When the hell is Rachel Dolezal going to realise her damn priviledge, she has a “woe is me” complex that clearly shows she has absolutely zero understanding of the black struggle. Her actions went a long way beyond being a white girl wearing locs to be alternatives, or wearing an African print dress…. She deceived to an extreme by pretending to be black. The black community welcome allies but the fact is, if you are white you can simply never be black and never understand the experience…. Is that racist, GTFOH! No it is not! Rachel, no matter how trouble she has caused herself will always be white and STILL the fact that she is getting top media spots shows that her self created troubles are hardly destroying her.
So what’s all this bringing her up again about? Why does she deserve a space on this site?
I know, I know, I should just ignore her but I think the debate and the distinction between her view and what i see as reality is important to acknowledge.
She appeared on BBC’s News Night to defend herself YET AGAIN and still claim she is black (P….Lease!!!) and give a sob story about how hard it is to get work since her white parents outed her as not being black! She is so out of work that she managed to get a book published about discrimination (who needs fake news when the real news is so much more messed up, you couldn’t make it up).
On the show she compared her struggle to Kaitlyn Jenner and said
“Gender is understood – we’ve progressed, we’ve evolved to understanding that gender is not binary.
“It’s not even biological. But what strikes me as so odd is that race isn’t biological either.
“And actually race has been to some extent less biological than gender, if you really think about history and our bodies.”
AND, this is the bit that angered me….
“There isn’t, like, white blood and black blood.”
First off, she shouldn’t be up there “educating” everyone about race. People are not idiots, we know the blood runs the same color but the skin doesn’t the society doesn’t and the culture doesn’t….. I’m personally a supporter of transgender rights but I think her comparison reeks of privilege, it’s nearing naracism if she really can’t stop seeing outside of herself.
Of course, Twitter responded and her are some of the tweets that followed (some people backed her up but I don’t have time for that mess).
Rachel Dolezal I wish I had the choice and the privilege you enjoy. Now get out of my telly, you giving black folk a headache. pic.twitter.com/JaNXdsL7Zi
— Faduma (@phadzyy25) March 27, 2017
Since Rachel Dolezal still identifies as black, I'd like to say that I'm a tall white man now and should be paid accordingly.
— Kashana (@kashanacauley) March 28, 2017
Rachel Dolezal is white privilege in a nutshell. How bout I wake up and start saying I'm white and we'll see how that goes hmm #Newsnight
— lis (@ElisabethBadji) March 27, 2017
Rachel Dolezal you are not Black
Rachel Dolezal you are not Black
Rachel Dolezal you are not Black
Rachel Dolezal you are not Black— Young Gambino (@EnClaudeNeuf) March 27, 2017
UPDATE: Rachel Dolezal is still an idiot who thinks she's a victim https://t.co/pzZgnyb8RH pic.twitter.com/upUM6jKaK3
— sarah (@SarahDuggers) February 28, 2017
And, the video from News Night
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