http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/12/spokane-naacp-president-rachel-dolezal-may-be-white/

I don't even know what's real anymore...

6/12/2015 7:12:05 AM

lolwut

6/12/2015 7:24:14 AM

lolwut

[Edited on June 12, 2015 at 7:24 AM. Reason : like a reverse Sammy Sosa]

6/12/2015 7:24:14 AM

"I feel like a black woman, when I look in the mirror I see a black woman. I'm going to leave for a few years and re-enter the kids lives as Aunt Latoya"

6/12/2015 7:33:10 AM

^ my thought when I saw the thread title

6/12/2015 7:38:17 AM

She has probably done more for black people than a lot of her critics, regardless of her race.


The way i see it, she may have misrepresented herself, which was wrong. But her misrepresentation seems to be rooted in a very genuine place, i.e., black adopted family members, parents that seemingly welcomed diversity, a general love of the culture, art, etc...



The whole thing seems rather silly if one is to take a step back, and realize race is a human social construct, which someone people choose not to acknowledge.

6/12/2015 8:41:00 AM

Quote :

"The way i see it, she may have misrepresented herself, which was wrong. But her misrepresentation seems to be rooted in a very genuine place, i.e., black adopted family members, parents that seemingly welcomed diversity, a general love of the culture, art, etc... "

Eh -- I watched the parents' segment on the Today show this morning, and they thought their daughter was pretty messed up. Reiterated over and over how they were Scandinavian, Czech and German (i think) descent. They brought pictures of her as a very, very white teenager, and how she's always been very confused.

But I agree that it shouldn't lessen what she's done in her role, and if it's been for the better of society, then great. She probably shouldn't have lied on her application, but it wouldn't be the first time that people have lied about their race on a job application to gain an advantage.

6/12/2015 8:45:51 AM

6/12/2015 8:51:51 AM

She looks like a fat Iggy Azalea.

6/12/2015 8:53:14 AM

Quote :

"“It is very disturbing that she has become so dishonest,” Dolezal’s mother, Ruthanne Dolezal, told the Idaho newspaper."

Quote :

"Her parents also alleged that the 37-year-old spun a much wider web of warped lies about her background. A black man who Dolezal has publicly claimed to be her son is in fact her adopted brother, they said — a fact Dolezal confirmed to the paper. Dolezal also lied about growing up in a teepee, hunting for her own food with bows and arrows, being abused by a stepfather and once living in South Africa, her parents said. Some of her family members did live in South Africa for four years, but “Rachel did not even ever visit us there,” her mom said. Dolezal initially maintained that she is African-American, telling the Coeur d'Alene Press: "They can DNA test me if they want to.""

6/12/2015 8:56:42 AM

If she wanted to go to Howard, she may have been able to get a minority scholarship by saying she was white.

6/12/2015 9:00:13 AM

Q: Do you have some black in you?

*has sex with black guy*

A: Yes

6/12/2015 9:08:08 AM

What I find interesting is the response of the NAACP. That she was not hired because she checked off the African American box on her application and that there have been white people hired into her position before. But is that the PC "equal opportunity employer" response? Or, can the NAACP, by the very nature of its organization, actively engage in biased hiring practices? I don't know, but I can see the merit in that.

6/12/2015 9:17:40 AM

Going by the 1% rule shes black, just like everyone else.

Where does it say you need to be black to care about the advancement of colored people? That's like implying someone needs to be gay to stand up for gay rights.

[Edited on June 12, 2015 at 9:25 AM. Reason : .]

6/12/2015 9:23:30 AM

I'm not saying that. I'm asking if it's permissible to give more weight to applicants that are black than those that are not in an organization designed to promote the welfare of african americans. I don't know the answer to that.

As I've already said in this thread, she's done a great job in her position regardless of her genetic makeup, and as the organization has already said, other non-black people have held her position without problems.

6/12/2015 9:41:44 AM

In a roundabout way, that's saying that tgl3, shrike, bweez and clifton are all transgendered, since you know, they stand up for those rights.

I agree though, if this woman wants to head up this chapter of the NAACP, and she's done a good job so far (which it sounds like she had), I don't see the big issue here. Yea, she was dishonest, but how many activists have been completely honest when trying to get something done.

6/12/2015 9:54:42 AM

I need to wait for more info before forming an opinion.

6/12/2015 9:57:25 AM

this is essentially, the movie Avatar.

6/12/2015 10:09:58 AM

are we going to talk about how she's made allegations of being harassed and threatened at every position she's had but police have never found anything? i think this chick is just crazy.

