Rachel Dolezal NAACP controversy

KinCA said:
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Exactly.

So that would mean that all of us who used to be out in the sun all the time were trying to be blacker, and then when it came out about how bad it was to be in the sun so much and we started staying out of the sun, using sunblock etc we were trying to be whiter.

Not to mention that it's difficult to tell what shade someone's skin really is by any of the media pics, they are all doctored.
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KinCA said:
well yes, in her case that would be more accurate.

But then I guess everyone else stays exactly the same skin color throughout their life.
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No logic allowed this is the internet dammit lol
 
This deserves a requote

samson1701 said:
Honestly, I don't care if she wants to be black as long as she did her job at the NAACP well. Did she help the people she was supposed to help? Did she discharge her duties as well, or better, than anyone else could have? If the answer is "yes" then why do I care?

The NAACP has had whites involved in the organisation since it's inception. It wasn't started by blacks only. Whites have always been in the mix. And, by all accounts, she has been down with the struggle and has probably done more "getting her hands dirty" in trenches than most of these outraged negroes have, or ever will have, done to help the cause. I'm going to get pissed at an ally because he or she told a few lies about his or her lineage? I swear my people sometimes get on my last nerve with that dumb shit. How much shit are those who can really do us harm getting away with while we remain tranfixed on this stupid, trival B.S.?

This whole thing is being blown way out of proportion because of one racist question; why would anyone want to be black? That, and black women feel even more threatened by white women now that one actually passed herself off as one of them.
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Commenter wrote (paraphrasing)...."Someone please tell her where Caucasia is, so she can visit the motherland."

Lmao!
 
Oh yeah...she's Black.

https://hater site.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/rachel.jpg?w=700
So wanna caption what the 2 guys are thinking...:p
 
I personally don't understand why it is that Rachel claiming she's black matters.

Why is it news worthy?

And why are so many people offended? Including African Americans?

Is the offense that she lied? Why is it a lie if that is what she believes she is?

If the offense organizational (i.e. she violated NAACP rules), then the offense is understandable. But why are normal everyday people offended?

Not convinced?

Ask yourself this...

Why is it that America celebrates when a man goes through a sex operation and now calls himself a woman? Go through the headlines and you'll read hundreds of writers celebrating gender ambiguity. But when it comes to racial ambiguity -- and race isn't even an accepted paradigm by the American Anthropological Association -- both some African Americans and some white Americans squirm and yell treachery!

Again... more evidence of American media dividing and confusing people about things that really don't matter.
 
What makes you think that people are not capable to being concerned with more than one situation or issue at a time? Just because people are expressing opinions, concerns, frustrations, whatever about this, doesn't mean they are not even more concerned about other issues.

This discussion (as any of the others on here) is a very small snippet in most people's lives.

Some think it's a big deal, others do not. No different than anything else that comes up really. There are those who are outraged over things and those who are not. Chances are pretty high that people will not change their opinions, but there is nothing wrong with discussing them. We all have the choice as to whether or not we want to read or participate in it.

For some, integrity is very important...especially when it comes to those who are holding themselves out as advocates and/or leaders.
 
KinCA said:
What makes you think that people are not capable to being concerned with more than one situation or issue at a time? Just because people are expressing opinions, concerns, frustrations, whatever about this, doesn't mean they are not even more concerned about other issues.

This discussion (as any of the others on here) is a very small snippet in most people's lives.

Some think it's a big deal, others do not. No different than anything else that comes up really. There are those who are outraged over things and those who are not. Chances are pretty high that people will not change their opinions, but there is nothing wrong with discussing them. We all have the choice as to whether or not we want to read or participate in it.

For some, integrity is very important...especially when it comes to those who are holding themselves out as advocates and/or leaders.
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Well said and its only suppose to not be a big deal if they don't agree.
 
I have no doubt that news readers are capable of being concerned about multiple issues at any given moment. But that's not the issue.

The topic has to do with Rachel Dolezal's identification and claim with being black.

There is no historical precedence that I can recall of for a white woman being denied affiliation and claim of being black. Historically, the one drop rule prevented others from being white. And historically, white men prevented white women access, as well as dating and relating with black men. Not the other way around.
 
bluesky11 said:
I have no doubt that news readers are capable of being concerned about multiple issues at any given moment. But that's not the issue.

The topic has to do with Rachel Dolezal's identification and claim with being black.

There is no historical precedence that I can recall of for a white woman being denied affiliation and claim of being black. Historically, the one drop rule prevented others from being white. And historically, white men prevented white women access, as well as dating and relating with black men. Not the other way around.
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That's what you're hung up on the legality of it? Smh
 
In the Black newspaper in my city in Raleigh the chief reporter mentioned the tall tales Ms.Dolezel made like saying her Black dad belonged to the Oakland Ca Police Department and fooled a friend of hers. Before she was outed by her White parents a TV news reporter was investigating a slew of hate crimes she reported that was not true. Bliss,that is the first time I had seen that photo. Also,I saw tape footage of her with her skin darkened like almost Blackface.
 
Soulthinker said:
In the Black newspaper in my city in Raleigh the chief reporter mentioned the tall tales Ms.Dolezel made like saying her Black dad belonged to the Oakland Ca Police Department and fooled a friend of hers. Before she was outed by her White parents a TV news reporter was investigating a slew of hate crimes she reported that was not true. Bliss,that is the first time I had seen that photo. Also,I saw tape footage of her with her skin darkened like almost Blackface.
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No matter the reason anyone decides to tan their skin, it's not Blackface.
 
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