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too much psychoanalysis? look, she’s been thrust into the spotlight and we’re making educated comments here, not really slagging her off. like i said, not sure if i agree with her or not because it’s a tricky situation. god forbid anyone comments on something that is public knowledge haina southie? 
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I identify as 1974 Honda Ct 70 TRAIL.
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Peace sweefs
Even African-Americans can’t truly understand what it means to be African. They were ultimately deprived of it. What she identifies herself to be is her business. It should not be a concern and we should not view that as being a disturbed psychological disposition. From her own words it is possible to glean that she does not identify as white and that may be due to certain doors being closed in her social/professional circles. Given her strong character - I guess she would not concede as being lesser than white - so she would naturally embrace her racial uniqueness and not view it as a handicap. This thought could potentially still lead to her “whiteness” being the cause of that ego - hence she may have realised an inherent flaw in considering herself as “coloured” - which would only mean that to truly elevate the “blackness” in her is to give it full focus. Thus it would cause her to step down from NAACP.
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Something about forest from the trees. Strike that last sentence if you must. Rest of the post is good to go.
Why the rolleyes sweefs
Re read the original post. Had no problems with it. Had no problems with other posts also.
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Not quite. We can form our opinions based on what is out there. In my opinion, her parents are ashwipes - and that is a judgment based on their beating up on their daughter who has made a life choice.
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Perfect explanation. It seems strange though, she should be happy with what God made her, but I’m not going to judge her since it is her life. I have seen many Caucasian people strongly wish they were Asian as they have a love for anime and the Asian life style so it isn’t such as new thing of adopting another ethnicity.
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Didn’t her parents adopt an African American boy? Was that before or after she started “identifying” as black?
Could it be that she’s subconsciously looking for her parents’ attention and approval?
I caught the tail end of an interview on this matter last night…the person was African American and she was saying that Dolezal may have seen the “distinct advantage of being at the top of the “black hierarchy” since she would appear as a clear-skinned, African American and therefore rank higher than the darker-skinned ones, rather than an average white person”. Was an interesting observation.
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Didn’t her parents say the child she’s saying is hers is actually her adoptive brother?
Her parents have adopted 4 African-American children.
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Identifying yourself as a certain ethnicity or culture is a whole lot different than calling yourself that. An Asian can never ever pass off as being black, even if he’s grown up in the middle of Jamaica. This lady wrote in her forms that she’s black. She’s dyed and permed her hair to pass off as black, she’s tanned herself to look like someone from a mixed heritage. What she’s done is make a mockery of those people who are genuinely from a mixed ethnicity, who have struggled their entire lives because they feel like they don’t belong to either of their heritages, ie they don’t feel black, and they don’t feel white, because maybe, just maybe, both sides of who that person is make that person feel like they don’t belong. This lady is a white person, with freckles, with long straight blond hair, with no trace of African blood in her, and yet she fooled the entire community by calling herself as half black.
You can turn around your gender, and you can go from a woman to a man, and vice versa. But you can’t turn from a white man into a black woman, unless you’re from Tropic Thunder universe.
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she can feel as black as she wants to and she can impersonate black people as much as she wants to…what she should be held accountable for is deception.
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I agree. But the thing is, when a black person lightens his or her skin, they’re called out for it, by not only people in their community, but also the whole world as general. It’s said they’re trying to be white, who are they fooling and are they kidding themselves? (Same probably goes for brown people and Asian people, case in point the tons of skin bleaching products and the constant debate that rages on whether the ads for these products are ethical or not as well as how common plastic surgery is among the S. Korean population, to appear more Caucasian). So how come it’s ok for her to pretend to be black, to dye her skin, her hair to be black, and have people actually support her for being transracial and it be ok to impersonate a race? How is this any different from black-face makeup, or pulling the eyes at the corners to appear Asian?
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IMO, the bigger issue is culture versus race. Where does one end and another begin? I think each of us can claim any cultural element we want, because culture is a created concept and its a lot more difficult to construct and protect boundaries around culture. But race - if race is biological/physiological (as some would argue gender is as well) - then a philosophical as well as biological question is: how is it possible to cross racial boundaries and identities?
And for those condemning her parents, why shouldn’t her parents tell the truth that their child was born to two Caucasian parents? Oh wait, her parents should disavow their racial identity to suit their daughter. It’s better for the parents to lie about themselves to allow their daughter to perpetuate her version of reality
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Really? I didn’t know that. I know that she became the legal guardian for one of her adopted siblings and he now considers her to be his mom, but I thought (and maybe mistakenly) that her son was her biological child with her ex-husband.
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So more deception…
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From what I’ve read, her parents have said her son’s her brother, I am not sure about the legal guardian bit, haven’t come across that yet, and I’m not sure if she had any children with her ex-husband. "]I met Rachel Dolezal - and never doubted her black roots - BBC News](I met Rachel Dolezal - and never doubted her black roots - BBC News)] Picture of her and her family, including her adoptive siblings Spokane NAACP president Rachel Dolezal
This is interesting here, just came across this:
Race activist Rachel Dolezal: ‘I identify as black’ - BBC News
Shameful, and honestly, offensive for calling herself black.
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They say you are what you eat, therefore I identify as a chicken wing
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just call me “short ribs”
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The parents are scum because she did nothing to them. No parent does that to their child. Insert rolleyes - that seems to be quite popular in this thread.
As for charges of deception, who is being deceived? She has the right to live her way. How is living as a black person advantageous - even if she is at the top of the black ladder?
Another rolleyes insertion.
Re blacks lightening skin being made fun of - ergo she should also be mocked - two wrongs don’t make a right. People should be free to lighten darken blonden bleachen or whateveren to whicheveen part of their body and soul. And not be mockeden.
Insert 3rd and final rollseyes.
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Yes, she has the right to live her life as she chooses, in whatever way…hell, she can call herself Mother India for all I care…what she does NOT have the right to do is lie on a government form/document and check the box for “African American” when she is not born black. Plain and simple.
I couldn’t care less about how someone chooses to “identify” and live their life, especially when it had no affect whatsoever on my own, however, I do think it’s wrong to lie/misrepresent on something that could potentially effect others..such as a financial aid doc, job application, census count etc.