Rachel Dolezal memoir to explore 'discrimination while living as black'

[AngryAmish]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/31/rachel-dolezal-memoir-in-full-color-race-black-white?CMP=edit_2221

"Dolezal announced details of the book on her Instagram account on Monday, saying it will be titled In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World.

An Amazon description description of the book says it will explain “the path that led her from being a child of white evangelical parents to an NAACP chapter president and respected educator and activist who identified as black”."

[Jason1961]

1. She really needs to fade away

She's a punchline

[geek tragedy]

2. how can we miss her if she won't go away? nt

[linuxman]

3. LOL.

[nolabear]

4. M favorite schadenfreude poem about just my wish for this little tome:

'The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered'

The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am pleased.
In vast quantities it has been remaindered
Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been seized
And sits in piles in a police warehouse,
My enemy's much-prized effort sits in piles
In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs.
Great, square stacks of rejected books and, between them, aisles
One passes down reflecting on life's vanities,
Pausing to remember all those thoughtful reviews
Lavished to no avail upon one's enemy's book --
For behold, here is that book
Among these ranks and banks of duds,
These ponderous and seemingly irreducible cairns
Of complete stiffs.


The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I rejoice.
It has gone with bowed head like a defeated legion
Beneath the yoke.
What avail him now his awards and prizes,
The praise expended upon his meticulous technique,
His individual new voice?
Knocked into the middle of next week
His brainchild now consorts with the bad buys
The sinker, clinkers, dogs and dregs,
The Edsels of the world of moveable type,
The bummers that no amount of hype could shift,
The unbudgeable turkeys.


Yea, his slim volume with its understated wrapper
Bathes in the blare of the brightly jacketed Hitler's War Machine,
His unmistakably individual new voice
Shares the same scrapyart with a forlorn skyscraper
Of The Kung-Fu Cookbook,
His honesty, proclaimed by himself and believed by others,
His renowned abhorrence of all posturing and pretense,
Is there with Pertwee's Promenades and Pierrots--
One Hundred Years of Seaside Entertainment,
And (oh, this above all) his sensibility,
His sensibility and its hair-like filaments,
His delicate, quivering sensibility is now as one
With Barbara Windsor's Book of Boobs,
A volume graced by the descriptive rubric
"My boobs will give everyone hours of fun".


Soon now a book of mine could be remaindered also,
Though not to the monumental extent
In which the chastisement of remaindering has been meted out
To the book of my enemy,
Since in the case of my own book it will be due
To a miscalculated print run, a marketing error--
Nothing to do with merit.
But just supposing that such an event should hold
Some slight element of sadness, it will be offset
By the memory of this sweet moment.
Chill the champagne and polish the crystal goblets!
The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am glad.


Clive James

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Talking of Clive James: ‘Hillary should have told Trump at least once to go screw himself’

His latest "Reports of my death" column (named because when it became know how ill he is, everyone started up with the eulogies, but he's hanging on):

Donald Trump has not yet been elected president, so my plans to leave the planet are still on hold. I might have to leave soon anyway, but I would rather not have to book my seat on the rocket just because some baroque narcissist in the Oval Office had declared atomic war on North Korea, or South Dakota, or whatever target took his fancy when the hottest patootie in the West Wing typing pool swerved away from the outstretched plea of his tiny hands.

If Trump loses, we will still not be free of his extravagantly coiffed shadow, because the analysis will begin as to why he lost. Nobody sane will ascribe Hillary’s victory to her own command of language. If either of them commands the language, Trump does, by sticking a short finger in its ribs and walking forwards until it walks backwards.

Subjected to such treatment, Hillary was rightly praised for her poise, but she should have told him at least once to go screw himself. As things turned out, the figure who really had Trump’s number was Alec Baldwin on Saturday Night Live. Baldwin has the wrong mouth to be Trump – Baldwin’s mouth looks like a mouth – but in all other respects, he was a terrifying simulacrum of the terrifying reality, in which, no matter how much ordnance Hillary hit him with, Trump kept on walking forwards, like the robot Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still.

In pursuit of his aching pout, Baldwin kept on dialling up the inexorability, thereby tapping into any sane person’s deepest fear about the Donald: that he was built in a fully automated factory whose android engineers had studied no human being except a bilious infant in a cot. Those of us who used to be children ourselves can often only fleetingly remember that “I want” was once not just an imperative, it was an explanation. The world was something that might withhold the breast from us, unless we could threaten it with nuclear war.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/29/clive-james-us-election-hillary-clinton-should-have-told-trump

[nolabear]

7. NICE! Thanks!

[Starry Messenger]

13. Priceless.

Bookmarking.

[maxsolomon]

5. i'd vote for her over Trump in a heartbeat

Dolezal is delusional, but she's not a mean person. She comes from a seriously fucked-up evangelical family, and basically rescued her black adopted brother from her parents.

I have no clue what she's been doing to make ends meet in Spokane, and she has kids to feed. I have no ill will towards her.

[SouthernProgressive]

9. I'll read it. I find the progression of events to be amazing. nt.

[romanic]

10. I found her as a complete joke at first.

But I can't help but be intrigued by WHY she portrayed herself as being black.

[maxsolomon]

11. because she didn't want to be who she is - the simple answer.

I have no idea if she can look at her choices honestly, but there's been a lot of illuminating reporting on her past.

[NaturalHigh]

12. That's like me writing a book about discrimination against skinny people.