Somehow, this story reminds me of my old satire about Trent Lott:
In a prelude to his upcoming appearance on BET, he appeared at a sparsely-attended press conference outside his local office, resplendent in a colorful daishiki, with his formerly shellacked hair frizzing freely in a three-foot diameter “afro-style” hairdo.
“As you all know, Bill Clinton was the first black president. Well, I’m the first black Senate Majority Leader. It’s truly a proud day for the Republican Party and the African-American community.”
“I know that many of you will be surprised to learn that I was ‘passing’ all of these years. It was a deep, dark family secret.”
“My great-great grandmother was a house nigra on a plantation outside of Biloxi. My great-grandfather was a mullatto, my grandmother was a quadroon, and my mother was an octaroon, which makes me a hexidecaroon. As all of you from hereabouts know, just a touch of one hair of the tarbrush means that I can never be truly white.”
I guess life imitates art, or something.
[Update a while later]
A lot more links: “She’s trans-black. Don’t shame her.”
Sad story really. There are definitely signs of mental illness here. She’s the one who found numerous items of hate mail in their post box – which were not postmarked …
This really pisses me off. This lady came to town and started running down our city as being racist. She tarnished our reputation in the state and the country. We already face racist stereotyping from our friends in Seattle and the surrounding mini-Seattles and this lady set us back decades in combating those stereotypes.
Her faked hate crime was widely covered locally. It was a big story that has been continuously covered until today. There were protests in town and since she took over, the community has been constantly berated for being racist.
She needs to be removed from the police oversight committee and Eastern Washington University should fire her as her classroom will be a hostile environment to all students, not just the white ones.
Turns out Spokane isn’t a racist town as we were framed to be. But the state does have its history of racism, just like everywhere else. In the late 1800’s Democrats were burning down Republican houses because they had native wives and they generally just didn’t like Republicans after the Civil War. But just like everywhere else, Democrats have been trying to scapegoat Republicans in Washington as being the racist ones historically and in the present.
That someone could do this and get a pass from the people who claim to be for racial harmony and equality is sickening.
You may not want racism, but racism wants you.
I think her case highlights the fact that Bruce Jenner is probably trans-racial instead of transgendered. The odds of a white woman winning the Olympic men’s decathlon are nil, but a black man could easily do it.
I’ve seen the term “Wrongskin” passed around in jest, but SDB really nailed it–the correct term should be “Other(s)kin”.
After all, what’s the difference between someone with low-melanin DNA who thinks they’re “really” black, someone with a y-chromosome who thinks they’re “really” a woman, and someone with human DNA who thinks that they’re “really” a werewolf, vampire, or even a dragon(!) with the unfortunate luck of being born into a sadly-mundane human body?
All explained in Jupiter Ascending, the first movie made for Otherkin. I think it is going to spawn a scientology like religion of body modification.