WA - Civil rights activist Rachel Dolezal pretending to be black, parents say #1

[RickshawFan]

She's done!

Her mother said that she could have acquired everything she did even if she had been honest. That's probably true. Deception was unnecessary. The deception will probably cost her everything, except her art.

http://racheldolezal.blogspot.ca/

Did she "do a Jodi Arias" and trace it?

 

[otto]

The concept of "race" is an artificial one that has little basis in biology.

If you accept anthropology, then there is a basis in biology, specifically with distinct differences in bone structure. These differences represent one method that forensic anthropologists use to determine the identity of unidentified remains.

 

[kimi_SFC]

She has a masters of fine arts in experimental studio and sculpture from Howard University. If she wants to apply to medical schools, even as a "non-traditional admission", she has years of prerequisites to complete-- lots of math and science that fine arts degrees don't include.

IMO, this statement on her faculty bio was pure braggadocio/ wishful thinking, as a way to for her to add even another "notch" on her bio, and "one up" everyone else that is a mere mortal. This is a highly unrealistic plan for how her career has progressed and unfolded.

She didn't bother talking about the classes she DOES teach-- she chose to include this flaky fluff about medical school and trauma surgeon instead. That's just incredibly messed up, IMO.

Her brother/ son is now 21 years old. So there is no longer a need for any custody issues. She still considers him her son, and has referred to him as such in several interviews. Here again, she emphasized she is the mother of 2 BLACK sons. What mother describes their kids that way?? She feels she needs to keep on emphasizing their race. Can you imagine if we all did that?



BBM.

http://spokanefavs.com/an-interview-with-rachel-dolezal-the-new-spokane-naacp-president/

This explains her ability to pull off the hairstyle:

(snip)

Kelly: So you’re sacrificing money and income for yourself, to take on more unpaid leadership in the community?

Rachel: [...] I’ll also be cutting back on my hair clients. Being an ethnic hair stylist is really a community service, as well as bread and butter for me. I can fall back on doing hair when I need to make an extra buck.

Doing hair is like a social outreach sometimes and many of my hair clients are my friends or younger girls I mentor. We get to know each other well, especially when I’m doing a six-to-eight-hour braid job. (She laughs.)
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[otto]

Did she "do a Jodi Arias" and trace it?

I knew an artist who used a slide projector to project art onto the blank canvas - then he painted the art and called it his own. It's probably a technique that was used in art school in the 90s. Rachel might have done something like that with the Turner painting.

 

[otto]

This explains her ability to pull off the hairstyle:

(snip)

Kelly: So you’re sacrificing money and income for yourself, to take on more unpaid leadership in the community?

Rachel: [...] I’ll also be cutting back on my hair clients. Being an ethnic hair stylist is really a community service, as well as bread and butter for me. I can fall back on doing hair when I need to make an extra buck.

Doing hair is like a social outreach sometimes and many of my hair clients are my friends or younger girls I mentor. We get to know each other well, especially when I’m doing a six-to-eight-hour braid job. (She laughs.)
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I see it as another deception. Rachel probably tells authentic blacks that they can have her permed dyed look if they pay her enough money - fraud, deception, and a form of theft.

 

[RickshawFan]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/13/rachel-dolezal-blackface-race-brother

Wow! She is just full of it! I'll bet her previous employer knew there was something wrong. It does seem mind-boggling that no one in Spokane evidently found this article until recently. I'll bet RD moved to Spokane because folks were getting on to her in ID.

 

[Hope4More]

I bought her brother's book on Kindle and am just beginning to read it. Will post from it if find anything relevant.

PS- her parents were "Jesus People" in the 1970's.....hippies that took up "radical"
Christianity. Whatever that means. About to find out, I guess.

 

[Hope4More]

Ok....that was quick. He says his parents claimed Jewish traditions as their own -despite not being Jewish- because they saw them as being part of Christianity. Oh.

