newwavefeminism:ctron164:You know what really pisses me off about this whole thing is in the end Rac
newwavefeminism:ctron164:You know what really pisses me off about this whole thing is in the end Rachel’s racial fetish is being rewarded. Her actions has given licence to ignorant, morbidly curious, bored complacent white people to play dress with peoples’ struggles. She’s also undermined black women’s, transpeople, and even the mentally ill’s trials and tribulations. She may have pretended to be black for 8 years, but Rachel will never know how it feels to be told she is inferior and inherently bad for being black.That she should be grateful anyone grants her humanity. She’ll never have to defend her given name and be nicknamed so white people don’t have to bother learning her name, she’ll never know what is to be told she’s not black enough, or she’s pretty for a black girl or be hypersexualized like many of us have been since before hitting puberty. Now more than ever she isn’t going to be accused of being “angry”, “rachet”, “ghetto” and all of the ugly labels actual black women have to side step everyday. I think she should pay restitution for defrauding the NAACP, her kids should be taken away, how many black women have been stepped on in Spokane’s civil rights community to elevate this pathological liar !? And going by her answers given in her limited appearances, for those of you self loathing enough to defend her please tell the rest of us where in what she has said is she doing more for the black community than black people have ?All of her answers are self absorbed and she seems relieved as fuck that people are giving her their undivided attention. Than she can finally enjoy her braided wig and weaves in peace now that the world knows.I really wanted to highlight this comment on the thread. Especially the bolded. -- source link