For years, Rachel Dolezal "passed" as black, to the point of landing an important job with the NAACP.
Then her family outed her, and now America is having yet another conversation about race, history and identity.
It's interesting that this revelation coincides with Bruce Jenner's unveiling of his new, female identity.
I think the two situations are very different. I also don't think what Dolezal did was that bad.
Find out why.
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Now that who and what you are is nothing to do with your body, according to the insane left, don’t be surprised when an entity in a human body (formerly known as a man, woman, boy or girl) claims to be anything from a goat to a watermelon to a reincarnated dinosaur, and is taken seriously, by the left only at first, and then by society as a whole. Once the open identity genie is loosed from the bottle, there is no stopping it from leaping into every area of identity insanity and abuse.
The things we will soon see if this genie is not put back into the bottle will shock even people today who consider themselves as social radicals. Watch for someone claiming to be a cow and demanding reparations for the killing and enslavement of cows by humans for thousands of years. Then watch for the first few nitwits to buy into that, followed by the left in general and finally society in general. Think it won’t happen? I guarantee it is coming, and far sooner than we might have thought.
Derrida and Levi-Strauss (I’m sure you know of them) are among the chief ideologues behind the postmodernist “thinking” that has so insidiously gained traction, first in academia and then infected society at large. Every bat-sh*t crazy, radical notion from multiculturalism to race and gender theory to Ontario’s recent sex-ed program can be traced to the aberrant ideas of these people and their zombie followers. The leftist social engineers among us (and they are legion) have taken these ideas as if they were verified truth and applied them widely, to the lasting detriment of Western civilization.
A better analogy is the topic of President Obama’s ethnicity. While his father was Kenyan (and a polygamist) his mother was a white woman from Kansas. When the controversy over Obama’s ethnicity first arose, liberal supporters and media raced to his defence, claiming he had the right to identify with whichever race and heritage he felt comfortable with, and had no obligation to prove his “blackness”. It revived the idea of race as a floating signifier, so-described by British sociologist Stuart Hall, who borrowed the term from semiotician Claude Lévi-Strauss . Floating signifiers are themselves devoid of meaning and hence capable of receiving any meaning, like Roland Barthes’ “floating chain of signifieds”, or Jacques Derrida’s “freeplay” of signifiers. Derrida argued that they are not fixed to their signifieds but point beyond themselves to other signifiers in an “indefinite referral of signifier to signified.” Hall takes this idea and applies it to the concept of race, which he says is not determinative of actual difference, but merely a discursive, socio-cultural construct whose meaning isn’t fixed, but shifts with changing context and historical attitudes.
Rachel Dolezal’s race shouldn’t even be an issue in today’s society. So what if she feels more black than white? Who cares if she wants to call herself black, as long as she’s not doing it to deliberately denigrate anyone? What happened to freedom of expression of honestly-held beliefs (the slightly watered-down Canadian version of American freedom of speech)? I can’t believe we’re even having this discussion. I feel like I’ve time-travelled back to the days of the one-drop rule. Isn’t it a GOOD thing that we’ve moved past that, such that a white person would even want to be treated as black? Are we now going to require DNA testing to prove “blackness”?
Apparently, though America has embraced having a “black” President, and is able to accept that Olympian Bruce Jenner now self-identifies as a woman named Caitlyn, it’s not willing to afford Rachel Dolezal the same courtesy.
I think it’s a shame.
Also, to help black causes you don’t need to fake being black. In fact, most of the founders of the NAACP were white!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sand
And of course J-ROC on the Trailer Park Boys………..:-)
Al Sharpton is such a opportunistic whore.
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Post of the thread! Couldn’t have put it better myself, Liza.
p.s. He owes the IRS ~$4 million in back income taxes….’nuf said.