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Mother of Washington state NAACP leader says daughter falsely claimed to be 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.
"It's very sad that Rachel has not just been herself," Ruthanne Dolezal said. "Her effectiveness in the causes of the African-American community would have been so much more viable, and she would have been more effective if she had just been honest with everybody."
Ruthanne Dolezal said that her daughter began to "disguise herself" in the mid-2000s, after the family had adopted four African-American children.
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.
According to the Spokesman-Review, members of other organizations that Dolezal has belonged to have raised questions about her ethnicity as well as hate crimes that she has reported.
A former board member of the Kootenai County (Idaho) Task Force on Human Relations, which employed Dolezal for three years as the education director for its Human Rights Education Institute in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, told the paper that he was concerned that she had been hired without proper vetting of her background.
Kurt Neumaier also told the paper that he was suspicious of several racially motivated incidents reported by Dolezal while she was in Coeur d'Alene. One specific incident he cited was the discovery of a swastika on the Human Rights Education Institute's door on a day when the organization's security cameras had been "mysteriously turned off".
"None of them passed the smell test," Neumaier said.
The Spokesman-Review also reported that Spokane police records for February and March of this year showed that a hate mail package Dolezal reported receiving at the NAACP's post office box did not bear a date stamp or barcode. Postal workers interviewed by police said it was highly unlikely that they had processed it and said it could only have been put there by someone with key.
Dolezal has denied putting the package in the post office box, and the paper reported that it has received several pieces of mail written in the same style that have been date-stamped and postmarked from Oakland, Calif.
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... and anyone who imagines otherwise must ipso facto be racist.
“But is it possible that she might actually be black? The best way that I know how to describe this and I want to be very careful here. Because I don’t want to say it’s equivalent to the transgender experience.
"But there is a useful language in trans and cis, which is to just to say some of us are born cis-gendered, some of us are born trans-gendered. But I wonder can it be that one would be cis-black and trans-black, that there is actually a different category of blackness, about the achievement of blackness, despite one’s parentage.”
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry
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... as the moralist of Northup's religious more times often animadverted:
The sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons, down to remote generations.
Rachel Dolezal Sued Howard University For Discriminating Against Her For Being White
Rachel Dolezal, the former president of the Spokane Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), sued Howard University for discrimination in 2002, according to court documents obtained by The Smoking Gun.
Dolezal alleged that the school denied her a teaching assistant post, a post-graduate instructorship, and a scholarship because she was white, according to The Smoking Gun.
Dolezal, who then went by Rachel Moore, claimed that the school and Howard Professor Alfred Smith discriminated against her "based on race, pregnancy, family responsibilities and gender" while she was a graduate student in fine arts, according to the Court of Appeals opinion.
She also claimed that the university's decision to remove some of her artwork from a student exhibition in February 2001 "was motivated by a discriminatory purpose to favor African-American students over Moore," according to the court opinion.
Judge Zoe Bush dismissed the complaint in February 2004 after finding no evidence that Dolezal was discriminated against based on race or other factors, according to The Smoking Gun.
Dolezal resigned as president of the Spokane NAACP on Monday after multiple news outlets reported last week that she had been pretending to be black. Dolezal's parents describe themselves as white and claim that Dolezal is also white, even though she had said numerous times that she is of African-American descent.
Former Spokane NAACP president Rachel Dolezal, who was the cause of a national furor when she was outed as a white woman last week, could potentially be a plagiarist to boot.
Twitter user Jolieishere noted Sunday that there was a striking similarity between a painting Dolezal posted for sale on her blog back in 2012, and British landscaper J.M.W. Turner’s 1840 work The Slave Ship.
Dolezal (who studied art at Howard University) offered to sell her version of the painting alongside two others, and “3 poems that interact in a call-and-response dialogue with the paintings.” No price is listed, but a note above the artwork offers free shipping for purchases that exceed $2,000.
Of course, we can’t rule out the possibility that Dorezal identifies as J.M.W. Turner.
Her painting is for sale at http://www.artpal.com/dolezal?i=12713-8
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For example, a few days back NBC asks this provocative and ridiculous question of it's viewers in it's tease for the story prior to commercial break.
"Why would the parents of this rising NAACP leader out her as white, while she claims to be black?"
Stupid, upside down logic aside,.........
The parents did not initiate this "outing". In it's own segment NBC revealed that the Spokane media tracked her parents down and the parents confirmed what the Spokane media had already discovered. But NBC and seemingly ALL the media outlets continue to promote and repeat and repeat and repeat this narrative (lie) that the parents outed her.
Why? Do the reporters in Spokane have a problem taking credit for breaking this story?
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
If that's the case i'm 210lbs and identify at 190!