Controversy erupted around a local NAACP leader in Washington state Thursday after family members told a local newspaper that she had misrepresented herself as black.
Rachel Dolezal is the head of the NAACP's chapter in Spokane and is also a part-time professor in the Africana Studies Program at Eastern Washington University.
The Spokane Spokesman-Review says that Dolezal described her ethnicity as white, black, and American Indian in an application to be the volunteer chairwoman of the city's Police Ombudsman Commission, a position to which she was duly appointed.
But Dolezal's mother, Ruthanne, told the paper that the family's actual ancestry is Czech, Swedish, and German, along with some "faint traces" of Native American heritage.One can see the photograph of this young, should we say "blonde" woman, at the linked article.
I particularly like the "faint traces" of Native American heritage. No doubt she is referring to her "Elizabeth (Pocahontas) Warren high cheek bones."
Additional quotes:
Rachel Dolezal did not immediately respond to her mother's claim when contacted by the Spokesman-Review, first saying "I feel like I owe [the NAACP] executive committee conversation" about what she called a "multi-layered issue."
After being contacted again, Dolezal said, "That question is not as easy as it seems. There's a lot of complexities ... and I don’t know that everyone would understand that." Later, she said, "We're all from the African continent," an apparent reference to scientific studies tracing the origin of human life to east Africa.Hillary and the entire GOP presidential slate are writing these phrases down as quickly as they can. These are priceless.
- "I owe them a conversation."
- "That question is not as easy as it seems."
- "There's a lot of complexity."
- "We're all from Africa."
- "Say what?"
Ruthanne Dolezal said that her daughter began to "disguise herself" in the mid-2000s, after the family had adopted four African-American children.About the time Elizabeth Warren was making history.
How can I go on?
Memo to self: insert "The Great Pretender" here.
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ObamaCare
From The Wall Street Journal, another huge ObamaCare myth. Those promises of annual spending caps. Absolutely false.
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