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

[LaborDayRN]

Donjeta-- absolutely brilliant post #493!! Post of the day!!

Geez-- Rachel Donezal is a piece of work in her own, special little category.

And, in closing, I want to say to all of you, that I am proud and humbled to carry the burden-- YOUR burden, and be the voice of the ENTIRE human race, when I post here at Websleuths. I willingly shoulder this burden for cosmic justice for extraterrestrials, as well. And audio animatronic transbiological beings. And muppets, who are not accepted by the puppet community, nor are accepted by marionettes. I speak for these disenfranchised beings as well. Because somebody has to be willing to step up and further the dialogue. (Just don't anyone tell Tricia.....)

I'm not quitting this post, I'm just limiting the length. And despite what you all think, the color of my keyboard does not represent which operating system I choose to identify with. That's my personal business. :takeabow:

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:giggle: :woot:

 

[kimi_SFC]

Donjeta-- absolutely brilliant post #493!! Post of the day!!

Geez-- Rachel Donezal is a piece of work in her own, special little category.

And, in closing, I want to say to all of you, that I am proud and humbled to carry the burden-- YOUR burden, and be the voice of the ENTIRE human race, when I post here at Websleuths. I willingly shoulder this burden for cosmic justice for extraterrestrials, as well. And audio animatronic transbiological beings. And muppets, who are not accepted by the puppet community, nor are accepted by marionettes. I speak for these disenfranchised beings as well. Because somebody has to be willing to step up and further the dialogue. (Just don't anyone tell Tricia.....)

I'm not quitting this post, I'm just limiting the length. And despite what you all think, the color of my keyboard does not represent which operating system I choose to identify with. That's my personal business. :takeabow:

:silly:

:ufo:

Then this post gets an Honorable Mention nomination vote from me! The two are must-reads, in tandem, IMO


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[Donjeta]

She was also mistreated when she left HREI

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/jul/28/human-rights-educator-resigns/
2010:

The education director of the Human Rights Education Institute in Coeur d’Alene has resigned, citing “issues of fairness and equity” after she was passed over for the institute’s top job.

“For all intents and purposes it was a forced resignation,” said Rachel Dolezal, who has worked for the past two years for the institute, which was established to combat racial intolerance through education.

Dolezal said she wrote the institute’s board of directors two weeks ago seeking to be named executive director. She also submitted her letter of resignation, contingent on the board refusing her promotion.

While she was education director, Dolezal, who is multiracial, said she was the victim of racial harassment, slurs and threats against her and her son by white supremacists.

http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_5d0836f1-07f5-5520-88e7-7ef50f42e22f.html

Dolezal told The Press Monday that she resigned from the institute because she was the target of discrimination, although she would not say what kind.
"I don't want to comment on that at this time, just that it's a justice issue," Dolezal said. "It's about fairness and equity."

JMO but she is a victim of discrimination whenever she doesn't get all that she wants and some places that she's worked at are very glad to be rid of her.

 

[Hope4More]

I'll delete this post if it is misunderstood, but for some context:

As I've posted before on WS, I worked with Holocaust survivors for many years, supervising them and other Jewish volunteers as a research director for a national nonprofit.

I learned early on that the Jewish community believed in and honored an hierarchy of survivors, depending on how much survivors had suffered during the Holocaust. Lowest on the rung was to be Jewish and to not have family in Europe during those years, then Jewish and to have had family who escaped as the Holocaust unfolded, then Jewish with family murdered, but who did not get sent to a concentration camp. The pinnacle of acknowledged suffering was to be Jewish, have family murdered, and to have survived a concentration camp.

That heirarchy is largely an acknowledgement of a real and legitimate range of horrific suffering, but it also orders social relationships. Those who suffered most are automatically deferred to and granted respect and status no matter who they are now or what they have or have not done since the Holocaust. Their status is a result of surviving, even triumphing over those who sought their total annihilation.

IMO Rachel discovered early on that something roughly equivalent is true in the black community, which is why she chose black, not Native American, and why she was relentless in claiming victimhood.

