Hey Jidoe,

I am sorry I expressed myself badly, I actually liked most what you wrote (though I absolutely disagree with your assertion about feminists and transgender people)

Quote Originally Posted by Aristotle View Post
I don't see how this can be considered a "simple case of racism." Who is being racist here?
Again, sorry for not explaining his position better. He thinks what Dolezal did was racist, end of story.

I finally found an article that articulates many of the thoughts that are running through my head. I'll preface it with a quote from a different article in The Atlantic

Kalief Browder died, like Renisha McBride died, like Tamir Rice died, because they were born and boxed into the lowest cavity of that hierarchy. If not for those deaths, if not for the taking of young boys off the streets of New York, and the pinning of young girls on the lawns of McKinney, Texas, the debate over Rachel Dolezal's masquerade would wither and blow away, because it would have no real import nor meaning...

"I think race is oppression," writes Richard Seymour, "and nothing else." Indeed. It is the oppression that matters. In that sense, I care not one iota what Rachel Dolezal does, nor what she needs to label herself. I care solely, totally and completely about what this society does to my son, because of its need to label him.
Unraveling the Rachel Dolezal controversy