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NAACP Leader Exposed as White Woman in Blackface
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Cabbagehead
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Yep QFT NAACP does shit like this more often then not lol.
EatinOlives
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Agreed. The NAACP is sure as hell NOT going to come out and say "yeah guys, we fucked up by allowing an incognito black woman who is actually white lie and deceive us for years. She fooled us, the single largest and most influential organization on black rights. We can't even tell white people apart from black people in here, and not in the heartwarming 'we don't see race' way either".
And they're certainly not going to kick her out, because the crones at Fox News are going to have a field day saying the NAACP is being exclusionary or some shit.
This is just political PR deflection so that they don't come under fire and are taking the path of least resistance.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
From what I understand, that's how she got the presidency in the first place.
"You gonna press her?"
"I'm not gonna press her."
"I'm pretty sure she's a white woman, though."
"You know that. And I know that. But what happens when we let her know we know that."
"Man, I don't even know."
"I mean, it's not like we got a lot of Black people here"
"I know, Steve."
"This is Spokane."
"I know Steve"
"Hair game is pretty solid, too."
LaserBuddha
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It's not a thing, people are always plucking the dumbest shit they can find on a twitter or Tumblr post, and making shit articles that just pose a question like "Is transracial the new thing?" or some other bullshit. People pretend fringe things like this are mainstream to try to paint social progress as having jumped the shark, because they resent social progress. It's real like the knockout game is real: it's not.
ArkhamFantasy
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I watched some Fox News last night, they were PISSED that people are claiming that racism still exists, they were like "TELL THAT TO PRESIDENT OBAMA!".
Im not joking, they literally said that. I dont think the NAACP should worry about what they say.
Get this crazy woman out.
The irony.
Ether_Snake
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Well she must have felt under a lot of pressure being white while wanting to be black, what if you were in her position? Maybe you'd do that kind of stuff too.
First minority race-relations spokesperson that has something to say.
Her birth certificate. Solidifying the fact that Larry and Ruth are her birth parents, that she is ethnically Czech/Swedish/German. She is not and will never be a black woman in America. A lot of you need to stop making up medical terms, or coming up with the greatest hypothetical sob stories about how she could've been staring into a mirror crying and not feeling in the right skin. It's disingenuous as shit.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
The perfect response.
EatinOlives
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I mean yeah, you're right, Fox News is gonna Fox News, nobody should walk on eggshells trying to please them when their entire raison d'etre revolves around throwing eggshells under people's feet the instant before they step.
But the "WHITE woman kicked out of NAACP because she's WHITE. Just how inclusionary are these people HMMMM??????" angle is going to fuel the fire of racists for years. I'm going to predict that this is at least partly the reason why they're trying to sweep this under the rug.
Know what is good for stress? Telling the truth from the start
the NAACP doesn't care about her twitter antics apparently. And the death threats being faked, they're not going to co-sign on that, because they probably do get a lot of legit racist hatemail in the upper Northwest anyway. I don't blame them for wanting to take the highest road possible, a geostationary orbit.
No one can absolve her. But no one cares enough to damn her other than eyerolls and serious serious ridicule.
Being ethnically Czech/Swedish/German doesn't make her not black.
This is some Ianucci shit.
The organization doesn't care about any of that stuff though. "Can you fundraise?" "Can you organize folks when shit hits the fan?" Yes? You're hired! Her mixed up identity is not a hill they would ever choose to die on... They are happy that "NAACP" was trending on Twitter today.
excelsiorlef
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Can we actually just acknowledge that "transethnic" doesn't even apply here anyway. She's not claiming she was born white but is now black. She's literally claiming she has a black biological father. That'd be like a trans woman claiming she was born with a vagina.
dr3upmushroom
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yeah, he forgot about the Black viking tribe.
But the NAACP ain't shit for that statement (and ain't been shit for decades, but that's a rant for another thread) because it can actually be damaging.
