Anyone else think that as a young girl, a nose job would have made her look quite a bit like Jennifer Lawrence?
Well, I omitted it just for brevity, but I don’t think her behaviour is really a matter of innocent little tales or a “masquerade”, harming no-one. She knows that the internet exists, and her second name is still the same as that of her parents, so she ought to have realised it might be unwise to go around telling lies that might be found out. Unwise, and also pretty nasty.
I guess this must be one of those 1950s values that SA thinks we should return to.
If she’s lied about being a victim of hate crimes, she working against black people. I’m just glad she’s being outed as white at the same her claims are coming under scrutiny, because otherwise people would be seeing her dishonesty as emblematic of corrupt racist black leadership or some such.
I find it humorous that she is eliciting pity from so many people instead of outrage. If that’s not evidence were dealing with a white person, I don’t know what is. Lol.
Of course it is. One of the best things about the 50s was the way everyone lied about the race of their parents.
:rolleyes:
I think most people feel she’s dealing with a deep-seated emotional issue, ala Michael Jackson, where someone desperately wants to live as a person of another race. It’s got to be a very unpleasant way to live when you have to get up each day and put on makeup and different hair to make you look like you’re someone you know you aren’t and then have to go out and present that false image to the world.
Good point about the hate crime reports though. However I think they’re a rather minor issue. Al Sharpton has done worse by orders of magnitude and he’s considered a leader and spokesperson for the black community.
Bullshit. The overwhelming majority of the “jibes” made about transgenderism is directed at transgendered people. And the people who are doing this “funmaking” are exactly what you describe: social justice warriors hellbent to make sure everyone else conforms to their ideas about how to think. With a full helping of hostility toward anyone who doesn’t on the side.
Timmy!
I agree that she seems to be trying to live the life of a black stereotype rather than the life of an actual black person.
This made me laugh… out loud even!
I think this has more to do with social justice warriors realizing that people changing their gender helps the cause, whereas people changing their ethnic identity would just ruin everything.
But science doesn’t back up the social justice warriors. Race is a social construct and thus it is what we say it is. So if she says she’s black, and she’s living as a black woman, then she’s a black woman. I believe that sincerely, not just as a way to rib social justice warriors, even though it’s fun.
As for living a stereotype, isn’t this exactly what transgendered people attempt to do?
Or the claims that her adopted brother is her son?
I stop reading anything that uses the term “social justice warrior”. If it were paper, I would toss it in the trash like the trash that it really is.
Um…no.
I hope this fights your ignorance. It’s worth trying anyhow.
This whole thing is very strange. I do understand how you can have an affinity for a certain culture, buy why go this far?
It wouldn’t be a story, but I do think people who saw her original paler blonder straight haired look might wonder why she was suddenly tan with coily hair. People tan and curl their hair all the time, but I do think some people would have been a bit taken aback and wondered if it was nothing more than a stylistic choice or if she was trying to pass.
Don’t blame me, Rick kitchen, I picked it up from some of the board’s posters here speaking admiringly of their efforts. 
I think the question adaher and others raise is interesting. Why is it so improper for her to call herself black, if she truly feels like she was born black in a white body? What distinguishes her situation from that of a transgendered person? Another poster said it was that race is a cultural construct rather than biological, but I don’t see how that is pertinent to the issue at hand. Another person suggested that the distinction may be that of quantity; i.e. feeling as if you were born to the wrong race is not an issue that effects many people; she is probably an isolated example. I think this is makes sense, but what if suddenly lots of people start wanting to experiment with presenting themselves as a different race? What is the meaningful distinction?
How about the reams and reams of studies demonstrating that gender disphoria is a genuine medical condition that has a serious impact on the person’s quality of life? Is there any evidence at all that “racial dysphoria” is an actual thing, or that it causes measurable harm to anyone? Any evidence at all?
Gender disphoria is a thing, but the issue of whether or not it’s a disorder or whether people with the condition should indulge themselves is not settled science. It’s only settled politics.
Racial disphoria cannot be a thing, because race doesn’t exist. Therefore, it’s outside the realm of medicine. But it is still within the realm of politics, and the urge to reject it seems to me mainly based on the need of the social justice set to classify people by race. Letting people be any race they feel they identify with most ruins everything.
In the case of this particular person, she has lived as a black person since she was very young and has changed her appearance so that she was accepted as black in appearance for years. The NAACP has rushed to her defense and the only people that really seem to have an issue are her parents and some Twitter denizens.
In this article she mentions W.E.B. Dubois, and race being cultural.
I know that when I taught, children were allowed to mark whatever race they wanted on their standardized tests, and we were told not to question it. I can’t say that I ever looked at what they marked except to scan the answer documents to make sure everything was filled in. But then I just skimmed to make sure each bubble was filled, I didn’t actually read them.