In the Spirit of Hair,
Rachel Dolezal's #naturalhair politics
By Clarence PageContact Reporter
In this summer of raw identity politics, it is ironically appropriate that everyone's favorite fake black woman, Rachel Dolezal, is back in the news.
Dolezal, you surely recall, was the local NAACP president in Spokane, Wash., who was exposed last year by a local television station and by her estranged parents as a white woman who was only passing for black.
Or as she might put it, she has been identifying as black since around 2006 in much the same way that Caitlyn Jenner identifies as a woman, despite having the same male body that she had when she was Olympic medalist Bruce Jenner.
Dolezal was back in the news with the announcement that she would be headlining a Labor Day weekend rally in Dallas called the Naturally Isis Braid-On, Economic Liberty March and Rally ...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...race-page-perspec-0904-jm-20160902-story.html
Rachel Dolezal, shown in 2015, will headline an event in Dallas that celebrates African-American hair activism and braiding.
(Colin Mulvany, AP)
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Rachel Dolezal's #naturalhair politics
In this summer of raw identity politics, it is ironically appropriate that everyone's favorite fake black woman, Rachel Dolezal, is back in the news.
Dolezal, you surely recall, was the local NAACP president in Spokane, Wash., who was exposed last year by a local television station and by her estranged parents as a white woman who was only passing for black.
Or as she might put it, she has been identifying as black since around 2006 in much the same way that Caitlyn Jenner identifies as a woman, despite having the same male body that she had when she was Olympic medalist Bruce Jenner.
Dolezal was back in the news with the announcement that she would be headlining a Labor Day weekend rally in Dallas called the Naturally Isis Braid-On, Economic Liberty March and Rally ...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...race-page-perspec-0904-jm-20160902-story.html
Rachel Dolezal, shown in 2015, will headline an event in Dallas that celebrates African-American hair activism and braiding.
(Colin Mulvany, AP)
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