Years ago our neighbors had a prized white German Shepherd. They paraded that poor dog around and bragged on her until the whole town was tired of it.
They had certificates framed on the wall showing that dog's pedigree.
At backyard barbeques this dog was their singular topic of conversation. How bright and intelligent she was, how as soon as she was old enough and the vet cleared her they were going to breed her to another white German Shepherd.
Sure enough the time soon arrived and after painstaking and careful research they found their prized white German Shepherd a suitable mate.
And mated them.
In front of professional dog trainers and handlers and a veterinarian.
About two months later she gave birth to?? A big batch of chocolate lab/shepherd mix puppies. <------(Because someone wasn't telling the truth and dogs don't lie).
Just saying...who really cares about any of this? WHO CARES?
Ask yourself why it is that as a nation we have to swarm in on someone who makes a mistake and just POUND them into the ground.
She lied.
She lost her job.
She's been publicly humiliated.
Her own parents went on national tv and called her out even though from all reports their own household is a den of chaos and anger.
Don't you all have anything better to do than to virtually STONE this woman? Let her identify with who ever she wants.
Spend your energy feeding kids who go hungry all summer long.
Spend your energy visiting some old people who don't get any visitors.
Spend your energy doing ANYTHING ELSE but absolutely slaying someone on the public guillotine of opinion.
As a nation we can do better. As a people we can do better.
Who cares? I care. More specifically. I don't care about what color RD is, nor what color she wants to be, nor what parts of black culture she's interested in owning or living, and I don't think her self-created mess raises any profound issues about identity.
I think the whole discussion about those "issues" is ridiculous, frankly, manufactured by an exposed liar and amplified by the media because spectacles increase ratings. So we have saturation about the spectacle, and little factual context, because that apparently doesn't sell as well.
So why do I care? I care because I'm always interested in people who violate their positions of trust and power, especially when those violators are supposedly advocating for issues I find meaningful. Racial justice is one of those issues.
I also care because liars and bullies bother me. Tremendously. Just do, both in my personal life and in the broader world, for reasons both personal and philosophical, and I don't feel apologetic about my revulsion.
Caring about this story also provided me the unexpected and delightful occasion to examine my own bias towards fundamentalist Christians. I'm appalled at myself that I assumed the worst of her parents, largely because of their beliefs, and that RD and siblings might well have been damaged because of the "rigidity" of those beliefs. I sure wasn't alone in making those assumptions. Reading others' biased assumptions (especially in "lefty" publications) made me aware of my own. I'm glad I cared enough to follow and reflect on this story.
And on that note......RD did not grow up in a chaotic household. That's just inaccurate. It sounds like the introduction of 4 adopted black children may have profoundly changed family dynamics, but how could that not have been the case?
What I haven't heard discussed-probably just as well- is whether or not any or all four of those children had significant deficits when they were adopted. Healthy happy secure folks, black or white, don't put their babies up for adoption. Where I live, for example, black babies in need of foster or adopted homes are virtually certain to have been born addicted to the drugs their mothers used during pregnancy, which increases the odds of lifelong emotional or cognitive impairments. I think it's very likely that RD's parents faced challenges from those adoptions they didn't envision or maybe didn't know how to handle.
gain" meaning to help advance her narrative). Perhaps people will be more likely to move on when she does so. 
