(June 8, 2017 at 3:28 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I presume you are talking about Rachel Dolezal. I don’t know all the specifics other than the headlines. It appears she was presenting herself as something she wasn’t in other to attain something she could not otherwise get from a group of people for whom certain criteria were important. It seems to me that Ms. Dolezal engaged in a kind of fraud but that is between her and the people she was apparently trying to fool.
I wasn't talking about her, but she is a very extreme example. After being caught out as not being black AT ALL, she's told the world that she chooses to "identify as black" and that since she grew up around a lot of black people, and currently has a lot of black people in her life, she's justified as doing that. In other words, she thinks its possible to be a black woman trapped in a white woman's body or something!
I believe she "came out" shortly after Bruce Jenner decided he was a woman.
