Discussion: Parents Of Spokane NAACP President Claim She's Pretending To Be Black

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This may well be the first instance of whitey trying to “pass” as African-American . . .

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I went through a spell like she’s experiencing. Tainted Mad Hatter. It’ll pass. I just wish the squirrels would quit stealing my nickels.

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Obviously the lady needs professional help.

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This woman has a personality disorder. She needs help. And needs to be fired for false representation.

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You know what? Who cares if she’s White. She has been an advocate for the Black community and I commend her. Leave her be.

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So?

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The “races” are quite arbitrary; humans are a single interbred population by this point in our history. We could just as easily divide people by height or weight as by skin tone. Or better yet, not divide ourselves at all.

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Thank you. I don’t really get the brouhaha over this. I think she’s going overboard with her “identification” with the Black community HOWEVER having said that, I don’t see that she’s doing something inherently negative. Quite frankly, I’ve seen people like this before. I’m not shocked or disapproving.

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Any reputable employer background check would have flagged her as being “Caucasian.”

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She might be troubled or confused. But the under-the-bus parents are trebly so.

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Her parents pitched in as they could in having their little princess fired

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Mental illness.

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Me too. Who gives a crap.

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Yeah, except she is a liar who misrepresented her racial heritage, over and over and over again. She’s likely mentally ill, and definitely not a shining example of integrity and trustworthiness. However, final judgement should be reserved for the NAACP organization membership.

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It seems to me that the leader of an organization that advocates for a particular group of people, whether it be NAACP advocating for African-Americans, La Raza advocating for Latinos or NOW advocating for women ought to be one of the people the organization is working on behalf of and whose lives and future prospects they’re trying raise up. She or he is more likely to have experienced the discrimination, bias and hatred directed towards the members of the group she or he represents and could empathize with more fully. It doesn’t look like this woman has.

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Hence Louie Gohmert and Ted Cruz represent the people of Texas.

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I don’t think it’s a huge problem for, for example, an NAACP chapter to have a white person as its head. But to be faking it like this is extremely creepy and sign of an underlying problem.

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If this woman is in fact white and she’s advocating for African-Americans, it’s comparable to Mitt Romney advocating for lower middle class men and women who work in factories. He’s never walked a mile in their shoes and neither has she and hasn’t experienced the grief that comes down on them simply because of skin color. She means well, so did Romney, but that’s not enough.

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Is there a law that prohibits Caucasians from showing interest in the welfare of minorities?

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