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Originally Posted by dsjj251
If you feel the article was boring and pointless, that should have been your statement the entire time, not claiming she was racist because you didnt understand fully what she was saying.
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With all due respect, I don't know why you're assuming your interpretation of what she is saying is correct.
She started off by saying she felt "shame" when she first saw the results. "Shame" because her family was wrong? No, that's more likely be the "disorient" she said she felt simultaneously. Why would she feel "shame" that her family was incorrect? It's not shameful to be wrong about your family history, especially considering all they had apparently was word of mouth. Word of mouth, especially when it comes to claiming NA heritage, is notoriously wrong amongst many American families. Straight up, many who claim to be part NA simply aren't. At all.
She mentions "shame" second, after "disorient." Then she goes onto say, "Which brings me to the rationale behind
the second emotion the results unexpectedly surfaced [the shame]:
I found out I was White. Not just 13% White, my husband’s percentage when he too completed the ancestry composition report.
Not just 25% White, since the average amount of DNA in an African American’s genome traced back to West Africa is about 75%.
I was damn near 1/3 White. That’s significant."
She just connected "shame" to being white. She said it right there, posters here aren't assuming.
You may be right that, in the end, she isn't actually ashamed, because/but she completely contradicts herself at the end by saying, "While I’m no Rachel Dolezal, I must accept the fact I do have White ancestors.
It’s nothing to be ashamed of, but quite honestly, the road to acceptance will not be an easy one for me to travel."
As I just said, it's a huge contradiction. Because she just admitted that she felt shame finding out she's part white, and she finished that very sentence I bolded by saying "the road to acceptance will not be an easy one for me to travel." So clearly she isn't too happy to be part white. She makes this quite clear. She wants to "accept it," but the very need to "accept it" insinuates it's something she's not happy about.
And this statement - "As inappropriate (but honest) as it sounds,
I’d discovered I had the so-called “superior” race running through my veins, and
never before had I felt so inferior" -
this literally is racism. This is the definition of racism - feeling one race is "superior" to others. She said it, not us.
I could be totally misinterpreting her, and you
may be right, but I think your argument is far more of an uphill battle than mine (and others') given her words.