pbrower2a
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« on: May 02, 2017, 08:53:01 PM » |
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I have seen at least one women who was apparently been born white, married and had children by a black man, and had restyled themselves as black. Maybe not fully black, but black enough to avoid some of the dirty looks that many white people give to white women with a black husband and biracial children. The skin tone that she has affected is dark enough that one ignores her stereotypical Caucasoid features, and she may have affected frizzy hair.
In one such case I saw that her skin near her hairline was very pale. I was far too polite to ask any questions. Were I in her position I might have done the same. It might be best for her biracial children as well as herself. Nobody likes dirty looks. It's not a matter of choosing any 'black culture'.
In the case of Rachel Dolezal, she seems to have chosen to affiliate with black people very militantly. Maybe it is rebellion against repressive parents -- and she associates blackness with freedom from the norms that she knew. She has made political statements by going black.
Her loyalties are obvious; she is the definitive 'race traitor'. But this said, I can imagine nothing less harmful to betray than 'race'. I suggest that we let people pass unless they are so inept and unsuited to it that they make a travesty of it or if they do things harmful to their loved ones, as passing for white and so insisting that one is white that one joins the Klan or a neo-Nazi group and spews hatred of people who used to nurture them for 'race'. Being elected to the Presidency of a local NAACP chapter is not anti-white behavior. The NAACP is not anti-white.
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