America Not Ready For "Transracialism"

by JASmius



Or so I conclude from the fact that Rachel Dolezal has quit the NAACP, evidently because she had mistaken it for the NAAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Artificially Colored People):

The head of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP has resigned after it was discovered that she lied about her race for years, including changing her appearance to appear more Negro.

Dolezal's estranged parents came forward saying she has routinely identified herself as a black woman, when she is biologically white.

Suggesting that maybe she, ironically, suffers from a really weird form of bi-chromatic colorblindness.  Maybe she can leave her body to the NAACP pathology museum for forensic ethno-opthamologic study.

My question is are her parents estranged from her or is she estranged from them?  I'm guessing the latter, in which case, what are we to call that?  White self-loathing?  Inwardly-directed racism?

The incident has sparked a national controversy over race and ethnicity and self-identity.

Dolezal used the chapter's Facebook page to resign her post.

She quit because if she hadn't, the Spokane NAACP chapter rank and file would have lynched her.

Oh, sure, they claimed, as did Kitara Johnson, that their beef with Dolezal was about "integrity, not race," but I think we all know the real reason is because the white woman was symbolically polluting the African race with her honkiness, mocking everything they, in their minds, stand for - namely, black supremacism.  Which gets back to Miss Delezal's white self-loathing.  Heck, even her black adoptive brother called it "blackface", even as he was trying to defend her.

It's almost the mirror opposite of how Michael Jackson spent the last half of his life trying to turn himself white, other than that the public seems to think that was awesome.  Which is funny, because I wouldn't think that black Americans would have approved of one of their pop culture icons "defecting" to the "enemy".  Or maybe they were relieved to let the man with Boy Scout blowup dolls embarrass another ethnic demographic for a change.

As you can probably tell, I'm still having a bit of difficulty getting my mind around this whole "transracialism" business.  We've established that it is scientifically and genetically impossible to turn a white person black or a black person brown or a brown person yellow or a yellow person red or a red person white, etc.  There are, of course, "mixed race" human beings (which isn't always a good thing....



....but usually is), in which, if you buy the myth that ethnic culture is genetic as well, I could see where there would be this kind of self-identity confusion.

But ethnic culture is not genetic.  And there's no necessary reason for each ethnicity to have its own, inviolable, segregated culture.  But if Rachel Dolezal liked African culture, nobody could or would have stopped her from immersing herself in it (other than racist blacks who didn't want crackers floating around in their racial soup).  That didn't require her to lose her identity to the point where she convinced herself she was "transracial," or at the very least saw some professional and financial scores to be made by posing as a black woman.  The latter of which, come to think of it, did require such a minstrel masquerade.  At least until it got exposed, like egg white unfrying itself.

Oh, hell, I'm just mixing myself up again.

The bottom line is, and no matter how cliched it may sound, there really is - scientifically and genetically - only one race: the human race.  Otherwise "interracial" marriages couldn't produce offspring....



....Security!!!

It's only in a hopelessly hyper-racialized culture that a convoluted kerfuffle like this one could even occur to anyone, much less so many as to create yet another "national controversy".  So it comes as no surprise that the lunatics at MSNBC are snarfing down this "transracialism" nonsense like transfatless Lays potato chips:

While not wanting to make the transgender comparison, [Melissa] Harris-Perry questioned whether one can be “cisblack and transblack,” and whether there’s a way to describe “the achievement of blackness despite one’s parentage.”

Alyson Hobbs, who literally wrote the book on “racial passing,” said there’s “certainly a chance that [Miss Dolezal] identifies as a black woman and there could be authenticity to that.”

Or we're all human beings and ethnic divisions are irrelevant and Rachel Dolezel is equal parts psychologically bleeped up and con artist and you're all stark-raving mad.

Exit question #1: Does the above quote mean that MHP is crazier than she is racist?

Exit question #2: If Miss Dolezal died her 'fro red, would she not look like Mrs. Sideshow Bob?



Exit question #3: Does Miss Dolezal claim Rochester as her great uncle?