Quote: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.

 

Oh, I've had this conversation with a good friend of mine who happens to be a little higher on the melanin scale than I am.  He too is a very blue blooded black guy, but his reaction was similar.  I understand that most won't embrace her for what she's deluded herself into believing, but there are many who are/will in positions where they can actually express their support from coast to coast.  Ask Whoopie Goldberg.  The problem here is that these luminaries have a real following, so their low information fans will gobble that up and regurgitate it to anyone who is listening, and before you know it, black is just a state of mind.  My friend even conceded that much. 

 

Dolezal was scheduled to meet with her executive board on Monday.  The meeting was abruptly canceled, and she resigned that afternoon.  It's pretty clear how that resignation went. 

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