Saturday, June 13, 2015
blackest bish on the planet has achieved her truth!!! accept no substitutes....,
thehutchinsonreport | In
February, 2015, the Spokane, Washington NAACP chapter sought action on
job discrimination and civil rights violations complaints, took on
Comcast, secured legal support for a transgender sexual assault victim,
filed police racial profiling complaints, demanded an investigation of
KKK literature in the area, and an FBI investigation of other hate
crimes, and backed several job discrimination lawsuits. In addition, the
Spokane NAACP branch has aggressive, activist committees on education,
health care, and criminal justice reforms. That month was typical of the
strong work it has done on civil rights.
These
actions plopped Spokane NAACP President Rachel Dolezal squarely in the
hate monger’s bulls-eye. She received threats and hate mail, and there
was a reported break-in at her home. Dolezal was undaunted, "I stand by the work that I do for civil rights, and I should be able to do that work that needs to be done here in Spokane." Dozens agreed with her. They expressed their support at a Spokane City Hall rally in March.
Dolezal
is back on the hot seat again. This time the heat is on not from
unreconstructed bigots but many African-Americans who rail at her for
allegedly being a white woman who claims to be African-American. The
issue ostensibly is that she lied and misrepresented herself as black as
the NAACP leader. But the real issue is whether a non-black is fit to
lead a branch of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. This is a
spurious, silly, and nonsensical concern especially since many of the
NAACP’s original founders were white and Jewish. In its more than a
century of existence, the organization has fought for civil and equal
rights—barring color.
In
that light, Dolezal has done a phenomenal job. She’s taken a small
chapter in a neck of the woods that in times past has been near an area
well-known as a hotbed of white supremacist and armed militia
organizing, and made it a true fighting organization. Dolezal should
ignore the criticism and keep doing the great job she’s done.
She has proven again that actions, not race, are what counts in the civil rights battle.
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June 13, 2015
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