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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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackkk; kareemabduljabbar; naacp; race; racheldolezal; spokane
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To: SeekAndFind
Despite all this, you can’t deny that Dolezal has proven herself a fierce and unrelenting champion for African-Americans politically and culturally.

Unadulterated crapolla.

She couldn't have insulted (thinking respectable) blacks more if she had dressed up as Al Jolson in black face and sang Mammie on the sidewalk in front of the NAACP office.

Yeah, massa Rachel, she be good to me. I know she care about me. Jeez, this Bizarro World.

21 posted on 06/16/2015 10:30:27 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: CrazyIvan
I identify as young, handsome, and sexy. Pay no attention to my wife’s silly opinion.

She's "in denial."

22 posted on 06/16/2015 10:31:12 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: SeekAndFind

His rambling comments make no sense. Is he senile?


23 posted on 06/16/2015 10:33:13 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: SeekAndFind

Im also coming out as black, yes IM BLACK..Ive seen every episode of Good Times so I think that makes me black


24 posted on 06/16/2015 10:34:25 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: SeekAndFind
SOMEONE PLEASE START AN "I IDENTIFY AS..." TWITTER CAMPAIGN.

I can't because I don't know what a Twitter campaign is.

Anyway, let's go!

I identify as a millionaire.
I identify as the King of England.
I identify as a wookie.
I identify as a baked potato.
Etc.

25 posted on 06/16/2015 10:35:41 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Beowulf9

He’s kind of ambivalent about it.


26 posted on 06/16/2015 10:36:32 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“When the identity becomes the accomplishment....”


27 posted on 06/16/2015 10:38:22 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: ChildOfThe60s

This guy knows about trans-identification, having been born Lew Alcindor, the son of a New York City cop, not some exotic Muslim-African. (Although he played a mean game of basketball, which I guess ought to have been called cricket.)

So in the end he’s virtually forced to give the nod to what Dolezal did. He’s groping around for a degree of irony that would perform the coup de grace via reductio ad absurdam, and can’t find it. Not even in the “shorty” schtick. When everything’s absurd, nothing’s absurd.


28 posted on 06/16/2015 10:42:04 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s awfully white of you Kareem.


29 posted on 06/16/2015 10:46:45 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: SeekAndFind
My kids are going to identify as African-American or American Indian when they apply to college so they can go wherever they want, and on a full ride.

I see benefits from this whole trans-racial thing.

30 posted on 06/16/2015 10:56:31 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: South40; Ellendra

LOL! We have a cat who alternately considers herself a lion if another animal is on *her* porch, a puppy when she wants cuddled, or a person when she wants to run the show.


31 posted on 06/16/2015 10:57:13 AM PDT by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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To: SeekAndFind
J to the R O C feels yah'

32 posted on 06/16/2015 10:59:17 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I got a very tight perm this morning and learning to talk ghetto. So I am black. As of this morning.


33 posted on 06/16/2015 11:06:57 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl (the left has redefined the word 'racism' to mean any disagreement with any liberal about any topic)
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To: SeekAndFind

Amazing what this country obsesses over. Shows a deep-seated collective neurosis.


34 posted on 06/16/2015 11:08:24 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: JustaCowgirl

35 posted on 06/16/2015 11:09:10 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mase

Teach them to claim they were born in a teepee and abused as children. Then find a random older black man to take a picture with and claim he’s their father. It’s so simple.


36 posted on 06/16/2015 11:12:10 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl (the left has redefined the word 'racism' to mean any disagreement with any liberal about any topic)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is this another argument for “Just love people, you hater!” things?
A dog is a dog, you can’t call it a cat. A man is a man, you can’t call him a woman.
It is quite clear.


37 posted on 06/16/2015 11:12:48 AM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: vpintheak

“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”

— Abraham Lincoln


38 posted on 06/16/2015 11:19:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Beowulf9

The death of objective truth.. An article by Elizabeth Scalia ‘Transracial... ‘ tells it well. Pls read. BeGood.. Ross


39 posted on 06/16/2015 11:26:58 AM PDT by RossB
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To: Daveinyork
She doesn’t need to be black enough for affirmative action. She’s female enough.

Are you sure???

40 posted on 06/16/2015 11:37:12 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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