Race is not the same as gender!!!! This entire thing is a smoskescreen for people to air out their true feelings about gender identity (and, to a lesser extent, sexual identity imo). People are coming at this from a fundamentally WRONG place: 'If a person can choose their sexuality or gender, why can't they choose their race?' 1. Race and gender (and sexuality) are not the same thing AT ALL. The fact that you are trying to act like gender identity politics are the same as racial identity politics is sickening, especially from WOC who should UNDERSTAND the unique ways that race and gender intersect. They are not fucking interchangeable. 2. NO ONE CHOOSES THEIR RACE, SEXUALITY, OR GENDER. Trans people are born the way they are... just like gay/bi/etc people are born the way they are... just like Black/white people are born the way they are! Race might be a social construct (which doesn't make it any less real), but SKIN color is hereditary, and the oppressive systems of privilege revolve around skin color. Gender and sexuality are NOT hereditary so of course there is also more fluidity in those concepts. Like... it's not even hard to understand. People CLEARLY just don't see gender identity and sexual identity/fluidity as real concepts so they are making these false comparisons and its so DISGUSTING. This entire thing was the ULTIMATE exercise in white privilege... white people can do WHATEVER they ant in this country, even manipulate the concepts of race for their own pleasure, to suit them as they see fit. As a Black woman, I have no choice in my Blackness or my oppression. I can't go home and wash it off; there is no escape hatch. Rachel Dolezal's entire 'Black experience' has been rooted in the fact that she can take it off whenever she wants; that is a privilege of power and control that Black people DO NOT HAVE. We cannot manipulate race or racial constructs for our own pleasure, nor can we opt out of the HEREDITARY skin color system of privilege in this country. Race might be a social construct, but there is nothing adjustable about skin color privilege. Anyone saying otherwise is COMPLETELY ignoring the fact that the way you all WANT race to function is not ACTUALLY the way that race functions the real world. Anything she has done for the Black community was done to boost her ego and to assuage her white guilt; it was borne out of deception and there is nothing genuine about it. When you do philanthropic work for your own pride, you are removing anything good about it. Anyone asking you to be grateful for what this white woman did WHILE IN BLACKFACE is asking you to bow down in the face of white supremacy; they are asking you to accept that white people, and this white woman in particular, and inherently superior to you so their 'work' automatically means more. Anyone asking you to be grateful they 'want to be you' is asking you to bow down in the face of white supremacy; they are inherently superior so you, a Black cockroach, should be FLATTERED these white gods are interested in your little, primitive culture. Let the white god tell you how to behave; let her dictate your black ness to you because she is inherently worth more than yours. This is honestly so disgusting on so many levels. I'm done. Links: 'Transracial Lives Matter: Rachel Dolezal and the Privilege of Racial Manipulation:' http://www.thelostdaughters.com/2015/06/transracial-lives-matter-rachel-dolezal.html 'Rachel Dolezal's appearance is 'blackface,' brother says:' http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/13/us/washington-rachel-dolezal-adopted-brother/ 'There is no comparison between transgender people and Rachel Dolezal:' http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/12/comparison-transgender-people-rachel-dolezal 'Stop making excuses for Rachel Dolezal: The Spokane NAACP official’s fraud is unforgivable:' http://www.salon.com/2015/06/12/stop_making_excuses_for_rachel_dolezal_the_spokane_naacp_officials_fraud_is_unforgivable/ 'Rachel Dolezal Is Nothing Like Caitlyn Jenner — And Here's Why:' http://mic.com/articles/120604/why-rachel-dolezal-is-not-caitlyn-jenner?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm;_medium=main&utm;_campaign=social 'Why Comparing Rachel Dolezal To Caitlyn Jenner Is Detrimental To Both Trans And Racial Progress:' http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/12/rachel-dolezal-caitlyn-jenner_n_7569160.html '14 Tweets About Rachel Dolezal That Reveal the Uncomfortable Truth About Race in America:' http://mic.com/articles/120573/twitter-reacts-to-naacp-s-rachel-dolezal-scandal YouTube videos: 'WHY RACHEL DOLEZAL ISN'T CAITLYN JENNER:' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZEsCWWskbY 'Transgender v.s. "Transracial.":' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6fWVUNi_Tk 'NO RACHEL DOLEZAL, YOU'RE NOT BLACK!:' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZtk-3nrR_I 'My Opinion On #RachelDolezal:' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agl2hzpwkLE

• published: 15 Jun 2015
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