Rachel Dolezal: Jenner Story ‘Resonated,’ ‘I Cried’
by Ben Shapiro 17 Jun 2015
On NBC News’ Today show,
newfound media star Rachel Dolezal, the former local NAACP
leader who claims she is black despite her Caucasian ancestry, said she
found inspiration in the story of Bruce Jenner’s transition to womanhood.
“Just yesterday I finally had a chance to read Caitlyn
Jenner’s piece in the magazine and I cried,” Dolezal said of Jenner’s cover
profile in Vanity Fair. “I resonated with some of the themes of
isolation, of being misunderstood.” She added, “Even in dating relationships –
I’m bisexual, I’ve dated men and women – I will intentionally ask, ‘so do you
just date light-skinned women?
What’s your spectrum?’”
Dolezal should find inspiration and strength in Jenner’s
courageous and magical transformation from man to woman, despite the obstacles
of genetics, hormonal development, and a full set of male genetalia. Dolezal’s
own transition from white to black is significantly more credible than Jenner’s
transition from male to female – after all, while skin color is biological
unless changed via surgery (Dolezal has cited Michael Jackson and Sammy Sosa as
skin color converts), race is entirely a social construct. Professor Ian Haney
Lopez of UC
Berkeley states:
There are no genetic characteristics possessed by all Blacks
but not by non-Blacks; similarly, there is no gene or cluster of genes common
to all Whites but not to non-Whites. One’s race is not determined by a single
gene or gene cluster, as is, for example, sickle-cell anemia. Nor are races
marked by important differences in gene frequencies, the rates of appearance of
certain gene types. The data compiled by various scientists demonstrate,
contrary to popular opinon, that intra-group differences exceed inter-group
differences. That is, greater genetic variation exists within the
populations typically labeled Black and White than between these
populations. This finding refutes the supposition that racial divisions reflect
fundamental genetic differences.
By every biological and sociological measure, Dolezal is
more black than Jenner is a female. And yet Rachel Dolezal faces the H8 of the
left. Three days before the Dolezal story broke, The Daily Beast headlined,
“Caitlyn Jenner Is Pissing Off
Feminists and Bigots – Good for Her.” When the Dolezal story broke, The
Daily Beast headlined, “BREAKING: NAACP ‘Stands
Behind’ Fake Black Woman.” “Fake”? What allows The Daily Beast to
discriminate against a transrace woman like Rachel Dolezal while upholding the
inherent value of woman Bruce Jenner?
Life is harder for Rachel Dolezal than Bruce Jenner; at
least to the world, including the president of the United States, Bruce’s story
of womanhood made him courageous. Obama has had no comment in support of
Dolezal. Dolezal’s pain is palpable as media members accuse her of playing
blackface. Matt Lauer specifically asked her whether she had engaged in such
racist mockery. Her answer: “I have a huge issue with blackface. This is not
some freak ‘Birth of a Nation’ mockery blackface performance. This is on a very
real, connected level. I’ve had to go there with the experience, not just a
visible representation.”
When Bruce Jenner told the media that he had known of his
female identification since the age of five, the media nodded along. Yesterday,
Dolezal told the media, “I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon
rather than the peach crayon, and black curly hair. That was how I was
portraying myself… From a very young age I felt a spiritual, visceral,
instinctual connection with black is beautiful.” The media proceeded to laugh
and point. The same media members would never, ever ask Bruce Jenner
whether he is mentally ill or lying about his sex. That, of course, would be
transphobic.
Dolezal’s tragic plight as a transracial woman deserves love
and respect. We have already seen what happens when society rejects transgender
people: they commit suicide and suffer depression. We have even seen what
happens when society rejects transspecies people: US Navy veteran Dennis Avner,
who had at least 14 operations to transform himself into a tiger, complete with
metal tail, never found societal acceptance and killed himself at age 56, adding yet another victim to
the endangered species list. Why should society reject Rachel
Dolezal? Perhaps she and Bruce Jenner can form the first bisexual, transracial,
transgender lesbian power team. And wouldn’t that be a story demonstrating the
tolerance and diversity that makes America a light unto the nations?
NBC News’
Today show
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Note: Today
is an NBC program.
Savannah Guthrie
is a co-host for Today, was the White
House correspondent for the NBC News,
and an attorney at Akin, Gump, Strauss,
Hauer & Feld, LLP.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is a senior counsel for Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, a senior director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund,
an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
David
H. Romer is a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Peter
D. Hart is a teacher at the University
of California, Berkeley, and a pollster for the NBC News.
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News is a subsidiary of NBC.
Today
is an NBC program.
Haas
School of Business is a business school at the University of California, Berkeley.
Richard
C. Blum is a board member for the Haas
School of Business, married to Senator Dianne
Feinstein, a director & former chairman for the CBRE Group, Inc., and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Laura D'Andrea
Tyson is a professor at the Haas
School of Business, a director at the CBRE
Group, Inc., and was a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Robert
D. Haas was a board member for the Haas
School of Business, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
F.
Warren Hellman was a board member for the Haas School of Business, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Henry Louis
Gates Jr. was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), is an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner, and a director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), an Oak Bluffs (MA)
homeowner, a senior director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational
Fund, Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP,
a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a
2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Savannah Guthrie
was an attorney at Akin, Gump, Strauss,
Hauer & Feld, LLP, the White House correspondent for the NBC News, and is a co-host for Today.
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News is a subsidiary of NBC.
Today
is an NBC program.
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