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White woman identifying as a black woman

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Aeroflotgirl · 04/02/2019 18:20

I have just come across this, I am speech less. She wants to move to Africa to be 'with her people'. Oh god how insulting and offensive.

www.eightieskids.com/this-white-woman-who-identifies-as-black-is-now-moving-to-africa-to-be-with-her-people/

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LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 04/02/2019 19:07

Appreciate all you like - you can’t pretend that you are though.

Firestars · 04/02/2019 19:13

She's German isn't she?

MrsTommyBanks · 04/02/2019 19:18

I appreciate black culture. My DMs best friend when I was growing up was African.I spent more time in her house than mine. She was a massive influence on me.
I'm still white.

MrsTommyBanks · 04/02/2019 19:20

Better than a black person pretending to be white

How do you mean? Not being today, I don't understand what you mean. Or how it's different?

ColdPasta · 04/02/2019 19:25

Souls jump around body to body, it seems from man to woman, white person to black person, person to animal, the age can be wrong, the ability can be wrong, heterosexual people are homosexuals. I have lost count.

If you don't believe the above new religion YOU are the problem and will have Yorkshire, Humberside, Greater Manchester, Norfolk and Sufolk police visiting you for 'thought crimes'. It's apparently not a mental illness no sirie!

TheNavigator · 04/02/2019 19:35

In fairness to Rachel Dolezal I think she grew up with black brothers and sisters and genuinely identified with them as her family. Actually changing race is far less ludicrous than thinking you can change sex. Race really is just a social construct and we all came out of Africa if you go back far enough.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 04/02/2019 19:37

I believe she had a white family who adopted/fostered a couple of black boys. Shit, my DB must identify as a woman as he was the only boy in a family of all girls.

shadypines · 04/02/2019 19:38

Give me a break, people will be identifying as unicorns next.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 04/02/2019 19:43

She isnt just saying ‘oh I love Kenya - the people the food the lifestyle - I want to live there like a local’ she is saying ‘I’m black and my baby will be black’ (because she is taking drugs to darken her skin). Bonkers.

reallyanotherone · 04/02/2019 19:44

That sounds like bollocks. Who exactly has done this?

Have you been under a rock the last few years?

If you “feel” like a woman, you are a woman, and it’s literal violence for someone to say you aren’t.

I don’t think it’s a stretch at all that if someone “feels” black then they are black.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 04/02/2019 19:45

I remember when the whole Rachel thing blew up. I had a photo of her on my screen and a black colleague wandered by, took a look and said ‘who’s the white woman?’. I said ‘oh she’s black, so she says’. Colleague 🙄 ‘nah she’s white. Not even mixed race’.

And this was a photo that Rachel was using herself.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 04/02/2019 19:46

Actually I feel like a pig because I just ate a whole family pack of fruit pastels. Actually I am a pig because I ate a whole pack...

🐷 🤢

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 04/02/2019 19:50

Flat-earthers are gonna have to up their game.

NothingOnTellyAgain · 04/02/2019 19:54

there's that guy who got a job for black men in acting reventyl as well

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 04/02/2019 19:57

I worked with someone who went for a scholarship in the states for ‘African students’. She was white African but was told she couldn’t be African because the was white.

TheNavigator · 04/02/2019 20:00

There's a lot of it about Obviously less outrage because its a bloke & its more fun to get angry at women.

BlancheM · 04/02/2019 20:11

I caught her on this morning with her partner. The things they were saying! 😲 they had to be cut short because the partner started wittering about black Americans not understanding their own African culture like they do, carrying water ect ect

CatsPawsAndWhiskers · 04/02/2019 20:20

colleague wandered by, took a look and said ‘who’s the white woman?’

Why would a colleague say 'white woman' and not just 'woman'. Strange. Confused

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 04/02/2019 20:28

It was because had darkened skin and Afro hair - but was obviously white.

Heratnumber7 · 04/02/2019 20:32

No different from men claiming to be women. Not that that's right either

TheNavigator · 04/02/2019 20:37

It was because had darkened skin and Afro hair - but was obviously white

Well, she fooled a lot of black organisations - if only they'd had someone as observant as your friend working for them...

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 04/02/2019 20:39

People didn’t question her - I wouldn’t if she presented herself as a black woman.

Binglebong · 04/02/2019 20:41

Give me a break, people will be identifying as unicorns next.

Just for you....

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CatsPawsAndWhiskers · 04/02/2019 20:42

It was because had darkened skin and Afro hair - but was obviously white.

Confused still seems an odd thing to say, rather than just 'who's that woman?' If she didn't know who it was. My friend is white, ginger hair, her husband is black. One of their daughters has Afro hair, slightly ginger and quite pale skin. She's a real beauty. Would your colleague say 'who's the white kid?' Because she's 'obviously white.' She's definitely mixed race. Unless your colleague knew the 'Rachel' story and was making her point of course, if she applied this to my friends daughter, she'd be very wrong.

chillpizza · 04/02/2019 20:46

Well why the hell not. People identify as the other sex, people identify as animals, hell some people identify as chairs! Why is trans race bad out of everything.

I wish to self identify as a OAP and collect state pension Grin