 

[katydid23]

I hope her 13 yr old has some other influences and supportive people in his life. She sounds like she could be a very toxic type of mother---the way she plays the victim everywhere she goes. Poor kid. He sounds like he has his head screwed on straight, from what he told the LE about the 'intruders'. I just hope he can land somewhere safe during this current, tense time. :candle:

 

[SCHMAE]

She was also mistreated when she left HREI

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/jul/28/human-rights-educator-resigns/
2010:






http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_5d0836f1-07f5-5520-88e7-7ef50f42e22f.html



JMO but she is a victim of discrimination whenever she doesn't get all that she wants and some places that she's worked at are very glad to be rid of her.

She's something. She seeks director and resigns at same time knowing she won't be made director. Makes you wonder if the folks at HREI smelled a rat ? Maybe someone told her they suspected something about her background and she threw a fit. mooo

 

[EllieBee]

When you are in the booth it sprays the front, then a disembodied voice tells you turn around and it sprays the back. You hold your arms up to get your armpits when it sprays the front, then you put your arms down when it sprays the back. Your butt crack is on it's own. There are also mobile spray tanners that will come to your home and spray you.

Does anyone remember the "Friends" episode where Ross gets a spray tan but he gets confused in the booth and gets sprayed twice on his front and nothing on his back? LOL!

And I'm not a verified tanning expert :crazy: but to me her skin looks too pale to tan that well from a UV tanning booth. And in the close up pics of her hand they have that same look that mine did, like the color kind of sinks into your pores? IMO she spray tans, but I could be wrong.

http://www.bestdaily.co.uk/television/i553527-1/friends-the-one-where-ross-gets-a-spray-tan.html
http://www.hercampus.com/life/entertainment/13-lessons-we-learned-friends

Ha ha that episode was hilarious!

I will say that I am very close in coloring to the real RD and I tan very quickly and deeply and seldom burn.

But in the winter, you need shades to look at me because I am fish-belly white.

I only tan outdoors, but if I used a tanning bed in the winter months, I could easily maintain RDs adopted skin tone.

So, it might not be a spray....but who knows?

 

[rachaellouise]

I still agree with her parents point that she would've gained more popularity and notoriety in the black community if she was this white candidate working hard for black rights instead of deceiving everyone.


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[Donjeta]

She loves all the attention:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...al-steps-president-Spokane-chapter-NAACP.html

 

[EllieBee]

Wow! Way to not own up to your mistakes/ lies/ deceit! Wonder what her next step will be? She'll probably make a killing on the interview circuit.

It is never the fault of the narcissist. It is always someone else's fault.

 

[Donjeta]

If Dolezal's cocktail of copyright infringement and artistic "blackface" appeals to your aesthetic tastes, lucky for you: Two of her works are available for purchase on eBay. The two charcoal on elk hide portraits depict an older black man and a young black child.

The caption for the drawing above reads: "A hand-drawn charcoal depiction of a black man adorns elk-hide leather -- bridging Rachel's youth spent hunting elk in Montana with her deep involvement in the black civil rights movement."

If you're interested, bidding starts at $5,000, and for just $50,000, you can own the charcoal immediately.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...ml?ir=Black+Voices&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000047

 

[EllieBee]

I understood her (I speak academe), I was just astonished by what she was saying.

Asked the open -ended and very fuzzy question about what was "normal" for black women, Rachel launched into a long rift about appearances. That she felt she had to be perfectly groomed and dressed and spoken at all times in white society , because she was representing the whole black race, and that it was normal for black women to feel thAt way.


Digging herself in deeper, she said that it was different in the black community, that it was OK to go to the store in slippers to get buttermilk because fellow black folk understood that you was just tired or some such.

Racist much, on top of everything else that is wrong with all that?

Huh. I hope MY observation does not come off as racist, but I, and most of my white female friends in our 30's, 40's and 50's spend our off-time (and some of us who are fortunate enough to have dressed-down jobs, our work time) in shorts, yoga pants, jeans, flops, etc. Little or no makeup and a messy bun. Kind of the middle aged white lady uniform around here.

On the other hand, I would say that black women in our same age group are much more put together, especially for a run to the store, etc.

