NAACP leader outed as white by parents

This is a hilarious story, IMO. It's certainly novel enough to have gotten international attention. The local head of NAACP, somewhere between College and now, decided to go all in saying she was black.

Taken alone, that's an interesting story implicating the idea of race as a social construct, the benefits of being an underdog, etc. But she lied about racial incidents in her past, and in general seems to have been more crazy than anything.

Freepers are also amused. But more because they can use this odd story to rant about black people and transgenders. And add a bunch of clearly false anecdotes of their own:

Billthedrill seems to think white privilege is something you can see, which is the opposite of the point:

Instantly her entire emotional world changes from a position of proud membership in an oppressed class to the crushing weight of 400 years of guilt. Fortunately for her she has her White Privilege to comfort her. Think of it: now she can get any job she wants instead of being stuck in a six-figure job in a hate factory, bankers will be falling over themselves to give her free money, and she can steal her entire living from the sweat of the brow of the minority classes! Gosh, it’s sure great to be white.

miss marmelstein tells a totally real story:

A liberal friend was upset with me for rolling my eyes at his new “transgendered” male cousin named Ralph. (She was once Tiffany.)

I said to him: so when the first person claims to be a salmon, will you believe him? He went ballistic at me.

And he’s...ahem...a scientist.

VanDeKoik follows up with something even more true:

I once put it to a lib that if a white person tanned their skin and wore an afro wig, would that make them black.

They sputtered and screamed and could not answer.

Now we can see if they are willing to accept this person’s “transracial” identity.

Sit back and watch the fun!

fireman15's story starts plausible, but then he keeps piling it on...

One of the guys I was hired with many years ago was suppose to be black. He had facial features that made him look like he was part black and he was very athletic, but he had red hair and freckles. When the black guys from the union came down to meet him, they were asking, “Where is the brother?” When he was pointed out... one of them said, “That ain’t no Brother!”

The guy had been a state swimming champion and football star at the high school that I graduated from. He had gone all through an expensive private university getting grants and scholarships intended for a black person. He came to the fire department from the police department. He was doing great getting through his probationary training. He had a terrific sense of humor and was very popular.

One day he vanished from the department and for quite a while no one seemed to know what had happened. One of our chiefs told me later that his real goal had been to join the FBI. When the FBI did his background check they found that he had been telling everyone that his great-grandmother was black, but that she was not. None of his ancestors were black. No organization he had defrauded wanted to file charges and publicize their lack of scrutiny.

This information was passed on to the fire department and they quietly got rid of him. He then went back to work for the police department but when they found out they let him go also. He then went to work for an outlying small town police department.

At some point he had started lying about being black and taking advantage of affirmative action programs. At least at that time basically no one verified that people were telling the truth about their heritage for these types of programs. I am not sure that they do to this day.

The Unknown Republican tries for a lesson, but derails in birthertown:

By all standards (culture and appearance) I am white. Recently I found out that my great great grandmother on my paternal side was a black slave (now verified by DNA testing). This in theory makes me more “African American” than Barry Sotero. The point is that these labels are completely meaningless and a way to keep blacks on the Democratic Plantation.

max americana keeps it simplistic:

White is a color too...

I said that the first year I was on FR. The “C” in NAACP is racist for not even considering whites.

TexasCajun quotes a definition and then totally misreads it in the very next sentence.

Just like Gender no longer means sex.

Ethnicity no longer means race.

Ethnicity:

An ethnic group or ethnicity is a socially defined category of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural or national experience.

-Google-

Its all about how one self-identifies we are told.

No idea what Squantos is talking about, but it sounds horrifying and racist.

I’m thinking this mud shark just got beached right proper and decided to stay..... just my opinion of course.