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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRachel Dolezal memoir to explore 'discrimination while living as black'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/31/rachel-dolezal-memoir-in-full-color-race-black-white?CMP=edit_2221"Dolezal announced details of the book on her Instagram account on Monday, saying it will be titled In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World.
An Amazon description description of the book says it will explain the path that led her from being a child of white evangelical parents to an NAACP chapter president and respected educator and activist who identified as black."
Jason1961
(413 posts)She's a punchline
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)linuxman
(2,337 posts)nolabear
(41,999 posts)'The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered'
The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am pleased.
In vast quantities it has been remaindered
Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been seized
And sits in piles in a police warehouse,
My enemy's much-prized effort sits in piles
In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs.
Great, square stacks of rejected books and, between them, aisles
One passes down reflecting on life's vanities,
Pausing to remember all those thoughtful reviews
Lavished to no avail upon one's enemy's book --
For behold, here is that book
Among these ranks and banks of duds,
These ponderous and seemingly irreducible cairns
Of complete stiffs.
The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I rejoice.
It has gone with bowed head like a defeated legion
Beneath the yoke.
What avail him now his awards and prizes,
The praise expended upon his meticulous technique,
His individual new voice?
Knocked into the middle of next week
His brainchild now consorts with the bad buys
The sinker, clinkers, dogs and dregs,
The Edsels of the world of moveable type,
The bummers that no amount of hype could shift,
The unbudgeable turkeys.
Yea, his slim volume with its understated wrapper
Bathes in the blare of the brightly jacketed Hitler's War Machine,
His unmistakably individual new voice
Shares the same scrapyart with a forlorn skyscraper
Of The Kung-Fu Cookbook,
His honesty, proclaimed by himself and believed by others,
His renowned abhorrence of all posturing and pretense,
Is there with Pertwee's Promenades and Pierrots--
One Hundred Years of Seaside Entertainment,
And (oh, this above all) his sensibility,
His sensibility and its hair-like filaments,
His delicate, quivering sensibility is now as one
With Barbara Windsor's Book of Boobs,
A volume graced by the descriptive rubric
"My boobs will give everyone hours of fun".
Soon now a book of mine could be remaindered also,
Though not to the monumental extent
In which the chastisement of remaindering has been meted out
To the book of my enemy,
Since in the case of my own book it will be due
To a miscalculated print run, a marketing error--
Nothing to do with merit.
But just supposing that such an event should hold
Some slight element of sadness, it will be offset
By the memory of this sweet moment.
Chill the champagne and polish the crystal goblets!
The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am glad.
Clive James
muriel_volestrangler
(101,390 posts)His latest "Reports of my death" column (named because when it became know how ill he is, everyone started up with the eulogies, but he's hanging on):
If Trump loses, we will still not be free of his extravagantly coiffed shadow, because the analysis will begin as to why he lost. Nobody sane will ascribe Hillarys victory to her own command of language. If either of them commands the language, Trump does, by sticking a short finger in its ribs and walking forwards until it walks backwards.
Subjected to such treatment, Hillary was rightly praised for her poise, but she should have told him at least once to go screw himself. As things turned out, the figure who really had Trumps number was Alec Baldwin on Saturday Night Live. Baldwin has the wrong mouth to be Trump Baldwins mouth looks like a mouth but in all other respects, he was a terrifying simulacrum of the terrifying reality, in which, no matter how much ordnance Hillary hit him with, Trump kept on walking forwards, like the robot Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still.
In pursuit of his aching pout, Baldwin kept on dialling up the inexorability, thereby tapping into any sane persons deepest fear about the Donald: that he was built in a fully automated factory whose android engineers had studied no human being except a bilious infant in a cot. Those of us who used to be children ourselves can often only fleetingly remember that I want was once not just an imperative, it was an explanation. The world was something that might withhold the breast from us, unless we could threaten it with nuclear war.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/29/clive-james-us-election-hillary-clinton-should-have-told-trump
nolabear
(41,999 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Bookmarking.
maxsolomon
(33,432 posts)Dolezal is delusional, but she's not a mean person. She comes from a seriously fucked-up evangelical family, and basically rescued her black adopted brother from her parents.
I have no clue what she's been doing to make ends meet in Spokane, and she has kids to feed. I have no ill will towards her.
SouthernProgressive
(1,810 posts)romanic
(2,841 posts)But I can't help but be intrigued by WHY she portrayed herself as being black.
maxsolomon
(33,432 posts)I have no idea if she can look at her choices honestly, but there's been a lot of illuminating reporting on her past.