So many of my notifications on all forms of social media this morning are talking about this woman:
Rachel Dolezal, head of an NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington, has been posing as a Black woman for years and her whitewhitewhite parents put her on Front Street yesterday.
The first thing I did when I saw the notifications was open up some links to read about what happened and on every single article, this showed up:
Over and over and over again
Those comments are from Buzzfeed, but they’re everywhere, and largely being made by cisgender white people. The opinion I really want is from a Black trans person, not Becky from North Platte, Nebraska who has no frame of reference for either of those groups.
Until Janet Mock or Laverne Cox gives me something to work with, I want to attempt to explain that while race and gender are both social constructs, they don’t occupy the same space with regard to perception or flexibility.
“What you define as “evil” and what you define as “you” are not really two different things.This is not easy. You can consider this as an idea, or you can
even decide to believe it because maybe you like it as a notion. But
that’s not at all the same as doing the work necessary to fully and
completely embrace it.“
Years
of research have given plausibility to the claim that there is a
technology of systematic, rapid and radical
attitude/behavior/personality change and control ( mind control ); these
thought reform techniques seem to work best when the subject are either
motivated to cooperate or manipulated into believing they have some
degree of free choice.
The nature of the Real (al Haqq) is ultimately compassionate, nurturing, infinitely intelligent, generous, and beautiful. The human
self is transformed through its relationship with Divine Being, which,
of course, can only happen through our being awake and in harmony with
the Divine.. Read More…
