Well, other people’s self-identity was apparently her business:
…Dolezal sought out a volunteer of Hispanic background to be questioned.
The student, who told BuzzFeed News that she identifies as Hispanic, grew up in a Spanish-speaking country, speaks the language fluently, and, while she has light skin, believes she has a “pretty solid experience of what it’s like to be Spanish.” She raised her hand to participate.
“I think we should ask another student,” the student recalled Dolezal saying in class.
The student asked why she could not participate.
“Rachel said I didn’t look Hispanic,” she said, and that her instructor “doubted that I could share experiences of racial or ethnic discrimination because I didn’t have the appearance of looking Hispanic.”
I recognize tan marks too. My wife has them every summer from her one piece bathing suit. I get the rather unflatteringfarmers tan. Because I hike a lot and also do yard work.
A white lady pretending to be black wouldn’t fool me. Theres too much obvious difference in a tan and a naturally dark complexion.
There are numerous people who could call themselves black, due to ancestry, who are assumed to be tanned white people. Seeing a woman with a darker face and a pale body is not solid proof that they’re a white person pretending to be black.
I’m not sure what photos you’re referring to. There are photos of me standing next to black guys too, but none that I was ever married to. In Dolezal’s case, she was married to a black guy at one point. Then she got divorced. As noted above, she began being black after she got divorced.
I’m not so sure that she hasn’t had a reasonable facsimile to black experience. She can pass as a light-skinned black and she likely has experienced some of the adversities that black people face in the US. She definitely has some serious mental issues and I doubt anyone was harmed by her to the extent that she has damaged herself. I think she has some long-repressed family issues to resolve and could benefit from therapy. I’m just not getting the outrage directed her way.
…Dolezal sought out a volunteer of Hispanic background to be questioned.
The student, who told BuzzFeed News that she identifies as Hispanic, grew up in a Spanish-speaking country, speaks the language fluently, and, while she has light skin, believes she has a “pretty solid experience of what it’s like to be Spanish.” She raised her hand to participate.
“I think we should ask another student,” the student recalled Dolezal saying in class.
The student asked why she could not participate.
“Rachel said I didn’t look Hispanic,” she said, and that her instructor “doubted that I could share experiences of racial or ethnic discrimination because I didn’t have the appearance of looking Hispanic.”
Was the student permanently traumatized? I doubt it. I’ll grant you she may be a first-class bitch and this was a perfectly assholish move on her part, but the adverse effect on the insufficiently Hispanic student was minimal at best. So one person decides to change her race and gets busted. Big fucking deal.
Who cares if she was permanently traumatized? That’s a ridiculous thing for a professor to do (and would remain so whether she was actually black, or Hispanic, or of any other race or ethnicity.)
I’ll grant you it was a preposterous thing to do and she should have been disciplined if not fired from the school for doing so. And it’s perfectly ironic that a fake black lady singles out an Hispanic student for not looking sufficiently Hispanic. I get that. But I can’t see world-class outrage over it. Shitty thing to do, yes. On a level with sexual advances toward a student, no.
This is a laughably bad post. You know, at the end of the day, she still has the luxury of being white. If she was ever on the receiving end of “the adversities” we face as black people, she could still go home, wipe off her bronzer, and just be white. We don’t get to do that.
