I
know a lot of you are saying “so what,
she has done a lot of good work for her NAACP chapter. She should be lauded for
her accomplishments and her dedication.”
Granted, but couldn’t she have done the same thing as a White woman? Wouldn’t
you have more respect for her as a White woman with a heart for social justice
and without the façade of a struggle? An interview she gave was recently
released. In it she said her Black grandfather
fought back and hit a white cop and had to leave town with her then 5 year old
father in the middle of the night or they would have been killed. She also said
her Black father was an officer in
the Marines who was almost killed three times by his White soldiers. Don’t know
about you but dumb shit like this leads me to question the authenticity of her
work. Her accomplishments may have been many but reaching them under the guise
of a struggling Black woman is
questionable and at the least extremely deceitful.
So
she permed her hair developed Black affectations and reinvented herself in
blackface. Oh, did I mention this was after she sued Howard University for reverse racial discrimination. Yep, 14 years
ago Rachel Dolezal then known as Rachel Moore, the white lady from Montana,
sued Howard University claiming she
was denied a teaching assistant position based on race. To be clear based on
the fact that she was denied the position as a White woman. She also claimed her artwork was removed from a
student exhibition in favor of African-American students. But to be fair this
was before she identified as Black so
maybe we should cut her some slack. So let’s recap. Before she became a sister down with the struggle she was a put
upon White woman being hated on by the
Blacks. But after she herself became Black she recounted on many occasions
the discrimination she faced as an African-American woman, with mile high dookey braids, in the largely white
community of Spokane…loon doesn’t do her justice. I guess her race just comes
and goes dependent on the benefits afforded to her.
Here’s
the deal being Black is not something that you can just put on and take off.
It’s not a fad. And to be clear, misappropriation of Black culture is nothing
new but this is some new level shit.
This woman has publically called out Iggy Azalea the White female rapper from
Australia for attempting to be down
and for her insulting racial affectations. She said as a Black woman she was
insulted…except you’re not a Black woman you nut ball. She attacked White
people who became involved in the Black Lives Matter movement saying that because
they’re White they would not be able to understand the perspective of Black
people and their plight in this country for equality. Talk about projection.
I
don’t know, maybe she felt bad about the Howard
lawsuit or felt some kinship to her Black adoptive siblings. But how do you
look at her work authentically when she claimed to look at situations through
the eyes of a member of an affected racial group when in fact she wasn't?
There
are several Whites around the country who lead chapters of the NAACP and there always have been. In
fact the NAACP was started by White
people but none faked being Black. The organization has a rich history of a
racially diverse leadership, both at the local and national levels. To be clear
just because you have shared the Black
experience (whatever the hell that means) does not make you Black. You
want to work for causes go right ahead but “you
ain’t got to lie Craig”. Her deception was unnecessary and insulting.
