This is basically Blackface. Are you cool with Blackface? It's ironic how she claims to have wanted to help the black community in her 6-figure job, while taking everything almost a 100 years back by having people think blackface is okay again.
She lied her way there, took a scholarship for black females when she isnt one, took leadership of a black organization after repeatedly stating that she knew what it was like to be black (when she doesn't), has possibly made false reports of receiving hate mail in a mailbox only she has the key to, and besides all of this, has lied about practically everything, where she grew up, living in a teepee and hunting with bows and arrows, suffering child abuse, having a black son who is actually his brother, having a black father who is actually a stranger, and being black herself.
This is the ultimate act of white privilege because the opposite can't happen; black people and other minorities cant pretend they're white. That wouldn't have stopped the cross burnings in my mother and grandmother's yard, nor would it stop the racism I've experienced growing up, nor would it exclude you from police brutality, or the growing racism in European nations such as east Germany...
While all she would have to do is wipe off that make up.
I can't believe I have to explain this. Tl;dr: It's basically what Ham said
>>21http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/13/us/washington-rachel-dolezal-adopted-brother/index.html
His adopted sister was always interested in African-American culture but it wasn't until about 2011 that he started to notice physical changes.
"There was the gradual darkening of the skin and the hair," he said. "She started molding herself into who she is today."
He said Dolezal's transformation was tantamount to living in "blackface."
"It's kind of a slap in the face to African-Americans because she doesn't know what it's like to be black," said Ezra Dolezal, whose biological mother was white and father half-black. "She's only been African-American when it benefited her. She hasn't been through all the struggles. She's only been African-American the last few years."
Izaiah's petition for emancipation was dropped. In a separate legal action in 2010, the court appointed Rachel Dolezal to be the adopted brother's guardian with the consent of Ruthanne and Lawrence Dolezal.
Ezra Dolezal said he admires his adopted sister's appreciation and advocacy for the black community and culture. But he questions her handling of the race issue.
"I believe that the first most important thing regardless of what a person does is that they have integrity," he said. "Rachel has done really good work fighting against racism and police brutality ... but she went about it the wrong way. She said I was born black. I grew up black and I know what it's like growing up as an African-American in this world. She does not."
Dolezal's time at predominantly black Howard University may have been a major turning point in her transformation, her adopted brother said.
"When she applied they thought she was a black student," he said. "When she came there, they saw she was white and she wasn't treated that well, especially by people that worked there. She probably started developing this kind of dislike for being white and dislike for white people. She used to tell Izaiah ... that all white people are racists. She might have developed some self-hatred."
