Revisiting What Won't Go Away!

She Put in the Work!

"Guys, I don't get it. I really don't. Here is a woman who is doing her best to help and advocate for the black community. Until her true race was revealed, no one knew she was white. She lived and identified as an African American. This woman chose to forgo her white privilege to immerse and live in a culture that is unfairly demonized and eons behind in social construct and equality and yet she chose to be there because she felt so strongly about it. How is this a bad thing? Doesn't that make her an ally? She literally put that skin on and wore it." ~ Talia Gamble

Rachel Dolezal in August 25, 2015 above the fray, above the city.

"Rachel, I think you are a strong, powerful woman and I couldn't care less how you identify race. However, I will bet that if you took a DNA test there would be traces of black in you. When you are a strong woman many will come for you and try to destroy you. You have and I truly hope you will continue to help as many people as you have because in the end it is what you put into this world that counts. I have a tremendous amount of respect for what you do and how you continue to stand strong against the bullying. Anyone who decides to target you is only because you project something they lack. May GOD Bless you." ~ Yvette Cruz 

Thought around Rachel Dolezal

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Rachel Dolezal’s True Lies

There is a community Facebook page called I Stand With Rachel Dolezal that simply says, "This page is for people who support Rachel Dolezal. If you do not support Rachel. Please do not post or comment." As a consequence to date only 82 people have 'liked' the page.

 

To get a better understanding of her complexity her dissenters need a voice in this forum. At the least, Black Americans need to be heard on each side because the subject of "passing" is the central issue here. Rachel Dolezal is on the other side of "passing". And the question "Why" has grave impact because white Americans have had the upper hand in the identity of Black Americans and Black Indians like myself. It is a cruel subject Rachel Dolezal brought up and having a forum that favors only those who are for her is the language of white Americans fighting for something outside the reality of major players of this paradigm.

 

Even Cher's comment, "Why did Rachel Dolezal's parents out their daughter? It was cruel. I don't know why she chose her path. But who doesn't want to have Black cool?" is the same kind of thinking that Blacks endured from whites before law changed Jim Crow into a subjugated spirit. Blacks speak amongst ourselves with unbridled resentment about Cher who thinks she is hip, or 'one of us'. Whites here in the States fence themselves as a means of protections by words like this because they can pretend that race does not matter when it does by their own design and convienence.

Now that being said how does one side support Ms. Dolezal and create community? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories



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There is a story about Rachel Dolezal written by Allison Samuels here worth reading. The story.