6/12/2015 10:22:50 AM

I bet if you closed your eyes and listened to her talk, you'd hear Wanda Sykes' voice

6/12/2015 10:32:56 AM

[Edited on June 12, 2015 at 10:44 AM. Reason : .]

6/12/2015 10:43:26 AM

So is this going to wind up like the photo of that color-changing dress people argued about 73 internet years ago?

6/12/2015 10:45:07 AM

From what i've seen, she's lied about more than just being black, she has a vast web of lies. And wore a wig as part of this.

People seem to be upset that she almost made a mockery of the black community, and what the "black experience" is.

I get she's done good, and seems to care about the black community, but this seems like a bad representative and an unstable person to have as a leader.

from FB:
She's lying about being harassed for being black. That's my problem. Black men and women are killed every day just for this skin and she's exploiting it. For that, she's dead wrong.

[Edited on June 12, 2015 at 10:56 AM. Reason : ]

6/12/2015 10:53:07 AM

Nenge! Nenge Mboko, from Cameroon? Do you remember me? It's Lionel Joseph!

6/12/2015 10:57:35 AM

this link details all of her claims of being harassed:
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/06/11/spokane-naacp-president-questions/71101474/

the tl;dr version is that this bitch is crazy

6/12/2015 11:05:54 AM

Dat's transracist!

6/12/2015 11:14:41 AM

Can I call her a tranny?

6/12/2015 11:20:17 AM

This woman isn't crazy. You guys are being too mean. Those "lies" she told were really just her alternate reality. To her they're real, so we shouldn't judge.

6/12/2015 11:26:28 AM

that't not how it works, why do you always have trouble with this?

6/12/2015 11:32:21 AM

6/12/2015 11:33:23 AM

She deserves a courage award.

6/12/2015 11:41:13 AM

LOL

6/12/2015 12:33:42 PM

Too big:

http://i.imgur.com/CsW4e6m.jpg

[Edited on June 12, 2015 at 1:08 PM. Reason : ]

6/12/2015 1:08:15 PM

I can't be the only person that, after reading about this, immediately thought of the Seinfeld episode "The Wizard".





[Edited on June 12, 2015 at 1:16 PM. Reason : holy long link]

6/12/2015 1:12:54 PM

^LOL...forgot about that one!

6/12/2015 1:17:08 PM

It's funny that the only people screaming about her being white are conservative nut jobs.

Fox be like we found a picture of her

6/12/2015 2:02:42 PM

6/12/2015 2:43:35 PM

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/06/best-jokes-about-the-white-naacp-leader.html?mid=facebook_nymag

6/12/2015 2:44:16 PM

6/12/2015 3:14:13 PM

6/12/2015 3:16:32 PM

Quote :

"spun a much wider web of warped lies"

man, i bet the writer was so proud of this

6/12/2015 3:16:45 PM

She is of african descent tho...

6/12/2015 3:30:40 PM

so...transgender supporters, do you support this?

6/12/2015 3:32:19 PM

^^Don't play stupid, a white African can come to America and they would be registered as white. African American == Colored. And her parents made it clear, shes European white, no negro has dipped his pen in that family.

6/12/2015 3:34:47 PM

^thats just according to you but she is technically of african descent. She mever said her skin color wasnt light.

She grew up with more black family memebers than obama.

I get it she grew up with white skin and didnt have ti deal with crap but its all just a social construct anyway.

[Edited on June 12, 2015 at 3:43 PM. Reason : k]

6/12/2015 3:42:39 PM

Quote :

" Q: Do you have some black in you? *has sex with black guy* A: Yes"

Haha

"No, no...not up in you. That's a different thing."

6/12/2015 3:50:43 PM

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=7567291

k,

It don't matter who she grew up with, stayed with, etc. She's white regardless of how she grew up.

And what does Obama have to do with your argument???



Slightly off topic, I'd bang her black version, the white version is

[Edited on June 12, 2015 at 4:05 PM. Reason : ,]

6/12/2015 3:57:07 PM

race should never be a qualification for a job. but, lying on a job application seems like the bigger issue. (of course, i don't think race questions should even be on a job application... now I don't know exactly how it was asked. obviously this job deals with race and there could have been essays where they ask "how has race etc impacted your views on blah blah")

6/12/2015 4:37:07 PM

Quote :

"And wore a wig as part of this"

Lots of black women wear wigs.

6/12/2015 4:44:58 PM

so...
checking black on the race box = bad
checking female on the gender box = good

?

6/12/2015 4:48:48 PM