Passing

[pjclarke]

her parents spent three days in a tepee, three years before she was born

Or maybe she's a model of sanity and the parents, who it seems, she is now suing, are nuts? Her early home life seems to have been a tad erm, unconventional.

Doležal has no contact today with her mother or stepfather due to a series of events that still haunt her thoughts today. Doležal and her siblings were physically abused by her mother and stepfather. “They would punish us by skin complexion,”

[EternalOptimist]

Don't mistake permutising for logical rational thought.
use your judgement

[EternalOptimist]

bruce lee got walloped in a night club

[pjclarke]

Don't mistake permutising for logical rational thought.
use your judgement

Soon as I find out what that made up word means I will stop doing it.

Halford Fairchild, a professor of psychology and Africana studies at Pitzer College and the former president of the Association of Black Psychologists, said that Dolezal’s behavior is the opposite of passing.

“To ‘pass’ as black is comparatively unheard of,” Fairchild said in an email. “But it illustrates a certain ‘insanity’ when it comes to issues of ‘race’ in American life and culture.”

He noted that the country’s first black president has a caucasian mother and that some black people, like supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, “might be black as night but eschew any identification with the black community”.

This is because race is tied to identity politics and not biology.

“Rachel Dolezal is black because she identifies as black,” he said. “Her identity was authentic, as far as I could tell.”

Rachel Dolezal identifying as African American is highly unusual, experts say | US news | The Guardian

[DimPrawn]

[original PM]

Bet if she went to la south Central and started calling everyone Monica she would find out how black she was :|

[SueEllen]

Bet if she went to la south Central and started calling everyone Monica she would find out how black she was :|

She just needs to go to Staines on Thames.....

[pjclarke]

Of course, the serious point she is making, and being utterly missed, is that ethnic groupings such as 'Black', 'African American' are no more than social constructs; genetically speaking, there is no such thing as 'race'.


Sorry, UKIP.

[SueEllen]

Of course, the serious point she is making, and being utterly missed, is that ethnic groupings such as 'Black', 'African American' are no more than social constructs; genetically speaking, there is no such thing as 'race'.


Sorry, UKIP.

I find it funny that in America she says she is "Black" not "African American", so clearly she knows the difference between the two identity constructs.

[GlenW]

Of course, the serious point she is making, and being utterly missed, is that ethnic groupings such as 'Black', 'African American' are no more than social constructs; genetically speaking, there is no such thing as 'race'.


Sorry, UKIP.

If it has nothing to do with genetics, why are black people black then?