The notion of a Rachel Dolezal is too novel for too many black people to stomach. Why would any white person--especially a white woman (gasp)-- want to be black? Can they be? 'Black' and 'White' are made-in-America racial classifications (later borrowed by South Africa Afrikaaners and Nazi Germany and Italy's Fascists). They were economically, politically, and culturally contrived to justify centuries of enslavement, brutalization, miscegenation, discrimination, and oppression. In Africa, there were no blacks just tribes. In Europe, there were no whites just nations. America needed classifications to divide the privileged from the poor; the have's from the have not's; the white indentured servants from the black indentured servants. So voila! Racial categories were created, and inculcated in politics, in business, in science, in culture, in law, in religion, in education, in public accommodations.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/12/rachel-dolezal-delusional-construction-perception-of-race
Friday, June 12, 2015
RACHEL DOLEZAL, BISON SISTER
The notion of a Rachel Dolezal is too novel for too many black people to stomach. Why would any white person--especially a white woman (gasp)-- want to be black? Can they be? 'Black' and 'White' are made-in-America racial classifications (later borrowed by South Africa Afrikaaners and Nazi Germany and Italy's Fascists). They were economically, politically, and culturally contrived to justify centuries of enslavement, brutalization, miscegenation, discrimination, and oppression. In Africa, there were no blacks just tribes. In Europe, there were no whites just nations. America needed classifications to divide the privileged from the poor; the have's from the have not's; the white indentured servants from the black indentured servants. So voila! Racial categories were created, and inculcated in politics, in business, in science, in culture, in law, in religion, in education, in public accommodations.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/12/rachel-dolezal-delusional-construction-perception-of-race