No new chapter this week -- I've been preparing for an out-of-state convention and it's eaten up all my time -- but given recent current events I do have one tidbit to share.
The tidbit in question? This story -- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3123965/The-white-girl-posed-black-campaign-against-racism-story-brutally-lays-bare-hypocrisy-liberal-America.html
If you don't feel like clicking the link, it's about the recent controversy regarding Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who for years passed herself off as black via makeup, hairstyles, and faking her own family history. She still claims to be black despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, including her (white) parents speaking out to the media. And needless to say, media outlets have been having a field day with this.
All I can say is... Eden Newman, is that you?
Seriously, though, when I picked up Revealing Eden for sporking purposes, I never thought that there'd come a time when something would happen in real life that the book could apply to. Because even though I've heard stories about black people trying to pass off as white to avoid persecution, it's almost never the other way around.
Unlike Eden, however, it appears Rachel isn't lying about her ethnicity to escape persecution. Some claim it's because she wants to champion the cause of African-Americans in the US and feels she can only do so as a black person. Others say it's because her parents adopted black children and she wants the attention that they get. Still others say she's just delusional, and bring up comparisons to the recent Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner deal.
My thoughts? I feel this woman's doing it for attention. There are people who will seek to get attention by any means possible, even if it's negative -- why else do Internet trolls exist, after all. She sees that black people get a lot of attention, both positive and negative, and she adapted a black persona in order to get some of that attention for herself. And to be honest, I don't feel sorry for her years of lying about her past coming back to blow up in her face. Harsh, but when you make your bed, you have to sleep in it.
Okay, done for now... see you all next week. Hope to have a new chapter sporked by then.
I guess the one good thing about bad movies and bad books is that we can still learn lessons from them--mainly, what NOT to do, so we don't make the same mistakes it made. Instead of trying to be something your not, just don't be a racist jerk, period. :/
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