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Anyone else following this mess? It's wild.
Yesterday, it was uncovered that the head of some NAACP chapter in Washington I think wasn't actually black but instead a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman with two very white parents pretending to be black. She's also - allegedly - generally full of shit and has over the years invented "racism" that her "black" self has suffered, including going so far as to send herself "hate mail", etc.
Anyways, today that has evolved into a troll movement of people saying "What's wrong with identifying as black? Why are you shaming someone for identifying as they see themselves? Why can someone born male change to female and that's respected, but this poor girl identifies as black instead of white and get blasted in the media?" And the #WrongSkin is now trending worldwide.
These are strange times indeed...
Race of Rachel Dolezal, Spokane NAACP head, questioned - CNN.com
Yesterday, it was uncovered that the head of some NAACP chapter in Washington I think wasn't actually black but instead a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman with two very white parents pretending to be black. She's also - allegedly - generally full of shit and has over the years invented "racism" that her "black" self has suffered, including going so far as to send herself "hate mail", etc.
Anyways, today that has evolved into a troll movement of people saying "What's wrong with identifying as black? Why are you shaming someone for identifying as they see themselves? Why can someone born male change to female and that's respected, but this poor girl identifies as black instead of white and get blasted in the media?" And the #WrongSkin is now trending worldwide.
These are strange times indeed...
Race of Rachel Dolezal, Spokane NAACP head, questioned - CNN.com