It always makes me think "I should really make a bit more effort in my appearance", or as MY mother would have said "For God's sake, Elle, put on some lipstick and run a comb through that rat's nest!". :lol:

That said, I do not know if this is the case with younger women. Perhaps it's a generational thing and younger white women dress up more?

Meh, it's probably more of a location thing than a race or age thing anyway.

 

[gitana1]

I guess it was a sort of a gradual change but her parents said it started around 2007 and the brother Ezra gives the impression that it started getting serious more recently.

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She already looks slightly fake tanned here in this 2009 photo but apparently she still admitted her true parentage and hadn't yet switched to claiming the AA male was her bio father.
ww.thefigtree.org/dec09/120109hreicda.html

The commenter DS on the NAACP petition (currently i'm seeing her as nr 332) said that she met several Caucasian members of Dolezal's biological family (dad, older brother, and uncle) during Rachel's time at the HREI so if she's for real, apparently Rachel hadn't yet adopted all her lies back then.



According to her Linked In (for whatever it's worth, it looks like she's full of BS) she was at HREI in 2005-2008, and I think in 2009 anyway because the Fig Tree article putting her there is dated Dec 2009
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/rachel-dolezal/34/a55/577
http://www.thefigtree.org/dec09/120109hreicda.html

According to http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/u...ent-accused-of-lying-about-her-race.html?_r=1


If the coworkers met her biofamily it seems like the 13yo son was also likely to have interacted with those family members who weren't committed to the racial deception and gotten a picture of who all was in the family.

According to the paternal uncle, she only adopted Wilkerson as her dad 2-3 years ago.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...r-accused-child-molestation-article-1.2257560



JMO but if he's a bright 13 year old he knows that something is a bit strange if someone who was a close family friend before suddenly is his grandfather.

I'm sure there are things that the child will reflect on later that he may notice as odd now. But kids generally accept what their parents tell them.

She worked (or volunteered) for HREI as a black woman. Her hair is totally dyed brown and braided in the photo. She was already pretending to be black in 2007/2008 when she worked for the program.

I don;t think her son has any idea she is a poseur. Maybe just that certain odd things have happened.

 

[DebinGA]

Short dress with plunging neckline + stiletto heels ... just an average mom on a Walmart run.

 

[EllieBee]

I was watching "The Wendy Williams Show" this morning and she addressed this firestorm surrounding RD. She is fascinated by it and she stated that "black knows black" and that she could see how RD could pass for black if she presented herself that way. What WW could not understand was "why"?

If RD had pursued this career in AA studies and felt she could only be taken seriously if she were AA, that I can kinda understand. Where she did a huge disservice to the AA community IMO, was making all those false reports of hate crimes.

IMO, most of us go through a struggle of discovering who we really are and our true selves when we are teens and young adults. We evolve over time and hopefully find our own truth. It would be interesting to hear why she chose this path if she were to be truthful. However, IMO, I don't see her being truthful, which is a shame.

If she had chosen to advocate for the AA community as a white person, would she have been taken as seriously as if she were AA? I don't know. Is what she has done an insult to the AA community or harmed anyone besides herself? I don't know the answer to that either.

I was reading on a predominately AA forum (and they never use AA on there, but Black) and the general (but not unanimous) censensus seems to be that there are far too many black people (especially BM, not as much BW) "caping" for RD and it's white people that are the ones getting so angry about this.

Also, while it would have been preferable to pursue her interest in black studies while being her genuine self (or even adopting the look, without lying about her ethnicity), I do think she would have been met with a ton of opposition. But it is what it is. I expect black people feel that way most of the time, quite frankly.

Again, I have no issue with RD self-identifying as black, or even changing her look. I have tried about every look there is depending on what I am currently "in love with".

But I do agree it was wrong to actually lie and say she was "black", even though I still assert that humans are one race biologically, and she was lying about a cultural "race" rather than a biological one.

Still, we live in the world of the "one-drop rule" and as odious as I find that, it is generally accepted by people of all skin tones, so majority rules....

 

[EllieBee]

They took her for a black woman because of her portfolio. She mostly drew portraits of black people and submitted that to the University. She got that scholarship fair and squire.

