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Anyone who looks at her can see she is white. If the NAACP leadership wants to give her a high position, simple due diligence would tell them she is probably not black. The fact that they did it, despite this tells me that they don't have a problem. If that's the case, no one else should have a problem either. If she wants to call herself black, white, red, yellow, or green that's her business.
Heh so you think the Afro and the day-glo orange DIDNT fool them? :-P
In all seriousness though (despite that I burst out laughing every time I see her LOL) this is actually pretty common amongst whites. Especially in low minority places like Spokane. You ever look at the supposed "Indians" and "Blacks" they have representing these identity type organizations in less diverse areas? They look damned near white because most likely they ARE white or mostly white. It usually goes like this: white kid starts out learning about and idealizing native Americans, then he digs and digs and learns he MIGHT have a great great grandmother who was a Navajo. Then the white kid starts running around calling himself 'Heinz 57'. And if it goes to the extreme, you end up with nuts like this woman who go all the way up to orange makeup, a fake afro, and heading up the local NAACP Hahahah But yeah, its a white thing. Whites have always done this as long as Ive been here. Its some kind of identity crisis they seem to face.
Anyone who looks at her can see she is white. If the NAACP leadership wants to give her a high position, simple due diligence would tell them she is probably not black. The fact that they did it, despite this tells me that they don't have a problem. If that's the case, no one else should have a problem either. If she wants to call herself black, white, red, yellow, or green that's her business.
The only time anyone ever investigated me that thoroughly was for a TOP SECRET government security clearance. That would go far beyond "due diligence" for a normal company. Race is not a hiring factor for the NAACP, so why would they make a special effect to confirm it?
And, no, you can't always tell "white" by appearance. There have always been descendants of Americans held as slaves who have appeared white (in fact, Northern whites traveling in the South during the slave era reported it even back then).
It's more often gone the other way. If it had been advantageous for her in her time, actress Carol Channing could have "claimed" her blackness.
Anyone who looks at her can see she is white. If the NAACP leadership wants to give her a high position, simple due diligence would tell them she is probably not black. The fact that they did it, despite this tells me that they don't have a problem. If that's the case, no one else should have a problem either. If she wants to call herself black, white, red, yellow, or green that's her business.
I have seen MANY people who identify as Black look like her.
I don't think people are upset with the fact that she's pretending to be black. You can identify yourself as what ever you want. The main problem is the fabrications of her past that she has been spouting. Saying she was born in a teepee, raised in South Africa, used to be whipped like a slave by her parents, suffered racial profiling and hate crimes due to being black, and having black "sons" that in fact her adopted brothers.
These are the main issues that will land this woman in a boatload of trouble.
I have seen MANY people who identify as Black look like her.
And I've seen many people who identified as white that made me think, "Hmm....."
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