Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Let Rachel Dolezal Be as Black as She Wants to Be

TIME ^ | 06/16/2015 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

[ChildOfThe60s]

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.

[Steely Tom]

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

She's "in denial."

[Kirkwood]

His rambling comments make no sense. Is he senile?

[Sarah Barracuda]

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

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

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.

[HiTech RedNeck]

He’s kind of ambivalent about it.

[onedoug]

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

[HiTech RedNeck]

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.

[Night Hides Not]

That’s awfully white of you Kareem.

[Mase]

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.

[knittnmom]

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.

[Organic Panic]

J to the R O C feels yah'

[JustaCowgirl]

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

[I want the USA back]

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

[dfwgator]

[JustaCowgirl]

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.

[vpintheak]

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.

[SeekAndFind]

“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

[RossB]

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

[rjsimmon]

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

Are you sure???