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I have, more than once.
If you look closely at her face, you see her eyes, her facial features, as well as her complexion are clearly Caucasian. I've never seen a black person that looks quite as white as she does.
'A Chosen Exile': Black People Passing In White America : Code Switch : NPR
For a black person to pass as white, their history has to be erased. This includes all family ties. For them to be outed after they pass, would mean serious legal and social problems.
http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/students/groups/oslj/files/2012/03/62.3.kennedy.pdf
Dolezal has tried to erase her family while creating a fictional one. Now she even says, ""I haven't had a DNA test. There's been no biological proof that Larry and Ruthanne are my biological parents. ...I'm not necessarily saying that I can prove they're not. But I don't know that I can actually prove they are. I mean, the birth certificate is issued a month and a half after I'm born. And certainly there were no medical witnesses to my birth." :roll:
Rachel Dolezal throws doubt on her biological parents: 'I haven't had a DNA test' - LA Times
And if she has falsified legal documents, and if she has made false hate-crime reports to the police, I hope she finds herself with serious legal problems.
It's too late to help her with her little social problem here; she's very much hoist by her own petard.
Bad situation? Huh? She's being treated like the most interesting person in the country right now. She stands to make millions off of this, why on earth would she hire a PF firm to hide in the sand???Someone really needs to do her a favor and tell her to shut up. She's just making a bad situation for herself only worse, seriously. Hire a PR firm and hide for a while until something else comes up on the news. Pretend you're Josh Duggar.
Except that it isn't. And here are my reasons:
Someone really needs to do her a favor and tell her to shut up. She's just making a bad situation for herself only worse, seriously. Hire a PR firm and hide for a while until something else comes up on the news. Pretend you're Josh Duggar.
Sounds about right.
Nope. American black. Both her parents were black as well.
There's a long history of American blacks doing everything they can to be a "white" in appearance as possible. She's the product of that.
Too bad they just didn't focus on being American.
I see a movie in the immediate future. The big question is who gets to portray Ms Dolezal?
Her fifteen minutes expired long ago.
huh? You asked why. I gave you an answer to your why.
Damn. She's just plain old nutz.
"There is a wide consensus that the racial categories that are common in everyday usage are socially constructed, and that racial groups cannot be biologically defined.[20][21][22][23][24][25]....Nonetheless, some scholars argue that racial categories obviously correlate with biological traits (e.g. phenotype) to some degree, and that certain genetic markers have varying frequencies among human populations, some of which correspond more or less to traditional racial groupings. For this reason, there is no current consensus about whether racial categories can be considered to have significance for understanding human genetic variation.[26]
When people define and talk about a particular conception of race, they create a social reality through which social categorization is achieved.[27] In this sense, races are said to be social constructs.[28] These constructs develop within various legal, economic, and sociopolitical contexts, and may be the effect, rather than the cause, of major social situations.[29] While race is understood to be a social construct by many, most scholars agree that race has real material effects in the lives of people through institutionalized practices of preference and discrimination.
20 Marks, Jonathan (2003). What it means to be 98% chimpanzee apes, people, and their genes. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520930766.
21 Templeton, A. R. (1998). "Human Races: A Genetic and Evolutionary Perspective". American Anthropologist 100 (3): 632–650. doi:10.1525/aa.1998.100.3.632.
22 Williams, S. M.; Templeton, A. R. (2003). "Race and Genomics". New England Journal of Medicine 348 (25): 2581–2582. doi:10.1056/nejm200306193482521.
23 Templeton, A. R. "The genetic and evolutionary significance of human races". In: Race and Intelligence: Separating Science From Myth. J. M. Fish, ed. Pp. 31-56. Mahwah, New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.
24 American; Anthropological, Physical. "Statement on Biological Aspects of Race". American Journal Physical Anthropology 569: 1996.
25 Steve Olson, Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes, Boston, 2002
26 Bamshad, M.; Wooding, S.; Salisbury, B. A.; Stephens, J. C. (2004). "Deconstructing the relationship between genetics and race". Nature Reviews Genetics 5 (8): 598–609. doi:10.1038/nrg1401. PMID 15266342."
as cited by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_classification)
From the Seattle CBS affiliate:
Dolezal’s statement reads, “While challenging the construct of race is at the core of evolving human consciousness, we can NOT afford to lose sight of the five Game Changers (Criminal Justice & Public Safety, Health & Healthcare, Education, Economic Sustainability, and Voting Rights & Political Representation) that affect millions, often with a life or death outcome. The movement is larger than a moment in time or a single person’s story, and I hope that everyone offers their robust support of the Journey for Justice campaign that the NAACP launches today!
“It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley. It is my hope that by securing a beautiful office for the organization in the heart of downtown, bringing the local branch into financial compliance, catalyzing committees to do strategic work in the five Game Changer issues, launching community forums, putting the membership on a fast climb, and helping many individuals find the legal, financial and practical support needed to fight race-based discrimination, I have positioned the Spokane NAACP to buttress this transition.” Rachel Dolezal Resigns As NAACP Leader Amid Controversy « CBS Seattle
Gobbledegook which is often done when there is no/can't give an answer. What is brought to the fore are the issues of integrity and honesty I believe.
It doesn't even sound coherent. It is bad when people that wander around all the little animals in the woods make more sense than this.
JIM STAFFORD lyrics - Wildwood Weed
Just pointing out that she is not the first person to choose to identify as black, although Mezzrow and Otis never represented themselves as born that way.
I saw no mention of that in the story. Who exactly is doing the investigating, Tres?
So she isn't the only crazy person on the earth, right?
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