I simply don't believe her when she claims to be "transracial" to account for her adopting a black heritage in order to compensate for her altogether white one. What was the point of her changing the texture of her hair and darkening her skin?
Don't forget that I've lived long enough in this country to both witness and personally experience how racial identity works. I understand very much, as someone who hails from a visually diverse family background, that not all black people in this country's history have stayed black. However, if some white individual actually has no black background at all, there's absolutely no "transracial" process to turn that person into a black person.
Check this out, this is a page from my family reunion program from last year…
How many of my blood relatives here are white people? The answer is none of them.
We're living in modern times, so there's no impetus to hide it. However, if any of them had decided to live lives as "white" people, who's to say otherwise?
What you should know it that some "white" people in this country, especially if they were born in the civil right era and before, had actually had black heritage and were actually considered black under the "One Drop" rule. They hid this fact and went on to live lives as "white" people, this is called "passing." SO to me, the birth certificate is clearly suspect or at lest not sufficiently explained. Dolezal's parents, for the record, are not such people. They claim that they've alway's been white and openly so.
I refuse to accede to the logic and "evidence" of white RWNJs, who all have very little if any understanding of this country's long history of racial politics, especially as it pertains to the south, while they are hell-bent on discrediting an effective activist for black people.
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