NAACP head in Spokane is actually a white woman with a bad spray on tan

JoeTheDestroyer · June 13, 2015, 01:06:17 AM

http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-news/did-naacp-president-lie-about-her-race-city-investigates/33533026

http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-news/First-on-KXLY-Rachel-Dolezal-responds-to-race-allegations/33539322

More embarrassing news from my home...

Newt · June 13, 2015, 08:35:41 AM

She lied.
That's the sticking point.

So what if she was born 'white' and her genetic antecedents were Swedish, German and Czech? From all indications she *feels* she is black, considers herself black, identifies as black. Funny: if we were talking gender nobody would argue.

Yes I am being facetious. But...?

eta: per one of the comments "well I guess she will be one of the first "brave pioneers" in the world of trans-ethnicity....."

LilCerberus · June 13, 2015, 12:06:40 PM

Keeps reminding me of that episode of 3rd Rock From The Sun in which the Solomons are trying to figure out what race they are...

If this woman were playing Nina, Dick wouldn't have been the only one who needed that post-it note...

indianasmith · June 13, 2015, 11:57:51 PM

I guess I'm just old fashioned.

I wish people would be happy to be who they are.

Newt · June 14, 2015, 07:04:33 AM

Quote from: indianasmith on June 13, 2015, 11:57:51 PM
I wish people would be happy to be who they are.

I'm certain that is what they would tell you they are trying to do: be who they feel they really are.

indianasmith · June 14, 2015, 08:49:51 AM

What you are and what you think you are may not necessarily be the same thing.

I think I am Adonis.

My wife thinks I am Buddha.

RCMerchant · June 14, 2015, 09:04:43 AM

I dont know what to think of this-other than shes a liar-but shes a human rights activist-or shes a liar trying to make a name for herself promoting herself as a human rights advocate.
Hmm-I'd say shes a phoney liar.

Newt · June 14, 2015, 12:15:46 PM

The outer surface other people 'see' in passing is not necessarily what you 'are', either.

I think these days it is understood to work more along the lines of "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he".

But the real issue is she lied outright. Now I am reading that not only did she claim that photo (in the news clip) was of her biological father (which it was not), but she also has been claiming one of her adopted brothers is her son (also not true) and she accepted a scholarship that was supposed to go to an African-American student. Woman is truly messed up.

lester1/2jr · June 14, 2015, 08:31:34 PM

It's a good scam. or it was

Black people come in so many different shades and maybe they have an accent or maybe they don't. looking at her and listening to her now of course she's white, but if it hadn't been brought to my attention it wouldn't have occured to me to doubt it. again, a good scam.

Ed, Ego and Superego · June 15, 2015, 12:24:06 PM

I'm
1) Not 100% informed
2) being a bit judgy here
3) refraining from turning this isn to a sitcom plot

But this feels a bit like mental illness one way or the other.
-Ed

lester1/2jr · June 15, 2015, 05:59:29 PM

I agree. When you watch her speak she is not really black and she's speaking about fake incidents which she made up and reported. It's insane.

Trevor · June 15, 2015, 07:49:07 PM

And according to reports, she's resigned from the NAACP.

LilCerberus · June 16, 2015, 02:37:37 PM

This wasn't funny thirty years ago, and it's even less funny now.
Soul Man (1986)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091991/

lester1/2jr · June 16, 2015, 04:43:33 PM

They should look under her porch. I'm a firm believer in where there's smoke theres fire. She's a legit sociopath

JoeTheDestroyer · June 17, 2015, 10:40:49 AM

That she identifies as black doesn't bother me.

That she used African-American culture for personal gain, that rubs me the wrong way and leads me to believe she might be a bit mentally ill. If I'm not mistaken, she took on this identity in college when she was supposedly persecuted against (she went to a mostly black college and was allegedly the subject of racism). I wouldn't be against thinking that the experience drove her insane.

Personally, I wouldn't compare her to Caitlyn Jenner. Jenner was up front from the beginning that she felt like a woman and Dolezal hid the fact that she wasn't originally black. That to me either says scam artist or nut job (or both).