Black Lives Matter
However messed up her deception may have been, I donât think anyone ever disputed that she worked hard for the N.A.A.C.P. chapter in Spokane. Too bad, but people do dumb stuff.
A form of âracial cross dressingâ gone bad?
Itâs a sad story. I wonder if her self-identification is impinging directly on her job performance.
So, now we are judging people by skin color? Again?
As an aside, the collective group of humanity traces themselves back to Africa, as in black. This, disappointingly, excludes neo-nazis who seem to have descended, if possible, from cockroaches.
I can certainly sympathize with someone whoâs made bad choicesâI am the very queen of bad choices. But this womanâs problems go beyond that. Sheâs either a deceitful exploiter or mentally ill. The two, of course, are not mutually exclusive.
Iâm sure she can find âa jobâ â just not the kind of job she deems worthy of her particular expertise.
I rather expect her memoir will be fascinating and am looking forward to reading it.
Iâm sorry for the difficulty she currently finds herself in, and I hope she finds work soon. that said, she did do something wrong, she lied about her background, which may or may not have been a critical factor in her getting the job with the NAACP to begin with. I may âidentifyâ as a âyoung latinoâ, but the fact remains, I am a middle-aged, translucently caucasion male.
Iâm sure it will be fabulist.
This is the point. Identifying with the African-American experience, even undergoing surgery and changing her hair and the rest of it are all defensible (although I think many people donât trust her for that either), but I donât understand how she ever though it would be okay to extensively and publicly lie about it. She misled people she worked with who did not know her family background.
What no Minstrel Shows available?
Sorry had to do it .
Only a deeply disturbed person would think they could pull off such a charade
The plight of being white.
My heart bleeds for her. Apparently narcissism isnât exclusively a Republican problem.
OK so the woman made a mistake.
It seems we talk a great deal here about serial mistake makers who never receive âpunishmentâ, indeed are often, depending on wealth food chain height, rewarded for mistake after mistake.
Ms. Dolezal certainly does not deserve to be destroyed for imagining herself to be another race.
I feel so bad for Rachel. She wants to be who she wants to be like Caitlyn Jenner does - whatâs the difference? Jenner gets prizes and all kinds of kudos for her change and this woman gets shit on and sheâs the opposite of a racist.
Itâs not fair.
She may not be a racist, but lying as she did undercuts any good she did or may yet do.
Sheâs put herself into an untenable position by her own actionsâhowever well-meaning those actions may have been.
And Caitlyn Jenner should be roundly criticized for supporting the Idiot Trumpâwhich negates any good she did for the trans community by coming out so publicly.
Both of them acted without thinking about the unintended consequences of those actions.
Is she lying? Why she lying when Caitlyn isnât? Race is as much of a social construct as gender. Itâs the same thing.
I donât think she hurt anyone either.
Are we sure this isnât just part of the grift? Maybe Iâm wrong in that assessment, but sheâs talking to the press again, and her book is out next month. Thatâs all fine, but Iâm a little hesitant to feel bad for her here. Sheâll likely be fine.