So I’m watching the Rachel Dolezal documentary. You should watch. It’s crazy how she became black to basically be a resource for her adopted siblings and to disassociate from her parents mistreatment.
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The real miscarriage of justice in all of this is Rachel’s adoptive sister Esther. Her sexual abuse case is not being tried because of the media storm all this has caused.
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It’s also interesting to note how angry and resentful her son is. He just wants to forget everything. They need to talk to him in a few years when he’s not a teen anymore.
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Rachel really thought she had a community in black people. But she would’ve still had the same community if she was honest about her ancestry and what had called her to this work. Instead she co-opted it because being an ally wasn’t good enough.
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Her story is definitely complex, but not as complex as she wants us to believe. She was drawn to blackness out of her proximity to it and it felt better than the white religious culture she was born into, so she made a choice.
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I commend her for actually doing the work. She was really the president of her chapter before all of this was revealed. I just wished she’d be honest in her identity. You don’t get to crown yourself black because the white is trash. Whew Chile. The disassociation.
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