I agree. From what I read, she never claimed any race on her application. The University assumed she was black from her portfolio and were rather surprised she was white. Her brother said she was treated rather badly at Howard because she was white. And this is the brother who minced no words calling her out on most everything else.

I also had a friend who received aid for being Puerto Rican. While he did grow up there, he was not, ethnically speaking, Puerto Rican. Since he did not misrepresent himself, he accepted the grants.

 

[RickshawFan]

Listen to this wonderful example of 'UNIVERSITY SPEAK'----it is a kind of gobbedly gook, IMO:



n a Facebook post, Dolezal said she was stepping down because the dialogue about race and injustice in the country "has unexpectedly shifted internationally to my personal identity in the context of defining race and ethnicity."

"In the eye of this current storm, I can see that a separation of family and organizational outcomes is in the best interest of the NAACP," she wrote.


LOL, what does that even mean?????

That's not "university speak": most academics try really hard to use clear language in general contexts and language that is shared by others in the circles they publish in (or when in discussion with colleagues). RD's written language is just plain gobbledygookish BS, no "university" ingredient at all. Plus, RD has no academic credentials to speak of, and would not be described as an "academic" or on a "university faculty" or a "professor", since she was only teaching adult continuing education non-credit classes. The latter take zero credentials.

RD is evidently thrilled that she has become a focus of international discussion. However, her masquerade is not about race so much as it is about fraud (misrepresentation), theft (misappropriation of another person's artwork), child abuse, and civil damages. Not to mention traffic tickets. She evidently thinks she's above the law. It's on these topics—as well as the deplorable way in which African American folks are treated without recourse in this country—that discussion should be focused. IMO.

 

[Donjeta]

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/rachel-dolezal/34/a55/577
http://www.artpal.com/dolezal

Her vast array of Life Relevant Skills includes Mental Health, Creative Writing, Creative Problem Solving and Facebooking.

Copy Editing Creative Writing Social Networking Event Planning Press Releases Journalism Teaching Mental Health Editing Public Relations Grant Writing Art Media Relations Blogging Leadership Development Social Media Strategic Planning Organizational...Adolescents Public Speaking Facebook Copywriting History Art History American History World History Fine Art Visual Arts Art Education African Studies African Diaspora African Art African History African American History Social Marketing Social Media Marketing Social Sciences Event Management Board of Directors Non-profit Director Engaging Public Speaker Presentation Design Presentation Development Management Program Management Creative Problem Solving Creative Services Multicultural...Multicultural Education Fundraising

Besides all her other remarkable accomplishments, she is also a sushi chef, a legal secretary, a ballet dancer and a model.

She has taught arts, math, history, diversity, biology and piano. Her anatomy expertise that she gained from drawing humans and the two days experience of subbing in the biology class of disinterested middle schoolers uniquely qualify her for graduating from medical school without ever attending one.

Doležal taught biology to middle school students in Post Falls, Idaho and hopes to combine her medical knowledge, her skilled hands, and her passion for human rights to engage in life-saving trauma surgery efforts around the world. Her other experiences include work as a legal secretary in a community law office in Mississippi, Zulu & ballet dancer, sushi chef, African hair stylist, model, political campaign manager, and mother. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, gardening and cooking.

At Howard University she excelled in:

Instruction of Drawing I and Anatomy Drawing, Developed collaboration with Gross Anatomy lab for medical/art intersections, Assisted in founding HUYAA (Howard University Young Artist's Association) for high school students to study art on campus - recruitment effort, won 13 graduate division juror awards for outstanding work.

All this while being racially discriminated against, no less.

She is also a licensed intercultural and diversity Trainer and has taught Race & Ethnicity at Whitworth University, Anatomy Drawing at Howard University, and participated as a guest lecturer at Spokane Community College, University of Idaho, and Washington State University.

Director, Cardinal Connections
North Idaho College
2009 – 2011 (2 years)Coeur d Alene, Idaho
Oversight of college symposium connecting campus and community. Working with students, staff, faculty and administration. Oversight of committee & volunteers. Management of budget, networking, marketing, social media, event planning, hosting out-of-town speakers, working with campus facilities.

