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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Let Rachel Dolezal Be as Black as She Wants to Be
TIME ^ | 06/16/2015 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Posted on 06/16/2015 10:13:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

I sympathize with the dilemma of Rachel Dolezal, the head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP whose parents maintain that she is not any part black, as she has claimed (#whiteisthenewblack). See, I too have been living a lie. For the past 50 years I’ve been keeping up this public charade, pretending to be something I’m not. Finally, in the wake of so many recent personal revelations by prominent people, I’ve decided to come out with the truth.

I am not tall (#shortstuff).

Although I’ve been claiming to be 7’2” for many decades, the truth is that I’m 5’8”. And that’s when I first get out of bed in the morning. Just goes to show, you tell a lie often enough and people believe you. I expect there will be some who will demand I give back the championship rings and titles that I accumulated during my college and professional basketball career because I was only able to win them by convincing other players that they had no chance against my superior height. How could these achievements have any lasting meaning if I’m not really as tall as Wikipedia says I am?

The evidence against Dolezal does seem pretty damning. Her birth parents have decided to express their parental love by outing her in response to a legal dispute they have with her (#returnworld’sbestparentstrophy). They offered photos of a farm-fresh Rachel looking like she just stepped out of the General Store in Mayberry and a white-on-white birth certificate. Some siblings have also attested that she’s not black, though she was raised alongside four adopted black children. Dolezal herself has just stepped aside from her position at the NAACP.

Despite all this, you can’t deny that Dolezal has proven herself a fierce and unrelenting champion for African-Americans politically and culturally.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackkk; kareemabduljabbar; naacp; race; racheldolezal; spokane
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1 posted on 06/16/2015 10:13:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Is she black enough for affirmative action?


2 posted on 06/16/2015 10:16:02 AM PDT by cripplecreek (You vote for your TPP supporter and I'll vote for mine.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hey Lew , better read Dolezal v Howard University.


3 posted on 06/16/2015 10:16:06 AM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: SeekAndFind

He once tried to pass himself off as an airliner co-pilot.


4 posted on 06/16/2015 10:16:32 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: SeekAndFind

No respect for truth out there I guess.


5 posted on 06/16/2015 10:16:39 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: SeekAndFind
So, Kareem jokes about being tall.
Fan: What's the weather like up there?
Kareem, after spitting on him: It's raining.

6 posted on 06/16/2015 10:17:58 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: SeekAndFind

So if you fight for something it’s okay to lie to get the end results.

Kareem sounds so muslim and communist here. Lying for the cause. Lying for the struggle. Lying if it furthers islam and allah.


7 posted on 06/16/2015 10:19:17 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Vince Ferrer
He once tried to pass himself off as an airliner co-pilot.

8 posted on 06/16/2015 10:19:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I identify as an Eskimo which makes me a transkimo.


9 posted on 06/16/2015 10:21:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lets all be black, then we can get rid of a whole lot of government welfare programs.


10 posted on 06/16/2015 10:22:58 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If she was a republican or in ANY WAY connected to conservative ideas, they would be calling for her to be jailed on fraud charges.


11 posted on 06/16/2015 10:23:06 AM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz - to defeat HilLIARy/Warren)
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To: SeekAndFind

I used to like Oreo’s, then I was call a racist.

Now I am going to have to give up Orange Crush?


12 posted on 06/16/2015 10:23:17 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote
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To: SeekAndFind

13 posted on 06/16/2015 10:23:33 AM PDT by South40 (Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
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To: SeekAndFind

the left sees everything through race-colored glasses.

the right doesn’t.

so the schadenfreude in cases like this goes through the roof for me when i see a lefty get caught in their own web of lies and deceits about race.

of course, she’ll survive this. the MSM doesn’t actually ever ruin the lives of lefties... they just make them uncomfortable until some new story arises to replace this one.

she should count her lucky stars that she’s not a Christian baker. then her life would have been ruined for sure!


14 posted on 06/16/2015 10:24:00 AM PDT by TangibleDisgust (The Parmesan doesn't go like that.)
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To: cripplecreek

She doesn’t need to be black enough for affirmative action. She’s female enough.


15 posted on 06/16/2015 10:24:04 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: SeekAndFind
Anyone who listens to the Isaac Hayes song, “Shaft,” wants to be black

Not if you listen to "Freddie's Dead," though.

16 posted on 06/16/2015 10:27:16 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Mr. K
If she was a republican or in ANY WAY connected to conservative ideas, they would be calling for her to be jailed on fraud charges.

So far Jeb Bush remains out of jail.

17 posted on 06/16/2015 10:27:40 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: SeekAndFind

I identify as young, handsome, and sexy. Pay no attention to my wife’s silly opinion.


18 posted on 06/16/2015 10:28:37 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: Daveinyork

Sorry, affirmative action doesn’t apply to women, just to NAMs.


19 posted on 06/16/2015 10:28:41 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: DungeonMaster

Lets all be black, then we can get rid of a whole lot of government welfare programs

Rather brilliant idea! Fight the Regressives with their own cockamamie bullshite.


20 posted on 06/16/2015 10:29:50 AM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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