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Related: About this forumThe Infallibility of Miss Ann (or the last Rachael Dolezal thinkpiece ever)
By JAMILAH LEMIEUX Senior Editor
June 15,2015
If you were asked to close your eyes and think of racist violence against Black folksWhite on Black crime, if you willId wager that youd summon the image of a White man/White men brutalizing someone. The LAPD officers who beat Rodney King. Daniel Pantelleo taking Eric Garners air. Darren Wilsons expressionless mug posing to reveal the injuries he sustained while gunning down Mike Brown. And, of course the latest member of the all-too-easy to join club of infamously violent cops, former (and likely, future, if history has taught us anything) police officer Eric Casebolt who brutalized a 14-year-old girl on that now-viral video shot in the ruins of a McKinney, Texas pool party.
But what set things off in the first place? Allegedly, the incident began when a White woman made racist comments about attendees of the party and then slapped the 19-year-old host when she defended her friends. This entire fiasco was (allegedly) set into motion due to the racist violence of a White womanand a group of Black teens were violated and likely traumatized as a result. Yet, she's been largely absent from the conversation about that infamous day.
We dont say enough about how the racism of White womenwho often escape scrutiny because the public face of racism is The White Manharms people of color. We forget how the aggression of police when encountering Black bodies is often tied to the idea that these people present a danger to the fragility of White womanhood and how the word of a White woman will nearly almost always be believed over that of a Black man or Black woman (or a Black child, which is frightening, considering how many White women are teaching Black kids that they dont necessarily value or believe in.)
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Butterbean
(1,014 posts)Lord, thank you, this NEEDED to be said.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Glad I posted this.
Butterbean
(1,014 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Wow, that's a very interesting article.
It's funny, a lot of people are saying they're bored or sick of this story. I can understand that. But for me it leads to a lot of great articles like this one.
I'm tired of reading about hillary stinks, bernie can't get elected, who would you vote for in a year, the tpp, fast track, everything sucks. A lot of that stuff bores me to tears.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)It just keeps going and going.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)I've been gone most of the day.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Sister Esther. The parents think Esther is mentally ill. Rachel supports Esther.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)This is too much. If he did it I hope he is punished.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)I swear we need a separate google feed just to keep up with all the crazy developments in this whacko story of the woman. I'm also noting how many people are bending over backwards to try and explain away her behavior. It's almost like a study in how much atrocious behavior they will try and explain away.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I keep thinking that it's finally over, but then something else starts up.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)I go away for a few hours and there's like five more crazy ass things that are revealed, rofl.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)ethics rules.
http://news.yahoo.com/former-naacp-leader-dolezal-found-violated-ethics-rules-181815292.html
Man, this story just gets crazier & crazier.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)with part of the family in denial about their active role in them.
Rachel is a product of her family system.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)precise and true, as always. I fell into the cultural trap described in the article, but not for long. The Ebony article put everything concerning this story into historical perspective. Needed as a reminder.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)At first I was feeling very empathetic towards this lady, but I felt like I needed to explore my feelings about it a bit more. After I did I was mad.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)And still - it wasn't enough. I know a man still in a blind rage over that . . .
When Black men are violated or insulted, the Black communitys response is typically pretty clear: this is wrong, this should not have happened, our men deserve better. When Black women are under the gun that is not the case. Prior to the McKinney incident, I cant recall an instance in which there was so much collective outrage at the mistreatment of a Black female and we had to literally see a teen girl in a bikini getting tossed around by a White police officer to summon it. It seems that regardless of her intentions, Dolezals crime against Black womanhood is pretty clear and that all of us should be offended that it happened. Alas, thats not the case.
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1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)and glad you posted it here ... so we do not have to suffer another verse of "NotAllWhiteWomen!!!"
bravenak
(34,648 posts)that woman as one of us. Some of them act like she is similar to light skinned black folks, and my husband takes offense to that. It's hard enough for my husband to be considered 'black enough', this woman is going to have folks checking black cards to negro events from now on. Somebody compared her to Ben Jealous. Like it's the same damn thing.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Yep ... and it has to be an actual "I Be Black" card, counter-signed by both parents and the attending mid-wife, with a bar code that traces lineage back 17 generations ... and verified by Joe Random White Guy (whose opinion, we all know, is all that really counts),
bravenak
(34,648 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)It's Miss Anne's turn?
Warpy
(111,270 posts)that the only one the police should have arrested is the racist COW who started the whole thing by assaulting a teenager.
She's been suspended from her job, one hopes permanently, but she really belongs in jail--for assault, for inciting a riot, for wasting the time of the PD, take your pick. A night in a cell would likely do her a world of good.
Until the BIGOTS who usually start the whole thing off by making hyped up phone calls (see: a black man carrying an air rifle he was going to buy through WalMart) or by starting altercations with their big mouths pay the consequences, the above article will be sadly valid.
I'm not sure I could remain peaceful were it all happening to me and mine, but I did get the Irish temper along with the fish belly white skin. I am constantly amazed by the exemplary behavior of POC when confronted by bigots and bullies on a daily basis. And yes, as many of them are white women as are white men.
Lilith Rising
(184 posts)I too noticed immediately how for the first time in my living memory (white) people were 'outraged' at the treatment of black girls. Where's the outrage when black women and girls are routinely, disproportionately targeted for all kinds of violence?
And as far as Dolezal goes, appropriation sucks. Period.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I noticed that too. People were more defensive about her than the 12 years old girl who got her jaw broken by police.