emotions' SOLE controller

Jun 24 2015, 12:41 PM

I would go for the meal which tastes most like Why Rachel Dolezal deserves a break

What the media miss: Rachel Dolezal is human. And she helps people.

In the 1979 movie "The Jerk," Steve Martin introduces us to his character (Navin Johnson) with the classic and hilarious line: "I was born a poor black child." The flashback to his upbringing shows him surrounded by his happy black family singing and dancing on the front porch of their sharecropper's shack in Mississippi.

Despite his lifelong surroundings, Navin is dressed differently, acts out of place and has no sense of rhythm. Whether his awkwardness is due to his being white or being a jerk is unclear, but the joke clearly works because Martin is so immediately seen as instinctively white. Or so we presume.

Sticking with our fictional character, let's imagine a more realistic outcome to this story. Assuming normal aptitudes and abilities, he would talk like the rest of his family, dress like the men around him and sing, dance and clap to the beat. Without a doubt, our Steve Martin look-alike would be "culturally black."

So much so that when he came in contact with white people, they would likely be startled by his black persona, which might generate scorn and discrimination. Yet we have no choice but to be shaped by our culture, until we can choose a culture with which we wish to identify and have shape us, if we have that luxurious option.

Regardless, even though Navin Johnson was indeed born and raised a poor black child, he could never claim to be black because he is not genetically black, he's simply culturally black. Of course the glaring problem with that distinction is that there is no such thing as being genetically black, nor being Caucasian, a scientifically worthless term from the 1700s that, unfortunately, still haunts us.

The genetic race concept for humans does not work, plain and simple, and being identified as black or African-American tells us about your culture, not about your genetics. Anthropologists have been trying to convince people of that fact for decades, with increasing — though still relatively limited — success.

Enter Rachel Dolezal (before you ever heard of her). Her skin color seems to pass for that of a light-skinned black person. She is a chapter president of the NAACP in Spokane, Wash. She graduated from Howard University. Her former husband is black, she has a child who is black. She has four adopted black siblings. Dolezal certainly has more black cultural experiences than most white Americans. Plus, she told us she's black, which, until recently, was either obvious or uninteresting.

Yet her big stumble was how to answer the question: Are you African-American? Gotcha! You're not genetically black, just acting culturally black, even though genetic races do not exist and race is purely a cultural construct.

The professor's viewpoint in support of the woman is not a surprise.

reddgirl64

Jun 24 2015, 12:35 PM

My nephew posted this on his facebook page, and invited the family to view the responses.

Would you believe, a lot of the women made statements like this:

-no body "fixes" his plate, but me,
-I wish a bitch would feed my man,
-if he takes the plate, she brings, it will be some problems at home.
-she ignored her man? What?

So, what would you do? I'll share my answers later.

reddgirl64

Jun 24 2015, 12:35 PM

My nephew posted this on his facebook page, and invited the family to view the responses.

Would you believe, a lot of the women made statements like this:

-no body "fixes" his plate, but me,
-I wish a bitch would feed my man,
-if he takes the plate, she brings, it will be some problems at home.
-she ignored her man? What?

So, what would you do? I'll share my answers later.

cisslybee2012

Jun 24 2015, 12:53 PM

reddgirl64

Jun 24 2015, 12:35 PM

My nephew posted this on his facebook page, and invited the family to view the responses.

Would you believe, a lot of the women made statements like this:

-no body "fixes" his plate, but me,
-I wish a bitch would feed my man,
-if he takes the plate, she brings, it will be some problems at home.
-she ignored her man? What?

So, what would you do? I'll share my answers later.

Thing is,

What they don't see is the fact it's babying.

Coddling a grown man.

As I pointed out before, how men complain about mothers coddling their sons, when in actuality men look for coddling from women everywhere they go. Generally speaking, any woman who doesn't coddle a man is called a man hater.

emotions' SOLE controller

Jun 24 2015, 12:57 PM

cisslybee2012

Jun 24 2015, 12:53 PM

reddgirl64

Jun 24 2015, 12:35 PM

My nephew posted this on his facebook page, and invited the family to view the responses.

Would you believe, a lot of the women made statements like this:

-no body "fixes" his plate, but me,
-I wish a bitch would feed my man,
-if he takes the plate, she brings, it will be some problems at home.
-she ignored her man? What?

So, what would you do? I'll share my answers later.

Thing is,

What they don't see is the fact it's babying.

Coddling a grown man.

As I pointed out before, how men complain about mothers coddling their sons, when in actuality men look for coddling from women everywhere they go. Generally speaking, any woman who doesn't coddle a man is called a man hater.

shut up.

You know nothing.

All you do is steal scholarship and plagiarize folks...just like you did with that Supernal, nonsense, in hoping I'd forget you merely stole it from my post mentioning my daughters' name when I revealed it to you back in 2010.

cisslybee2012

Jun 24 2015, 12:53 PM

reddgirl64

Jun 24 2015, 12:35 PM

My nephew posted this on his facebook page, and invited the family to view the responses.

Would you believe, a lot of the women made statements like this:

-no body "fixes" his plate, but me,
-I wish a bitch would feed my man,
-if he takes the plate, she brings, it will be some problems at home.
-she ignored her man? What?

So, what would you do? I'll share my answers later.

Thing is,

What they don't see is the fact it's babying.

Coddling a grown man.

As I pointed out before, how men complain about mothers coddling their sons, when in actuality men look for coddling from women everywhere they go. Generally speaking, any woman who doesn't coddle a man is called a man hater.

reddgirl64

Jun 24 2015, 12:58 PM

emotions' SOLE controller

Jun 24 2015, 12:57 PM

cisslybee2012

Jun 24 2015, 12:53 PM

reddgirl64

Jun 24 2015, 12:35 PM

My nephew posted this on his facebook page, and invited the family to view the responses.

Would you believe, a lot of the women made statements like this:

-no body "fixes" his plate, but me,
-I wish a bitch would feed my man,
-if he takes the plate, she brings, it will be some problems at home.
-she ignored her man? What?

So, what would you do? I'll share my answers later.

Thing is,

What they don't see is the fact it's babying.

Coddling a grown man.

As I pointed out before, how men complain about mothers coddling their sons, when in actuality men look for coddling from women everywhere they go. Generally speaking, any woman who doesn't coddle a man is called a man hater.

shut up.

You know nothing.

All you do is steal scholarship and plagiarize folks...just like you did with that Supernal, nonsense, in hoping I'd forget you merely stole it from my post mentioning my daughters' name when I revealed it to you back in 2010.

That's great..

emotions' SOLE controller

Jun 24 2015, 12:57 PM

cisslybee2012

Jun 24 2015, 12:53 PM

reddgirl64

Jun 24 2015, 12:35 PM

My nephew posted this on his facebook page, and invited the family to view the responses.

Would you believe, a lot of the women made statements like this:

-no body "fixes" his plate, but me,
-I wish a bitch would feed my man,
-if he takes the plate, she brings, it will be some problems at home.
-she ignored her man? What?

So, what would you do? I'll share my answers later.

Thing is,

What they don't see is the fact it's babying.

Coddling a grown man.

As I pointed out before, how men complain about mothers coddling their sons, when in actuality men look for coddling from women everywhere they go. Generally speaking, any woman who doesn't coddle a man is called a man hater.

shut up.

You know nothing.