Hillonearth Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3121061/Local-NAACP-leader-professor-African-studies-outed-WHITE-parents-convincing-community-black-years.html Really strange story from the States, where it turns out an NAACP leader who is also a part time professor of African Studies has been outed as having zero black ancestry. In her defence, she said "We're all from the African continent..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The OP Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I'm not expert and I'm not going to click the daily mail link, but I'm guessing not being black doesn't stop you being in the NAACP or teaching African studies. There is the whole 'race is a social construct' hing too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P45 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Why is this news? The Daily Mail is better sticking to chasing away immigants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted June 12, 2015 Author Share Posted June 12, 2015 Aye, apologies for the Mail link, was the first one that came to hand. For me though the cultural appropriation of the entire black experience that she's made is fairly bizarre, and perhaps even a bit insulting to African-Americans who have genuinely lived it. We're now used to the idea that the concept of gender is a fluid one which is all down to what a person identifies as - it raises the question should race and ethnicity be one too when someone doen't come from a particular background? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya Bezzer! Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Why is this news? Clearly because a local leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People turns out to be white, as well as being a deluded loony who's public life is a total lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Wid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCelt67 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Half the original founders of the NAACP were white. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya Bezzer! Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Half the original founders of the NAACP were white. Probably didn't claim that some random black guy was their father though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Spokane is about 2% black and previous leaders of the NAACP in the city have been white. However, I think that Rache Dolezal has actually claimed to be of black ancestry in articles and on her application form. There's also some suggestion that she fabricated racial incidents against herself, including hate mail. It's pretty strange and sad but it's not unprecedented. There are people who have falsely claimed to be Holocaust survivors or 9/11 widows. Human beings are capable of a wide range of bizarre behaviour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Clicked link to check shaggability. Naaaaah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 John Barnes should say he's white and he might get a job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Spokane is about 2% black and previous leaders of the NAACP in the city have been white. However, I think that Rache Dolezal has actually claimed to be of black ancestry in articles and on her application form. There's also some suggestion that she fabricated racial incidents against herself, including hate mail. It's pretty strange and sad but it's not unprecedented. There are people who have falsely claimed to be Holocaust survivors or 9/11 widows. Human beings are capable of a wide range of bizarre behaviour. You'd know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Daily Mail at it again... They've photoshopped in Teddy Roosevelt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Daily Mail at it again... They've photoshopped in Teddy Roosevelt. Harold Shipman lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 but his patients....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Skidmarks Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 The Mum looks like she knows something. I bet the milkman is black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom McB Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 It gets better. She had tried to sue a university for discriminating against her because she was............white. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/15/rachel-dolezal-sued-howard_n_7589340.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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