The Great Pundit takes on Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who pretended to be black, who headed up the Spokane chapter of the NAACP. Let’s see how far we can wade in before we get tangled and swallowed:
Ok, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t laugh… this hard. I know this isn’t a victimless crime, what this white chick perpetrated. But it’s a most crystal clear picture of so many screwed up things we’ve let society adopt as the norm.
Well, if it was the “norm”, it probably wouldn’t be “news”. And it clearly is “news”.
Namely, the practice nowadays of judging someone not based on character, but on skin color. Our original civil rights freedom fighters are rolling in their graves over the backward steps we’ve taken lately.
I’m not sure who is judging Rachel Dolezal. I’ve written about the story, but I can only speculate as to her character. In any event, when it comes to what the civil rights “freedom fighters”, many of whom are still alive today, I don’t think we need Sarah to speak on their behalf.
There certainly is something to be said about challenging the construct of race (which is separate from “skin color”, although that distinction would be lost on someone like Palin). The Dolezal story certainly raises that issue, but it is tainted by the apparent fact that she apparently lied.
It’s politically incorrect to call out Elizabeth Warren for falsely claiming she’s American Indian, or dinging Obama for just making up his former multi-ethnic girlfriend, and I guarantee I’ll be branded a racist for laughing at this Rachel Dolezal story. Whatever.
I tried to give Mrs. Heartbeat-Away-From-The-Presidency all the benefit of the doubt here, with the reference to Obama’s former multi-ethnic girlfriend. But I simply could not find what she is talking about. Yes, there was a ginned-up fake controversy a couple years ago involving Obama’s book “Dreams Of My Father”, in which he admitted to using composite characters, including old girlfriends. Using composite characters is a common literary device. But even then, how does multi-ethnicity get in there? Does Sarah thing that is what “composite” means in this context?
Oh, well. Let’s continue.
Dolezal is an unsatisfied lily white leftist who believes the only thing less politically correct than being a white girl is to be a white guy today.
Query how Palin knows that is Dolezal’s head.
Can’t help but be preemptively amused as I post this and invite Dolzel’s defenders wrath to aim and miss at we who won’t put up with political correctness destroying truth in America.
Translation: Look at me! I’m a troll!
Oh, and on a personal note, I can finally look forward to the Left’s positive comments about a scholar’s association with college in Idaho! After all that high-falutin’ criticism for choosing a good school that I could afford to attend while working my way through, graduating college debt-free, I can’t wait to hear the former mockers of Idaho now defend the integrity of that great state’s academia! Go Vandals!
What that fuck? I was so close to the end, and then the vines of the word salad wrapped around my limbs and I got pulled under. I have no idea what she is saying here. I guess Rachel went to the same college (or teaches at the same college?) that Sarah went to. Which is apropos of nothing and relevant to nothing.