Matt Lauer handled this too lightly. He didn’t push back or follow up on her bs. For example

“It was just as confusing and delusional as her existence.” I applaud you.

Can I identify as a white male? I’d enjoy the employment benefits and general societal privileges.

She won’t get any of my empathy. She is belittling black women. She thinks that all it takes to be a black woman is to tan your skin, wear shitty wigs, and take black dick. She is scum.

She’s a grifter y’all. A confidence artist, a flimflam man.

Yeah that might fly if she hadn’t sued Howard University for discrimination and claimed it was because she was white. This wasn’t when she was 5 years old, she was applying for a teaching assistant job at Howard. So her story changes to suit the questions being asked.

All I could think of throughout that interview was “Wow, this is a woman who really, REALLY hates her parents.” Between the obvious rejection of their entire family history to declaring another, completely unrelated man to be her dad, you gotta wonder what happened there.

God. Okay, I’m done. What ever happened to that high risk pregnant woman who disappeared/ran away right before her c-section? Is the baby okay? Is she okay? Not saying I want the press digging through her garbage or taking photos of her 24/7, but it would be nice to know if that had a happy ending.

She’s actually cut back already. She and her husband got their water consumption down over 50% and they’re working on making it more. Drought shaming works on those with consciences.

There’s no way to tell from this case because she wasn’t brave enough to say that about herself. Trans people don’t pretend their bodies aren’t the wrong gender.

Excellent explanation of why what she did is wrong — way to summarize it so clearly and concisely.

racial groups are not a monolith. how would one go about living as another “race” without perpetuating racist stereotypes? please don’t use rachel dolezal as an example. you know that “transracialism” was made up by tumblr trolls,right?

You don't have African blood and guts anymore then anyone else. Human phenotypes (the biological differences that kinda makeup race) are not major differences. They are genetically far more minor then sex (the biological difrences tied to gender)

The issue isn’t that she identifies as being black while physically white

Seriously, I have had several white and Asian African American Studies professors and adjuncts. They were teaching. I mean, to bar other ethnicities from studying or teaching a topic implies that African American Studies is solely for black/African Americans. Is Asian Studies solely for Asians? Or Art History only for…

I think that the origin of whatever is going on in her head involves her parents being the kind of people who would out her in public rather than quietly informing her bosses at the NAACP and getting mental health professionals involved. They let this go a loooong time, and then felt this was the way?
Sorry, something…

The difference is making up an entire fake life history and fake family for the purpose of getting employment and acclamation.

I’d argue the difference is that race is a social construct where as gender is a actual thing. There have been brain scans that suggest that trans people’s brains actually work in the same manner as their true gender.

The issue isn’t that she identifies as being black while physically white, it’s the fabricated lies and background she made up to prove ‘her blackness’. Someone who identifies as a woman while physically a man will say they were in the wrong body, but usually don’t make up fabricated lies about their background to…

This is the second time you’re making this comment. Clearly you’re not interested in opposing opinions but I’ll make my piece anyway: I would be okay with this woman being in the NAACP and rocking these hairstyles if she was honest about her racial background. But that wasn’t enough for her. She had to take on the…