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NAACP Leader Exposed as White Woman in Blackface
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excelsiorlef
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This has fuck all to do with being progressive.
Cabbagehead
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Progressive within reason.
keltickennedy
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See kids...if you want something hard enough you too can make your dreams come true!
I want to know too, cause folks keep saying this. is it truly progressive if you can only understand a black woman's struggle is if she is a white woman?
Velcro Fly
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i don't even know if some of the hashtags on twitter are being sarcastic or are being serious
i just don't know how to react to this other than pure shock that this is a thing
i just don't know how to react to this other than pure shock that this is a thing
teruterubozu
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So which progressive are you talking about?
1) she should be free to do anything she wants.
2) she is co-opting ethnicity and it's wrong
Dufase19089
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Sorry if this had already been posted:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollyw...-my-newest-trans-black-sister-rachel-dolezal/
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollyw...-my-newest-trans-black-sister-rachel-dolezal/
This is a worthwhile topic.
For some people it touches on their beliefs about transgendered people.
For others it touches on the applications of affirmative action and the whole white native american issue.
For many more it touches on how race is a social and/or biological construct.
A lot of people want to focus on the appropriation aspect.
A small minority want to settle whether her actions constitute as fraud in specific situations.
Her actions touched a very important nerve in American society and it deserves all the attention it is getting.
"You are what people see you as, not as you want to be."
*wretches in disgust*
Sibersk Esto
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lol at "crackersona"
Black face isn't progressive in my opinion.
uncredited male
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I wonder what would happen if she left her kids unattended in a park?
I dont care about arguments because I know they are false, im just showing what is the problem of indulging this weird theory of transethnics, it gets in the way of caregivers doing their job because people start to normalize what is fundamentally a symptom of mental illness, it makes the person less likely to get help if you have other coming from a place of ignorance telling her that its okay to act like your biological father is your stepfather and a complete stranger is your real dad. Read that last sentence again and tell me in which part of transethnics does this fit?
If a kid tells me she is a princess ill tell her she is right, if an old man tells me that he feels that his hand is possesed by demons and moves on its own, well im not gonna tell him he is right and go get a priest, im gonna get him a CT scan cos it might be AHS.
Gaf on its own usually isn't shit.
And not indulging this woman in her lunacy has nothing to do with being progressive. Some of this does, however, offer a telling insight into some poster's opinion and understanding of transgender and now apparently even gay people.
maquiladora
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Not sure if this has been posted already, it's not written by her, but someone else on tumblr who identifies as a black woman.
http://blackwomenvalues.tumblr.com/blackidentity
http://blackwomenvalues.tumblr.com/blackidentity
methane47
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LOL this is great!
The Silver
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Weaboos were the original trans-racials, where's the support for them?
either a parody or nonsense. Probably both. It's terrible to read
bobbychalkers
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DoktorEvil
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Is that English?
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I guess I don't understand how this line of thinking doesn't apply to transgender (or maybe it does but what's the real difference?). Is it wrong to say you are of a gender not of your birth? You can only like those gendered things?
I think this makes people uncomfortable because it's not a recognized class of people. That is, we don't have a cultural concept of it and that makes us skeptical especially when we are sensitive to race, no so much in classic antagonistic way but in the hyper defensive way. It's also odd because two opposing versions of this sensitivity culture are meeting. I'd expect at present that the more understood and studied version (appropriation of blackness) will win out. I don't feel it will be that way in 50 years.
maquiladora
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The author of that, Milo Yiannopoulos is a right wing dude, big supporter of gamergate amongst other things....
Didn't read too closely, but I'm not seeing anything incorrect at first glance (though the gender stuff has some kinda shady intent imo).
Chie Satonaka
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I already did.
I don't have any problem calling a spade a spade. If I was accusing anyone of racism, there'd be no confusion in my words.
Anything else you'd like to clear up, friend?
Is this really black face?
excelsiorlef
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That was total nonsense
methane47
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Isn't that what Michael Jackson do?
The Transethnic Pioneer!
Great in a "Jon Stewart and the daily show" type of way.
This whole story is ludicrous and I'm loving how everyone's brains are exploding (including mine)
excelsiorlef
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He had a fucking skin condition. Like an actual malady
LiquidSword
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People are posting trash from Milo now? In that article he brings up Leigh Alexander for no reason other than she is actually biracial and says she could lose a few pounds and step into this women's place. Get that fucking shit out of here
methane47
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Skin condition didn't force him bleach his entire body and straighten his hair and file is nose down to a razor blade edge!
She can be a fool like everyone else who says it.
excelsiorlef
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Fuck yes to this.
Chie Satonaka
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She's adopting an identity that isn't hers. She's putting on a costume of blackness and co-opting a culture that she might be empathetic to, but that she has no actual identity with. She's talking down to black men (Tyrese) and women (if that social media posting of the girl that was in her class is to be believed) about blackness and black issues as a white woman, masquerading as a black woman, while married to a black man. I suppose if we're trying to define it exactly, "blackface" might not be the best term, but it's certainly as wrong as that, and probably even worse given my above examples. She doesn't get to decide what being black is and lecture people about it.
It's still a hilarious story, but it's outrageously offensive that people here and other places are legitimately trying to give her a pass, as if any good that she might have done makes this okay.
My comment was more aimed at the "open minded" (as you call them extreme liberals) people calling her transracial, or suggesting "if she feels black, she's black".
As in, they're so open minded, they're failing to see reason. So you could say, I was trying to be rude against the "extreme liberals" (or rather, make a joke at their expense) and not the women in the OP, who might have serious issues.
Lan Dong Mik
And why would I want them?
I'm laughing but I actually feel really sorry for this woman. I can't imagine the embarrassment she's feeling right now. So I'm assuming she'll be fired or let go for not being black then? This is fucking weird man.
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Hahaha
keltickennedy
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Welp, she is now seen as a liar and a fraud.
"Not being black" isn't a fireable offense at the NAACP. All the fraudulent shit she pulled might be.
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