Quote:Well, I agree with you on the point that lying about her race, especially on an application for a job, is wrong.  In fact, it's borderline fraud.  But, if the luminaries in the liberal world are saying it's okay and that if she thinks she's black, then she's black, that's a problem. 

 

Suppose a white police officer shoots and kills a black guy who just committed strong arm robbery at a convenience store.  The suspect was unarmed, but he was a large, intimidating guy who physically threatened the store owner in order to steal a box of, say, cigars.  He's approached by a white police officer as he's walking down the middle of the street, and in reaction to being stopped by this white officer, he eventually turns and charges the cop, at which point the police officer shoots and kills the suspect.   In the aftermath, the police officer, who is white, declares that in his mind, he's black.  So, this is now a black cop shooting a black suspect.  Would riots happen?

 

My point here is that by embracing a Russian/Czeck with blond hair and blue eyes as a black woman because she identifies herself as such, these liberals who are only doing so because she agrees with them politically are destroying the race card.  If Caitlyn Jenner declared himself a black woman, imagine the response from the same people. 

What you've described is such a far-fetched scenario that I'm not even sure how to respond. I will say that a lifelong friend of mine who happens to be black and has blood as blue as Chuck Schumer's expressed the following sentiment to me about how Rachel Dolezal chooses to portray herself:

 

"That's bull(something)."

 

The NAACP can reach out and embrace her all it wants; the sense I get from just paying passing attention to the news is that the black community has all but rejected her for what she's done. So if a white cop shot a white guy who had been living his life as if he were black? Let's put it this way: how much did the media dig into the lives of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Garner? You really think we wouldn't know within hours if said "black" guy's parents were white? Would there be riots? Who knows, but the truth of it is that black men get shot by the police on a daily basis, and the vast majority of them do not get riots in their "honor".

 

Side note: when the press reports that Dolezal "resigned", do you really think that was her idea? She almost certainly had a sit-down with a higher-up who told her in no uncertain terms that she was resigning whether she wanted to or not. What an organization says publicly supporting someone and what it does privately to get rid of them are two very different things.

 

In a couple of weeks, Dolezal will be gone and forgotten, just another casualty of the social media age. If this were 1995 instead of 2015, no one outside of Spokane would know or care about the sad, strange tale of the woman who chose to live her life in blackface and lost her career and social status as a result of it.

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