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Transracial Woman Under Fire in Spokane

 
 
 
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She's risen from North Idaho civil rights champion to positions of power in Spokane as a self-described black woman.
But what if Rachel Dolezal is really white?
Dolezal, chair of Spokane's Office of Police Ombudsman Commission and president of the city's chapter of the NAACP, has made claims in the media and elsewhere about her ethnicity, race and background that are contradicted by her biological parents.
"It is very disturbing that she has become so dishonest," said Dolezal's mother, Ruthanne Dolezal, in a phone interview from Northwest Montana, where Dolezal grew up.
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http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_385adfeb-76f3-5050-98b4-d4bf021c423f.html

She's even been the victim of numerous hate crimes.

“In all of these incidents (she reported in Coeur d’Alene), she was the sole witness to events that, when put under scrutiny, don’t hold up,” he said.
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http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/jun/11/board-member-had-longstanding-doubts-about-truthfu/

As we are told race is a social construct, why should someone be forced to maintain the race they were assigned at birth when they self-identify with another race?
 
The problem is the ridiculous and sexist "one drop" rule which was used in the past by white supremacist to reject mixed-race people and is used today by black supremacist to deny the white heritage of mixed-race people.

And in this case it looks like she deliberately darkened herself to make her appear more "black" given that this is a picture from her younger days.
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Also problematic is that belonging to certain minority groups can give one legal and other benefits. For example, Elzabeth "Fauxachontas" Warren used her dubious (and even in best case scenario minuscule) Indian heritage to get "minority" faculty position at Harvard.
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I do not think one's ethnicity or rape should give anybody legal benefits or special consideration in hiring, college admissions etc.
 
I would assume there's no reason why we shouldn't accept transracial people and consider them what race they want to be identified as. It doesn't even create the usual panoply of bathroom problems.

Whether they always felt like they were mistakenly born into the wrong race or just want to get into Harvard.
 
dismal said:
I would assume there's no reason why we shouldn't accept transracial people and consider them what race they want to be identified as. It doesn't even create the usual panoply of bathroom problems.

Whether they always felt like they were mistakenly born into the wrong race or just want to get into Harvard.
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I think you have found a secret backdoor for Asians to get into Harvard. Chen Liu can just change his name to Lamar Jefferson and claim he's always felt and identified as African-American. He can say he's always hated rice and Anime and has always loved basketball and says "axe" instead of "ask".
 
OF course, for it to mean anything, we'll have to identify what each race 'feels' like. What racial behaviors are.
Luckily, there is a lot of trail-blazing in this area. We could even create checksheets. A certain number of points for liking watermelon or tentacle hentai, for poor driving, excelling grades, punctuality...
 
thebeave said:
dismal said:
I would assume there's no reason why we shouldn't accept transracial people and consider them what race they want to be identified as. It doesn't even create the usual panoply of bathroom problems.

Whether they always felt like they were mistakenly born into the wrong race or just want to get into Harvard.
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I think you have found a secret backdoor for Asians to get into Harvard. Chen Liu can just change his name to Lamar Jefferson and claim he's always felt and identified as African-American. He can say he's always hated rice and Anime and has always loved basketball and says "axe" instead of "ask".
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Yes, yes. Much as the great actor C. Thomas Howell transformed from white Mark Watson into Black Mark (aka Marcus) Watson to attend Harvard in the American Classic Movie 'Soul Man" and got to nail AsianBlack Rae Dawn Chong.
 
Derec said:
The problem is the ridiculous and sexist "one drop" rule which was used in the past by white supremacist to reject mixed-race people and is used today by black supremacist to deny the white heritage of mixed-race people.

And in this case it looks like she deliberately darkened herself to make her appear more "black" given that this is a picture from her younger days.
rachel3_t620-1.png


Also problematic is that belonging to certain minority groups can give one legal and other benefits. For example, Elizabeth Warren used her Indian heritage to get "minority" faculty position at Harvard.
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Troubling, or just plain racist. I'm going with her older picture was touched up so she could 'pass' in Montana, a state with which I'm familiar when it comes to how those rugged individualists prejudge - oh how my family and neighbors just loved to denigrate 'breed', 'kinky haired', 'spick', jap, Okie, and 'stosh,' hands working for us on our big sky ranches - anything from sheep fuckers to limp wristed presidents.

The problem is derec, in spite of apologists best preaching, us 'mericans are better and we make certain things stay that way. So passing is denigrating as is whining because someone uses a legal advantage of being part minority for getting ahead. They have to do it like we do it. Right? You know, ask dad's friend write a letter to his Harvard senator bud asking the favor of recommending me so I can get in.
 
Keith&Co. said:
OF course, for it to mean anything, we'll have to identify what each race 'feels' like. What racial behaviors are.
Luckily, there is a lot of trail-blazing in this area. We could even create checksheets. A certain number of points for liking watermelon or tentacle hentai, for poor driving, excelling grades, punctuality...
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I personally have never felt much kinship with the white oppressors of slaves on plantations that are such the hallmark of my race, nor for that matter the slaves. Perhaps I'll identify as Pacific Islander. Unless it means I have to be one of those guys who wear Tommy Bahama all the time.
 
dismal said:
I would assume there's no reason why we shouldn't accept transracial people and consider them what race they want to be identified as. It doesn't even create the usual panoply of bathroom problems.

Whether they always felt like they were mistakenly born into the wrong race or just want to get into Harvard.
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Gad the tears of self pity in your post just drip off my screen.
 
dismal said:
Yes, yes. Much as the great actor C. Thomas Howell transformed from white Mark Watson into Black Mark (aka Marcus) Watson to attend Harvard in the American Classic Movie 'Soul Man" and got to nail AsianBlack Rae Dawn Chong.
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You're obviously a well read fellow. Probably intelligent too. I'm thinking that you thought of that dodge but chickened out so now you cluck about it here.
 
fromderinside said:
dismal said:
Yes, yes. Much as the great actor C. Thomas Howell transformed from white Mark Watson into Black Mark (aka Marcus) Watson to attend Harvard in the American Classic Movie 'Soul Man" and got to nail AsianBlack Rae Dawn Chong.
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You're obviously a well read fellow. Probably intelligent too. I'm thinking that you thought of that dodge but chickened out so now you cluck about it here.
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Smart people claim Native American. Don't have to bother with hair and makeup. Or be good at basketball.
 
Trausti said:
As we are told race is a social construct, why should someone be forced to maintain the race they were assigned at birth when they self-identify with another race?
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The definitions we use for race are largely social constructs, but the traits we use in those definitions are not. I'd agree in principle that a person should not be forced to remain with an identity thrust upon them by condition of birth, but what can we do for such an individual in practice? There isn't a safe way to physically transition physical traits associated with race of which I am aware, and there are few legal rights and entitlements of race on paper which could be applied to her. Even if there were, she'd have to deal with the same practical complications transgender people face, and she may not be able to resolve them adequately to satisfy her needs or wants.

I don't even care why she wants to identify as being black. If that's what she wants to do, then what is it to me? If it is somehow possible, she should go for it.
 
If her parents had adopted amputees or paraplegics she would want to cripple herself.
 
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