:

(...) White had features showing his European ancestry. He emphasized in his autobiography, A Man Called White (p. 3): "I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me." Of his 32 3xgreat-grandparents, five were black and the other 27 were white. All members of his immediate family had fair skin, and his mother Madeline was also blue-eyed and blonde.[5] (...)

He could even claim being an Ancient Macedonian!

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Edit:

My advice for her - take a DNA test. Even Eskimos score up to a few % Sub-Saharan African in them.

And nobody will say she isn't at least part black.

she had African American ancestry

You can be an American of African ancestry and be non-black. Just to mention North Africa, Boers, etc.

Boers live in South Africa since the 1600s.

 

[Yeekim]

If race is a social construct then literally all blacks "pretend to be blacks", not just her.

Damn, I came here to post that!