The Crying Game / TRANSGENDER DISCUSSION

[HairOfTheDog]

I watched the interview where she was asked straight up if she is African American and she said, "I don't understand the question".

And then she halted the interview and left.

My understanding is that's what prompted the interviewer to do a little research and contact her parents. They seem deeply religious and a bit "off" themselves (to me), but I don't blame them for telling the truth and outing her rather than going into hiding or getting spun into her web of lies.

It's making me laugh reading some of the comments attached to news articles by people defending her actions. Suckers.

If she were just one of those chicks or dudes who adopts the ethnic culture or lifestyle of those around them and is driven to fully acclimate, or a person who is passionate about helping to further civil rights for another segment of society, she wouldn't be a story. There are plenty of people like that. This is different.

Dolezal highjacked the black experience and claimed to have a personal lifetime of it. She falsely claimed a black man as her father in order to promote a public event that she, positioning herself as a black leader, was hosting. She falsely presented her black adopted brother as her son. She lied about her race on an application to get an appointment within the police department. She lectured black women, lamenting and advising them about a lifetime of dealing with 'nappy' hair and discrimination in beauty shops. She filed false complaints to police about being a victim of racially-motivated hate crimes, etc... And, she continually derided whites in the process of perpetuating her fraud.

I don't think she deserves to be arrested for it or anything (unless it turns out she committed crimes in the process), but the public shaming and mockery is more appropriate than the defense of her fraud as "the end justifying the means". She's no Rosa Parks.

Anyway, she can identify as black all she wants, like she now claims. It's the blatant public lies about it, for personal/professional gain, that make her a fraudulent asshole and hurts rather than helps the black community, IMO.