No, wait, that's not what she did. She is a professor...

Doležal is a professor in the Art Department at North Idaho College and the Advisor for the Black Student Union at NIC.

Master Artist, Model, Ethnic Hair Stylist, and Piano Teacher
Dolezal Studios
January 1997 – Present (18 years 6 months)
Award-winning international artist, with master works in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking and collage.

Because everyone thinks the master artist didn't write this herself.

Campus & community development through volunteerism and research. Petitioned for first annual celebration of MLK Day & led coordination for 250 student volunteers to work with Habitat for Humanity, Petitioned & developed first African American History course on campus with Dr. Ronald Potter as instructor, held first one-woman art show at Smith Robertson Museum with Black Poet's Society performing works inspired by my art.

When she works while studying it's not to get more money, it's because she is a socially conscious feminist.

Tutored 25 kids ages 6-12 after school to help single moms in West Jackson.

Taught Black History, Math & Art to students at Veremiah House summer camp. Taught drawing at Classical Christian Academy.

 

[RickshawFan]

Yes, she still had her long blonde hair back then, and wasn't pretending she was biracial.
So if she felt she wad discriminated against for being white (as alleged in her lawsuit) that could explain why she started pretending she was black.

RD's hairdos in her "black" phase don't ever seem to show any roots. This factoid either means, to me, that she colored her hair every other day or wore a wig.... No way blond hair wouldn't show roots?

 

[gitana1]

I thought that too, but changed my mind after reading Donna S. on the NAACP petition.

I think Rachel uses claims of victimhood as a means to get whatever she feels entitled to, including power and recognition.

IMO she's a bullying manipulator who has routinely used false claims of victimhood to shield herself from scrutiny and from being challenged. I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn this dates back as far as her claims during divorce that her husbsnd abused her, or even earlier.

I agree. But being seen as a heroic victim can be part of that too. Her motives do not have to be limited. This woman is a Machiavellian opportunist of the worst kind and likely has histrionic and narcissistic personality disorders as well, in my (admittedly) inexpert opinion. I wish a real psychologist could weigh in!!!

But I note that a lot of people who do these types of things, make their kids sick for attention, lie to be perceived as "better" than they are, or more important than they are, or lie to gain an advantage, etc., share certain traits such as being practiced manipulators.

Her history of manipulation and lies about how great she is exhibit that:

1. She grew up in a teepee and hunted her own food with a bow and arrow (that was for attention and recognition, not power).
2. She was abused as a child, physically, and sexually and experienced trauma.
3. She collected berries (or whatever) to pay for her own school uniforms and supplies (look how great and special I am).
4. She lived in South Africa
5. She rescued her abused brother and adopted him.
6. She gave back to the community by doing ethnic hair.
7. She saved a troubled mixed-race girl’s life by doing her hair because her white mother was incapable.
8. She is the voice of the entire black race.
9. She is an artist (who copies famous artists without giving them recognition).
10. She is bisexual (attention).
11. She single handedly transformed the Spokane branch of the NAACP and heroically turned it into something worthwhile.
12. She suffered abuse from her husband and had to flee from him with their abused son.
13. She is super sexy and so irresistible that men make songs and videos about her.
14. She is supporting and assisting her brother’s molestation victim.
15. She is a professor who has worked at EWU since 2007.
16. She has suffered nine separate hate crimes but heroically presses on and fights hard to protect her son.
17. Her son is brilliant and has learned the lessons she and the world has taught him about white privilege so well that he makes stunning statements that show he knows how bad he has it as a black male.
18. Her father has lung cancer.
19. She had cervical cancer.

Etc., etc.

This woman’s tall tales have become so elaborate and ever more indicative of her heroism and victimization that they defy logic. That’s where her sickness or personality disorders, IMO, her pathological desire for attention, not just power, comes in and supercedes her quest for power. Because her tall tales were her downfall. If she had not continued to make up stories about hate crimes that miraculously do not happen to actual black people in the community, but only to her, I think she would’ve likely gone on this way for a long time and continued to rise in the ranks.

But she could not control herself and her need for attention.