Yeah I’m not convinced what she’s done has been at the expense of less privileged people. But I will acknowledge that we probably would not be talking about her if she was not the head of an NAACP chapter. If every other detail was the same but that facet, we wouldn’t have cared as much. That being said her…

Damn this is such a masterful deconstruction!

Nah I don’t think anyone anywhere is praising her. Racist (white) folk probably don’t understand why she’d want to be a “n-word” anyway. Black folk are generally pissed too.

I hear ya, being black in the US is fukkin tuff, probably even more so as a woman.

In the larger scheme of things, is there any benefit from this situation for African Americans or race relations in general?

This issue really got you fired up huh? I can’t excuse her fraud, but besides that i’m keeping an open mind about possible identity issues

To me this is sorta like those kids who are so into Anime they try to live as one of those characters.

Black people on Twitter are easily offended esp. on racial issues. Fucking DJ Charlemagne Tha God (while not being the emperor of black people, is a very influential mouthpiece), found it highly amusing when someone said “race was a social construct”. Remember how pissed black Twitter got when Raven Symone said not to…

Exactly!!! Thank you!!

Give ‘em some credit, they really tried to be objective in this article. Its a start

Yup, and if you notice many posters are digging deep into their ideological bags to give lengthy explanations as to why she’s wrong and that we can’t compare this to Caitlyn Jenner.

I hear ya, but humans just aren’t that smart yet, to have a test that accurately pinpoints these “gendered” differences in the brain. Science always stress that the brain is the least understood organ in the body. Richard Dawkins said that understanding how the brain “houses” the mind and how this came about is…

MK, don’t take this the wrong way, but it’s inconsistent to say you can change your sex to suite your identity “medically” but the same cannot be done with race if you “exclude tanning etc”. Why exclude tanning (which anyone can do) when you’ve included medical procedures (which are far more extreme)?

Oh race is absolutely a social construct, even the racist scientists of the early 20th century came to that conclusion. Gender seems to be more complicated.

You can’t have gender as a social construct and still believe in “male” and “female” brains. This is why 2nd wavers generally don’t get behind the trans cause, it’s incongruent with a central tenant of their ideology.

This only works if we agree that gender is not a social construct, coz race sure as hell is a construct

You could literally apply this entire argument to trans people

Lol. Even shitlords need safe spaces. Just ignore ‘em is what I says

Not really anything wrong with it, but it’s probably something you say at private dinners, not in the company of reporters

I hear ya, but c’mon, modelling is a profession that centers on appearance, cardiology and most other professions are not.