Lord, thank you, this NEEDED to be said.

Glad I posted this.

Wow, that's a very interesting article.

It's funny, a lot of people are saying they're bored or sick of this story. I can understand that. But for me it leads to a lot of great articles like this one.

I'm tired of reading about hillary stinks, bernie can't get elected, who would you vote for in a year, the tpp, fast track, everything sucks. A lot of that stuff bores me to tears.

It just keeps going and going.

I've been gone most of the day.

Sister Esther. The parents think Esther is mentally ill. Rachel supports Esther.

This is too much. If he did it I hope he is punished.

I keep thinking that it's finally over, but then something else starts up.

I go away for a few hours and there's like five more crazy ass things that are revealed, rofl.

ethics rules.

http://news.yahoo.com/former-naacp-leader-dolezal-found-violated-ethics-rules-181815292.html

Man, this story just gets crazier & crazier.

with part of the family in denial about their active role in them.

Rachel is a product of her family system.

precise and true, as always. I fell into the cultural trap described in the article, but not for long. The Ebony article put everything concerning this story into historical perspective. Needed as a reminder.

At first I was feeling very empathetic towards this lady, but I felt like I needed to explore my feelings about it a bit more. After I did I was mad.

And still - it wasn't enough. I know a man still in a blind rage over that . . .

When Black men are violated or insulted, the Black community’s response is typically pretty clear: this is wrong, this should not have happened, our men deserve better. When Black women are under the gun that is not the case. Prior to the McKinney incident, I can’t recall an instance in which there was so much collective outrage at the mistreatment of a Black female and we had to literally see a teen girl in a bikini getting tossed around by a White police officer to summon it. It seems that regardless of her intentions, Dolezal’s crime against Black womanhood is pretty clear and that all of us should be offended that it happened. Alas, that’s not the case.

and glad you posted it here ... so we do not have to suffer another verse of "NotAllWhiteWomen!!!"

that woman as one of us. Some of them act like she is similar to light skinned black folks, and my husband takes offense to that. It's hard enough for my husband to be considered 'black enough', this woman is going to have folks checking black cards to negro events from now on. Somebody compared her to Ben Jealous. Like it's the same damn thing.

It's Miss Anne's turn?

that the only one the police should have arrested is the racist COW who started the whole thing by assaulting a teenager.

She's been suspended from her job, one hopes permanently, but she really belongs in jail--for assault, for inciting a riot, for wasting the time of the PD, take your pick. A night in a cell would likely do her a world of good.

Until the BIGOTS who usually start the whole thing off by making hyped up phone calls (see: a black man carrying an air rifle he was going to buy through WalMart) or by starting altercations with their big mouths pay the consequences, the above article will be sadly valid.

I'm not sure I could remain peaceful were it all happening to me and mine, but I did get the Irish temper along with the fish belly white skin. I am constantly amazed by the exemplary behavior of POC when confronted by bigots and bullies on a daily basis. And yes, as many of them are white women as are white men.

I too noticed immediately how for the first time in my living memory (white) people were 'outraged' at the treatment of black girls. Where's the outrage when black women and girls are routinely, disproportionately targeted for all kinds of violence?

And as far as Dolezal goes, appropriation sucks. Period.

I noticed that too. People were more defensive about her than the 12 years old girl who got her jaw broken by police.