Rachel Dolezal, Spokane NAACP leader, falsely portrays herself as black
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"Controversy is swirling around one of the Spokane region’s most prominent civil rights activists, with family members saying the local leader of the NAACP has falsely portrayed herself as black for years.
Rachel Dolezal is president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, chair of the city’s Office of Police Ombudsman Commission, and an adjunct professor at Eastern Washington University.
The Spokesman-Review reported Thursday that questions have arisen about her background and her numerous complaints to police of harassment. The story was first reported by the Coeur d’Alene Press.
Dolezal’s mother, Ruthanne, says the family’s ancestry is Czech, Swedish and German, with a touch of Native American heritage.
Dolezal has identified herself in application materials as white, black and Native American.
Police say they have found little evidence of racial harassment.
By Labor Go To PostDoes everyone around her have extreme myopia or what
Update: Rachel Dolezal's parents claim she is passing off her two younger adopted black brothers as her own sons.per buzzfeed
http://t.co/Mdl9FieoLu
Y'all gotta see East Washington though. Spokane is basically an oasis in between high desert and Coeur d'Alene. And people who do their hw should know what Coeur d'Alene has.
This is extraordinary
I mean, its not racist despite the blackface because she so clearly wants to be black
so
what is it
I don't understand
I mean, its not racist despite the blackface because she so clearly wants to be black
so
what is it
I don't understand
I keep seeing more and more people comparing this to being trans and it's really annoying. Like proudly braying their ignorance about both issues.
Like it's mostly just jokes, but don't try to validate this woman. She did do good but she could have done it as herself and not in costume
Like it's mostly just jokes, but don't try to validate this woman. She did do good but she could have done it as herself and not in costume
................ WAT?
WAT?
WAT?
First off, Spokane is fuckery personified. Whole city on some fuck shit. *Scust at everyone in Spokane* Spokane is easily the worst city in the country. Why couldn't she embrace her whiteness and represent African-Americans from that perspective? I bet she had some FYE back in her youth as pristine pure white angel unadulterated.
WAT?
WAT?
First off, Spokane is fuckery personified. Whole city on some fuck shit. *Scust at everyone in Spokane* Spokane is easily the worst city in the country. Why couldn't she embrace her whiteness and represent African-Americans from that perspective? I bet she had some FYE back in her youth as pristine pure white angel unadulterated.
J10 with the Hall of Fame comments from the other site
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=167454575&postcount=514
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=167454575&postcount=514
This whole story is so...bizarre.
On the plus side, I can't wait for the movie about this starring Emma Stone.
On the plus side, I can't wait for the movie about this starring Emma Stone.
By DY_nasty Go To Postgo to 8:17
https://youtu.be/oKRj_h7vmMM
lol
"I don't understand the question" isn't a good escape route for someone who thinks for a living.
By reilo Go To PostLovingsteam lived in Spokane for years. JUST SAYING.
I'm not surprised. There's like 3 black folk in Spokane. It's also referred to as 'Spokcompton', I kid you not. And EWU? lol. And DY, damn straight.
By reilo Go To PostThat's some dedication to that hair considering she's got the straightest hair lmao.A friend of mine knows her. Said she's a really sweet lady, has done great things for the black community and he never once suspected she was in fact black.
By lovingsteam Go To PostA friend of mine knows her. Said she's a really sweet lady, has done great things for the black community and he never once suspected she was in fact black.Hopefully it'll just go down as an embarrassing episode and she can keep on doing the great work she's been doing.
The media will never leave her alone though. It's probably the biggest national story right now, which is kinda crazy.
By KingGondo Go To PostHopefully it'll just go down as an embarrassing episode and she can keep on doing the great work she's been doing.
The media will never leave her alone though. It's probably the biggest national story right now, which is kinda crazy.
Anything that gives racist white bigots ammo turns into a huge national story because it's got the most powerful news organization peddling it on a loop
By King Riovane Go To PostOle girl looks like Jolene Blalock in "Slow Burn"she kinda bad
i need to research this for science
By MagusKen Go To Postapparently it's just a TF2 comic with the face replacedat your image.
By DY_nasty Go To Postshe kinda bad
i need to research this for science
She played T'Pol in star trek enterprise. She definitely could get it.
http://mic.com/articles/120732/rachel-dolezal-former-naacp-leader-sued-howard-university-for-racial-discrimination
ooop
In the 2002 suit, Dolezal, who was then known as Rachel Moore, claimed the university had unfairly passed over her for appointment as a teaching assistant and denied her a post-graduate instructorship, Smoking Gun reported. The suit, which named the school and professor Alfred Smith as defendants, specifically "claimed discrimination based on race, pregnancy, family responsibilities and gender," and argued Howard was "permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule and insult."
The suit also argued the school removed a number of pieces of art Dolezal made for a student exhibition, saying the decision was "motivated by a discriminatory purpose to favor African-American students."
The case was ultimately dismissed, and Dolezal was ordered to pay the university more than $3,500 in related court costs.
ooop
By DY_nasty Go To PostSeeing people defend her shit is just the most puzzling thing though :/
my facebook feed has been horrible
By blackace Go To Postmy facebook feed has been horrible
Ta-Nehisi Coates got all kinds of weird hate for saying that this shit is negligible considered alongside (and that it draws essentially all of its meaning from) things like Browder's death in unlawful custody.
How people jump on that as unreasonable, let alone as some kind of misogyny - I don't fucking know.
HQ @HarlighQuinn 7h7 hours ago
@tanehisicoates only cares about black males; not the actual BW that birth them, raise them or march and organize for them #MsgReceived
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