A lot of people aren't going to bother looking up the facts and minor details of this story. A lot of people are just going to go for the major bits. Bits like a statement from the NAACP itself. And the NAACP just completely misconstrued the entire debate to make it seem like black people are just getting uppity about a white woman working for their organization, which is exactly how the ignorant are going to take it.
This is the fucking NAACP, they should know better. But, as I said earlier, the NAACP as an organization ain't been shit for decades.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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I like that racists are still so pissed about Obama 8 years later that he's still used as a distraction to say "look at how not-racist we are because we let one black man have something."
Ether_Snake
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What if a transwoman claimed she was born with a vagina? Tell me what you would say in that case.
Did you watch the interview she did? She says she no longer speaks to her biological parents and the person she claims was her dad is the person she loves as a father.
https://youtu.be/YkFi0D7mt24?t=1m49s
Damerman
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inb4 read the thread.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Oh my lord, there's a literal scientific reason behind a person being transgender. It's not the same. And you aren't that guy, you're at least like the tenth guy to use that comparison.
excelsiorlef
Member
Is everything a fucking gotcha moment in this thread?
Her family said they cut off contact when she lied about being beaten like a slave as a child.
Chie Satonaka
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Walking around in circles
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EatinOlives
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At this point the tactics seem to be "let's try to get people to inadvertently admit they're transphobic, then I win the argument!!"
Ether_Snake
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Well how is it gotcha? You compared it to that, I'm wondering what would that do? Seems like people can't make up their minds.
excelsiorlef
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Then why in stories prior is her biological father referred to as her step father?
Because she didn't want what is happening right now to happen.
Except as I've said numerous times already, there is no such thing as transracial/transethnicity. The term has literally been made up within the last day. I wonder what all of you would've done or said if this story broke a month before the Caitlyn Jenner story came out.
Honestly, it reads like more of you are upset about trans rights and the Caitlyn Jenner story than about anything to do with this article. You just want to conflate the two for some reason.
Honestly, it reads like more of you are upset about trans rights and the Caitlyn Jenner story than about anything to do with this article. You just want to conflate the two for some reason.
My mind interprets it as " Lets show how little I know about things I pretend to know".
xaosslug
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and this is only Day 1, and a Friday at that. Come next week? Who knows how far they'll distance themselves from her mess. If twitter is any indication the community IS NOT having none of it, and will let the NAACP know loud and clear.
The problem I have with this argument is that still a pretty exclusive attitude that values arbitrary distinctions over peoples' actual experiences. Would you be comfortable telling a trans person they aren't actually trans because of MRI results? What are your thoughts on non-binary people?
JeTmAn81
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Well, you can go too far the other way. Being elected president is a little bit more than letting one black man have "something".
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
Well, the term has entered actual consciousness in the last day.
... But it only existed prior in the shithole of /pol/.
You know what it is, bruh.
excelsiorlef
Member
I suppose she could be gender queer which falls under the larger transgender umbrella but they don't usually use trans women as their identifier.
Or intersex but they generally don't use trans woman either.
Do you feel you sufficently got me yet?
It could be damaging, but when you're in a burning building, the fact that the curtains are catching fire is probably secondary to whatever else is going on in your head at that particular moment. They seemingly ignored completely any kind of 'black people getting uppity about anything', and switched the focus back on to whoever has been harassing Rachel and the NAACP in past years. Because they don't care about Black Twitter outrage, or Huffington Post's disapproving giggles.
I do expect her to quietly resign her post, but the NAACP isn't going to try to seek any relevancy out of this debacle. They want it to go away soon.
How many white women out there masquerading as black women? We know of at least 2. How many black people out there with crosshairs on their back, be they economic, educational, social, or literal? If they pass on this, I understand.
I think its far past worrying at this point.
Fisticuffs
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It's annoying
Uhuh and there has been literally ZERO studies on this situation with rachel. So how could you possibly say one way or the other how Rachel is feeling inside?
How can you say its not the same? Isn't that a crazy assumption to say?
I was trying to be diplomatic.
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