General News Black rights activist "misrepresents" herself as black

I saw this story. I mean, I honestly wanted to laugh the first time I saw it. She doesn't look black at all--she looks like a white person trying to fit stereotypes. The fact that she could get into a high-ranking position in the NAACP is insane. People are just now finding out she's not black?

Nonetheless, it seems like she might have some kind of mental issues; like you said, problems with her identity. It's kind of sad. I hope that in her work at the NAACP, she only helped the black community, even if she was never really a member of it.

 

Yeah I feel like she probably has some issues to work out, everything I read just screamed attention seeking to me. If she wanted to help the black community she should've done it without lying, it feels to me like she lied her way into a powerful position that could've gone to someone more fit for the position.

It also bothers me that some people are comparing her to transgender people :dry:

 

Poor woman needs psychiatric help.

 

She doesn't even look black... Maybe she's transethnic though

 

I'm not going to say whether or not she looks "black", but it pains me to see that she lied about this for so long. She may have problems she needs to sort out, but that doesn't discount all that she did for the NAACP and the black community. The NAACP is a wonderful organisation, and she represented it well, black or white.

 

I died of laughter when I first read this. First we were servants, then we were cannon fodder, then we were target practice (we still are), and now we're costumes for white peoole to put on and take off as they please. Bitches think they can put on some tired ass braids and some fake tan and call themselves black? No, ma'am.

 

She is not comfortable with being privileged in this day and age so she lies that she isn't. As a person who is part of many different minorities and has actually had to deal with racism and homophobia, I have little sympathy for her. That white privilege must be such a burden. There is nothing wrong with being an ally to black people.

 

Costumes? Now? The past did it much worse than she did it...

 

I've been waiting a while for something like this to happen, I knew it was only a matter of time until some social justice warrior 'blacked up' and pretended to be oppressed.

Here's where she was unmasked.

"Are you African American?", "I don't understand the question". Stupid woman.

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Is it wrong of me to laugh at this? Sorry but it's kind of funny :lol: but still obviously not right

 

OMG!
Skin color it's not gender that you ''consider yourself''. One thing it's a person who don't identified with your gender and see itself like opposite gender, other its a white person consider itself a black people! Gender it's a social construction but skin color not!

 

:lol:

 

I don't meant to offend, but I genuinely cannot tell if this is sarcasm. Particularly the last two sentence.

 

I have read about this.

I don't really know what to say but I am not really bothered by it as much as other people, she is just being who she wants to be and she seems to be a very open person and hopes that everyone is treated fairly. She went about it in the wrong way as no one should deny who they are but I honestly don't think she meant bad, I just think that she felt that everyone should be treated equal. That is the way I took it anyways, I could be completely wrong.

 

I think any good she may have done doesn't compare to the harm she has done by trying to use an identity that isn't hers and the racism of a white person disguising themselves as another race. (I don't even get why someone would do it temporarily. I mean if I want to know the experience of black people there are plenty of black people out there talking about just that. Why would I go ask a white person who pretended to be something else?) But I do think she has some serious psychological issues, even if that doesn't excuse her behavior.

 

Because clearly someone can't advocate for a racial minority without being of it herself. and her hairstyles... eugh. I'd be more offended by her supposedly sincere blackface getup than just admitting she's white as a viking and cares about other people. >.<

 

Tbh, I kinda feel bad for her (i only feel slight anger and would go as far to call her "stupid" for doing this) but for her to think she needs to be someone else (a different skin color entirely) in order to help black people is just makes me feel like she neds help in a mental-type of way