Rachel Dolezal Sued Howard University for Racial Discrimination in 2002

[KamaAina]

Not The Onion!!

http://gawker.com/report-rachel-dolezal-sued-howard-university-for-discr-1711464382

Former Spokane NAACP president Rachel Dolezal sued Howard University in 2002 for allegedly discriminating against her because she’s white, according to court documents obtained by the Smoking Gun. Dolezal, who has claimed to be black for several years, said the school refused to hire her for teaching posts and denied her scholarships because of her race.

Dolezal, who went by Rachel Moore then, reportedly filed the suit against Howard and Professor Alfred Smith, the chairman of the university’s art department, in Washington DC’s Superior Court. From the Smoking Gun:

According to a Court of Appeals opinion, Dolezal’s lawsuit “claimed discrimination based on race, pregnancy, family responsibilities and gender.” She alleged that Smith and other school officials improperly blocked her appointment to a teaching assistant post, rejected her application for a post-graduate instructorship, and denied her scholarship aid while she was a student.

The court opinion also noted that Dolezal claimed that the university’s decision to remove some of her artworks from a February 2001 student exhibition was “motivated by a discriminatory purpose to favor African-American students over” her.

[3catwoman3]

1. Why would a white person expect to receive...

...special consideration at a historically black university?

[malaise]

10. Let me think - two words

white privilege??

[3catwoman3]

17. My apologies if that was a naive question.

I am a melanin deficient Irish-Scottish-English-German human. When I was applying to schools in the late 1960s, it would not have occurred to me that Howard would have wanted me. Are white students encouraged to apply? I checked the demographics on their site, and the percentage of the student body identified as white was 1.4%.

Again, my apologies if these are naive questions, or inappropriate. Or offensive. That is totally not my intention

[freshwest]

19. And/ or the 'reverse racism' card? I'm nauseous now. n/t

[etherealtruth]

2. SMH

I don't know if this woman is crazy, deranged, evil .... a sociopath ....?

[malaise]

11. She has psychological issues

I suspect she felt the parents paid more attention to the adopted black kids - something is seriously wrong with her.

[etherealtruth]

20. Without doubt! n/t

[beam me up scottie]

3. Are you freakin kidding me???

Out of all the seriously fucked up things that she's done this is the absolute WORST.

First a white person of privilege takes up a spot that could have gone to a minority student at an historically black college, and then she sues them because SHE'S a victim of discrimination?

[countryjake]

4. That almost sounds like something a white-power type would do.

I'm seriously beginning to wonder if her whole charade could have intentionally been more malicious from the beginning than we might ever suppose it was.

WTF is right! It doesn't sound like she was a wanna-be back in 2002 when she sued Howard.

[beam me up scottie]

7. I think she actually believes poc get preferential treatment.

I've seen this before- mostly at work, some white folks think that they're victims of reverse racism.

A lot of men also whine about how women get special consideration.

I've actually heard them blather on about how nice it must be to have things handed to you because you're a woman or minority.

[countryjake]

9. Remember back right before the 2004 election, conservatives with agendas

began mobilizing to take over leadership positions in historically progressive organizations? The teabagger and libertarian types surreptitiously deciding that if ya can't lick 'em, join 'em? A grassroots local sort of movement to destroy liberal groups from the inside out. Like trolls.

Hearing about this lawsuit of hers is really making me wonder now.

[beam me up scottie]

12. At first I felt sorry for her.

But after hearing from her siblings and former classmates and now this, I sincerely doubt she suffers from body dysmorphic disorder.

She decided she would be more successful if she was black so she changed her identity.

"Transracial" my ass.

[countryjake]

15. I did too, last Thursday. Changed my mind real quick like...

when I read that same night that after college, she'd moved up to Bonner's Ferry (with her Black hubby) and I thought, what the fuck? You'd need to know some of the dynamics of far Northern Idaho at that time to understand why that info made me go...hmmm.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6831585

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6837066

[beam me up scottie]

16. Yep, you had her pegged alright.

I can't believe people are still defending her behaviour.

This is exactly the kind of stunt racists love to use to their advantage.

[JI7]

5. knew this bizarre shit had nothing to do with love of black culture

[NewSystemNeeded]

6. It's always a bad idea to rush to someone's defense before the whole story comes out.

Yowza.

[suffragette]

8. Oh, geez! And if I'm reading correctly, the lawsuit says she was still PAID stipend and scholarship,

the stipend for 4 semesters, though she only worked for three and the scholarship renewed, even though she didn't follow reapplication process.

[Veldrick]

13. Did she win or lose the lawsuit?

?

[Veldrick]

14. Nevermind. I just saw in the article that she lost and had to pay court fees nt

[Jesus Malverde]

18. bump...nt

[Takket]

21. seems to me she pretended to be black out of her anger over this case being tossed out

So can we officially bury the "transracial" argument now?