 

[LadyL]

THis one is a 'must read"...:facepalm:

http://www.inlander.com/Bloglander/...es-are-destroying-the-social-justice-movement


I asked my son yesterday if he is all ready for seventh grade. Without hesitation, he said, "Ya, pretty much. I've got basically everything except white privilege." His words have been haunting me ever since, with the memory of last year starting out with him getting a concussion, followed by other bullying incidents and social challenges at school here. What exactly does white privilege mean to a 12-year-old embarking on seventh grade …at Sacajawea Middle School? What does white privilege mean in Spokane, or North Idaho in general? I think of him turning 13 this October and feel powerless to spare him from the daily reminders of white privilege, or maybe more accurately white supremacy...

there's comments from 2014 there from people accusing her of lying, hoaxing, and being white

 

[RickshawFan]

I would think there are some hair stylists out there who have helped her achieve some of her looks and might have wondered about façade versus real. Seems to me the intricate coiling where every hair is participating would be hard to achieve on one's own.

To me, it looks like a wig.

 

[RickshawFan]

The comments under her artwork have already started.

RD's portfolio of paintings is very diverse. Does it come from the hand of one artist?

 

[Hope4More]

Parents lived in a teepee for one year, as they built their own home. The back to the land thing was about removing themselves from everything except the land and their faith.

Their children were raised cut off too. No TV, no outside influences allowed. Describes his father as incapable of demonstrating love, and totally focused, rigidly, on his fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible.

Her brother often felt guilty and unworthy....

 

[Zuri]

Could someone please clarify the following for me? My brain is not working.

Why did the parents come forward at this time? Was it the investigating journalist that did the research and called the parents for comment? And why was he investigating her? I can't remember how this all came to light. Thank you so much!

 

[otto]

Parents lived in a teepee for one year, as they built their own home. The back to the land thing was about removing themselves from everything except the land and their faith.

Their children were raised cut off too. No TV, no outside influences allowed. Describes his father as incapable of demonstrating love, and totally focused, rigidly, on his fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible.

Her brother often felt guilty and unworthy....

Having a large garden that feeds a family over the winter, and no TV, is not a hardship, but I get the impression that Rachel and her brother thought it was a terrible life. It's unfortunate that they don't see that their parents were today's environmentalists - one generation too soon.

 

[otto]

Could someone please clarify the following for me? My brain is not working.

Why did the parents come forward at this time? Was it the investigating journalist that did the research and called the parents for comment? And why was he investigating her? I can't remember how this all came to light. Thank you so much!

One of the articles - don't know which one anymore - said that the media requested documents related to the investigation into hate-mail. That was the beginning of the media investigation. They tracked down her parents and presumably one of the first questions would be whether they were her real parents - since clearly they are not black. The news reporter then confronted her:

http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-news/Raw-interview-with-Rachel-Dolezal/33533466

 

[Hope4More]

Her mother miscarried her first baby, at around age 18 or 19, one year or so after the teepee. She was at home, and bleeding profusely. She refused to go to a hospital or to allow anyone to come take care of her, saying she was prepared to die if that was God's will.

 

[Zuri]

One of the articles - don't know which one anymore - said that the media requested documents related to the investigation into hate-mail. That was the beginning of the media investigation. They tracked down her parents and presumably one of the first questions would be whether they were her real parents - since clearly they are not black. The news reporter then confronted her:

http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-news/Raw-interview-with-Rachel-Dolezal/33533466

Oh thank you Otto! You made it really easy for me to understand. Xo

 

[RickshawFan]

No. She got a scholarship because Howard assumed she was black, based on her art portfolio. She can't be held accountable for that. It doesn't appear she broke any rules there.

It sounds as though RD is not accountable for Howard's assumption that she is black, but did they vet her portfolio? Presumably she's accountable for the artwork she submitted? But did they check?

 

[EllieBee]

How would it be conservative, religious and white if she had a number of adopted black siblings?

Quiver Full has no limits. More babies, more better. Raise them up to break their spirits. Adopt more for the Quiver.

 

[otto]

Her mother miscarried her first baby, at around age 18 or 19, one year or so after the teepee. She was at home, and bleeding profusely. She refused to go to a hospital or to allow anyone to come take care of her, saying she was prepared to die if that was God's will.

Was it a first trimester miscarriage? I ask because that doesn't necessarily require medical care.